Artificial intelligence and machine-learning engineering.
As AI moves from being a cool gimmick to everyday necessity, I want to be the person who both pushes the technical boundaries and advocates for ethical, human-focused deployment, ensuring this technology improves lives at scale rather than just being impressive on paper.
I'm Victor. Class of 2027 student at D-PREP International School, based in Thailand.
My focus is AI and machine-learning engineering. As AI moves from being a cool gimmick to everyday necessity, I want to be the person who both pushes the technical boundaries and advocates for ethical, human-focused deployment, ensuring this technology improves lives at scale rather than just being impressive on paper.
In practice, that has looked like shipping an autonomous hydroponic-monitoring robot driven by a locally hosted vision-language model, leading the largest student-run event in my school's history as Student Body President, and running REKEdit, a video editing and creative-direction business that has crossed THB 800,000+ in revenue serving creators with a combined 60M+ subscriber reach.
What ties it together: I like building real things for real users, and I like the people work that goes around them. Recruiting and mentoring teams, finding the through-line that makes a project worth doing, then putting in the hours to make sure it delivers.
How would you describe a good leader?
“A good leader is someone who isn't afraid to take initiative and turn ideas into reality. They lead by example, showing that responsibility and service are important to making a real and impactful difference.”
What change do you want to create?
“I want to help create an environment where students would stop waiting for instructions to make a change and start taking actual ownership of their community. I hope to leave a legacy where student-led impact is the norm, and not the exception.”
Full transparency on GPAs across all three high school years, PSAT progression, AP scores, and rigorous current and planned coursework.
PSAT improvement of +180 points across three years (1080, then 1210, then 1260). First SAT planned in Grade 11 to 12.
Selected builds across hardware, embedded systems, and full-stack software. Utilizing AI in many different ways.
Cable-suspended camera platform that finds ArUco-marked plants, snaps photos, and pipes them through a locally hosted vision-language model into a live dashboard.
Solo end-to-end show production. DMX lighting cues, projection-mapped visuals, custom ESP32-based DMX controllers, all synced to a music timeline.
Semester-long collaborative build. ESP32 with Pico W control, reverse-engineered smart boiler and VEX V5 motors, web UI.
Real-time leaderboard and announcement system for the school-wide Theme Week event. Built solo in under two weeks, virtually free to operate.
Elected and appointed roles across two schools, organized below by elected positions, the flagship events I led, and other activities I sustain.
D-PREP International School
Elected to lead all student councils, represent the student body to administration, mediate between students and staff, and serve as the primary student voice in school-wide decisions. Oversaw Open World, Theme Week, and a new slate of student-led initiatives.
Highest student leadership position
D-PREP International School
Elected by student vote to lead the council during my first year at D-PREP, which required trust and credibility built fast. Ran council meetings, represented student voice to administration, oversaw Open World and Theme Week 2024, and mentored younger student leaders.
Elected in first year at the school
Raffles American School Bangkok
Elected by house members for a year-long leadership role: representing the house to staff, organizing meetings and activities, leading at Sports Day and inter-house events, and driving overall house spirit and identity.
Multiple Sports- and Spirit-Day wins
D-PREP International School
Led D-PREP Theme Week 2025 as overall organizer: daily activity lineup, recess challenges, house competitions, MCing key events, plus the custom live leaderboard platform that kept points, rankings, and announcements in sync across students, teachers, and display screens.
Designed and built the live leaderboard platform powering the week
D-PREP International School
Main organizer of D-PREP's Orientation Day. Designed welcome sessions, ice-breakers, and team-building activities to break down grade-level and friend-group barriers, and acted as a direct mentor for incoming students navigating an unfamiliar environment.
Welcomed the entire secondary school back
D-PREP International School
Overall student lead for Open World 2025. Contributed across multimedia (posters, videos, social), performances and emcee work, finance, and operations and logistics, while connecting between teams. Featured by a regional influencer.
Overall student lead under Student Council President role
D-PREP International School
Lead organizer for Theme Week 2024 as Student Council President. Planned the activity lineup, led events on the ground, coordinated with teachers on scheduling and scoring, and ran daily scoring and announcements while participating as a member of my own house.
Lead organizer, year before building the leaderboard platform
D-PREP International School
Committee leadership role at D-PREP's internal MUN. Setting agenda, moderating debate, guiding delegates through procedure, managing motions and resolutions, and helping run the wider conference.
