NAT WONG // SINGAPORE → STANFORD, CA

Systems thinker
across domains.

Republic of Singapore Air Force officer, engineer, and incoming Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA candidate. I work at the seams where defense systems, hardware, machine learning, and product thinking overlap — because the same discipline of tracing inputs to outcomes runs through all of them.

01.29°N, 103.79°E → 37.42°N, 122.16°W
SCROLL
THE THROUGHLINE

Four domains, one operating pattern.

Different fields, same underlying question: how does a system behave under real conditions, and where does it break?

NODE / 01

Air Defense Systems

Commanded a Flight of approximately 30 personnel operating the Aster 30 ground-based air defense system as a Flight Commander in 163 Squadron, Republic of Singapore Air Force — real-time systems where detection, decision, and response have to work under pressure, every time.

OPERATIONS
NODE / 02

Hardware & Silicon

Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University, with a semester at ETH Zürich — grounding in how systems are built from the transistor up, not just how they're used.

ENGINEERING
NODE / 03

ML & Intelligent Systems

Ongoing interest in how machine learning systems make decisions under uncertainty — the same core problem as air defense, at a different scale and with different stakes.

RESEARCH
NODE / 04

Product & Business

Incoming MBA candidate, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Class of 2028 — translating systems fluency into product judgment: what to build, for whom, and why it matters.

STANFORD, CLASS OF 2028
ABOUT

My career started in a role where the cost of a bad system was measured in the worst possible terms — commanding an air defense unit means the feedback loop between decision and consequence is immediate and unforgiving. That's the lens I've carried into everything since: engineering degrees that taught me how systems are built, and now a Stanford MBA aimed at learning how to decide what gets built at all.

I'm drawn to problems that sit at intersections — hardware and software, human judgment and automated systems, operational discipline and product ambition. I'm currently exploring product management in tech, with a particular interest in the infrastructure, ML tooling, and platform layers where technical depth and product judgment both matter.

TIMELINE

How I got here.

2026–2028

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Incoming MBA candidate, Class of 2028.

2019–2026

Republic of Singapore Air Force

Flight Commander, 163 Squadron — Aster 30 ground-based air defense system. Led a Flight of approximately 30 personnel.

2015–2019

Northwestern University

Awarded the Public Service Commission Scholarship — Singapore's competitive national scholarship, a prerequisite for the Singapore Armed Forces Scholarship also received — to pursue Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Engineering. Exchange semester at ETH Zürich, Fall 2018.

PROJECTS

Build log.

> system initialized
> projects queue: empty
> status: first entries in progress