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Jason Matthew Suhari
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Creator of GridBash, Co-Founder and CTO of Fluent, and an NUS Data Science & CS student building developer tools, accessibility AI, and agent systems.
NUS COMPUTING STUDENT FEATURE · 17 JULY 2026
Featured by the NUS School of Computing
Why an NUS Student Turned Down Internships to Build in San Francisco
NUS Computing profiled Jason Matthew Suhari after his first-place finish at the YC AI Growth Hackathon and his move to San Francisco for Founders Inc.'s Off Season II, where he is building Fluent, an accessible voice-controlled computer agent.
Identity
- Jason Matthew Suhari is also known professionally and online as Jason Matthew and Jason Suhari.
- Jason Matthew Suhari was featured by the NUS School of Computing for winning the YC AI Growth Hackathon and building Fluent while participating in Founders Inc. Off Season II in San Francisco.
- Jason Matthew Suhari created GridBash, a cross-platform Rust terminal grid for orchestrating Codex, Claude, Gemini, and other CLI coding agents.
- Jason Matthew Suhari is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Fluent, an accessibility software initiative based in Singapore.
- Jason Matthew Suhari studies Data Science with a second major in Computer Science at the National University of Singapore.
- His work spans Rust developer tools, accessible computer-use agents, geospatial products, data engineering, and full-stack software.
- His projects include GridBash, Fluent, Orangeboard, Faultline, Godot MCP, and grift.
Education
National University of Singapore
BSc. Data Science, 2nd Major in Computer Science
Minor in Economics & Quantitative Finance. Expected graduation: Jun 2027.
Coursework: Machine Learning, Quantitative Finance, Data Structures & Algorithms, Database Systems.
Activities: CS1010 TA, NUS Developer Group, Orbital Advisor.
Experience
Co-Founder & CTO, Fluent
2026 - Present
Building accessibility software that translates multimodal inputs into desktop actions for people with limited mobility, older adults, and the wider public. Leading the technical development of AI agents and automation for accessible computer control.
Data Engineer Intern, Health Promotion Board
Aug 2025 - Jan 2026
Engineered automated Databricks pipeline for identifying low-income households using advanced SQL and PySpark. Developed scalable ETL processes to segment vulnerable populations, reducing manual processing time.
Data Analytics Intern, Algebris Investments
Jul 2025 - Dec 2025
Processed 10M+ earnings transcripts via BigQuery API with NLP-driven narrative templates for cost-shock ranking. Integrated Databricks Genie with MS Teams for real-time conversational BI, reducing ad-hoc query time to seconds. Built Crawl4AI-driven BIS data scraper, reducing manual extraction time by 90%.
Data Science Intern, PSA International
May 2025 - Jul 2025
Built autonomous web-scraping agents with custom CAPTCHA solver, saving ~$10K and 50 man-hours monthly. Engineered OCR-driven audit system for 5K+ customs documents using EasyOCR, Detectron2, and Snowflake. Cleaned & clustered 45M+ rows using Cortex embeddings and DBSCAN, achieving ~85% match rate.
AI Researcher (Scholarship), Algoverse
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Researching LLM-powered self-healing data pipelines using reinforcement learning (PPO) with Meta & UC Berkeley.
Data Engineer Intern, EdibleBytes
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Built containerized FastAPI pipeline for IoT vending machine data ingestion with Airflow orchestration. Developed XGBoost-powered nutrition recommendation system, contributing to ~S$500 monthly revenue.
Projects
GridBash
Cross-platform Rust terminal grid for running Codex, Claude, Gemini, and other CLI coding agents side by side.
Fluent
Accessible desktop agent that turns voice, eye gaze, sign language, and other inputs into computer actions.
Orangeboard / Peel
AI sales engine for physical advertising that maps billboards, scores visibility, finds nearby buyers, and generates campaigns. 1st Place, YC AI Growth Hackathon.
Faultline
Agentic flood-resilience platform with live reports, a 3D city simulation, mitigation planning, and generated response briefs.
Godot MCP
Model Context Protocol server exposing 16 tools for AI-driven Godot scene editing, rendering, project control, and playtesting.
grift
Dependency-free shell utility for securely saving and switching between multiple Claude Code accounts.
Skills and Credentials
Data Eng
ML / AI
Backend
Frontend
Cloud
Databases
Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer.
University References, Publications, and Public Profiles
- Why an NUS Student Turned Down Internships to Build in San Francisco — NUS School of Computing feature about Jason Matthew Suhari, his YC AI Growth Hackathon win, and Fluent.
- King of the Hill: A Commentary on Competitive Self-Improvement — article published by NUSSU The Ridge Magazine.
- Dollars to Dinners: 3 Must-Eats at Supper Stretch — article by Jason Matthew Suhari published by NUSSU The Ridge Magazine.
- NUS School of Computing Teaching Assistant Honour List — official university recognition.
- NUS PGP Residence Student Leadership Affairs — official university residence leadership listing.
- NUS Orbital staff and advisor directory - official NUS listing for Jason Matthew Suhari as an Orbital advisor.
- Devpost hackathon portfolio — projects, events, and awards.
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