Hosted closed conference. 20+ delegates and reporters.
Thai Model United Nations
National-level conference. Researched country policy, drafted opening speeches and position papers, built blocs across multiple days of caucusing, and contributed to a passed committee resolution.
Passed resolution
D-PREP Athletics. AISAA and BISAL leagues.
Contributed to a team playoff run and led communication during competitive matches across AISAA and BISAL leagues.
Playoff run. Led on-court communication.
Raffles American School Bangkok
Founded the yearbook club and led design end-to-end. Produced and shipped the school's first printed yearbook.
Produced and sold 80 print copies of the inaugural yearbook
Raffles American School Bangkok
Directed the school's haunted house fundraiser. Set design, scare choreography, and logistics, ending with THB 12,000 raised for the student-activities fund.
Raised THB 12,000 for the student-activities fund
A selection of the video work: school film projects, event openers, leadership videos, and content for my own AP courses. Click any thumbnail to play.
Major step up from the prior year. A real-life to video transition: students live recording and performing an initial song to catch the audience off guard, followed by a 3D animation from outside the universe down to earth, into a drone shot flying to the school, where I am on the roof to welcome everyone. Fully edited, written, and shot by me, with my teacher Mr. Gareth helping with the welcome shot.
As Student Body President for the 2025-26 school year, I made a leadership video to showcase the different councils students could join, encouraging signups and participation. Fully written and edited by me.
AP Biology video essay using visual storytelling to walk through genetics before Mendel. Fully edited, written, and (semi) voiced over by me. First time experimenting with AI voice models that I locally trained to mimic my voice and voice the entire video.
Opener for Open World 2025, designed to encapsulate attendees and present the elements that took place with every student in the lead-up to the event. First time experimenting with drones as a different point of view for storytelling. Primarily edited and shot by me, with assistance on writing and storyline.
Showcase piece for Open World 2025 designed to bring the community closer around one simple question. Shot, written, and edited by me.
Visual arts performance demonstrating my physical artwork and its integration into an abstract video. Recorded, edited, and music remixed by me. Brings different elements of art together into one piece.
Honors English film project showcasing the class's ability to write, plan, and shoot a film. I worked primarily on script writing and videography, aiding the storyline and shooting and editing the film.
English language project on Netflix, its upcomings, and its eventual downfall. Highlights my video-essay abilities in content writing and editing.
Beyond school: a video editing studio with real revenue, and creative-direction work for established creators.
Founded 2024
Online content production: video editing and creative direction.
Started by creating my own YouTube channels and learning how creators I admired edited their content. After a couple of years on the tools, I freelanced on Fiverr selling editing services, then shifted to running my own business, REKEdit, working directly with clients on visual FX, video stat analysis, and AI-assisted workflows.
Beyond REKEdit
Beyond editing, I really enjoy the creative direction side of YouTube: figuring out how to make captivating content viewers love. I learned with the best, including one of MrBeast's ex-retention specialists, and worked with YouTube-based companies on the actual pipeline behind their videos: directing, recording, and analysing statistics to understand the new age of digital content.
2025
Thailand
Worked with Kistler Instruments Thailand to learn about the mechanical engineering behind industry measurement systems and sensors. The team walked me through the products Kistler sells to other manufacturers and showed how sensors play a major role in manufacturing, particularly on the automotive side.
During that time, Kistler had a showcase at a large manufacturing expo. I worked alongside the specialists on the sales floor, learning how to explain, demonstrate, and sell the products to industry visitors, and saw firsthand how the sales and engineering sides of the business work together.
Selected academic work. Topics span U.S. politics, blockchain, biology, and an AP Lang research project.
2025
Independent written argument analysing how restorative nostalgia (a longing for an idealised past) shapes contemporary U.S. political rhetoric and policy framing.
2025
Research project arguing for more affordable snack options on campus, including pricing analysis, vendor research, and a final presentation video.
2024
Twelve-page paper exploring the risks and opportunities of blockchain technology and cryptocurrency, covering technical fundamentals, market dynamics, and regulatory considerations.
Grade 9
Biology evolution project on the evolutionary history of the dromedary camel, including phylogeny, adaptations, and ecology.
Principal, Surat Thani International School
Former principal during my time at Surat Thani International School.
Grade 8 Teacher, Surat Thani International School
My Grade 8 teacher at Surat Thani International School.
