Singtel Cyber Security
Business Analyst
Business and market analysis, automation, BI dashboards, and Salesforce integration.
About / Vairavan Shanmugam
Research grounded
in practice.
PhD student in Management (Real Estate)
NUS Business School
I bring together housing research, hands-on technical work, cross-functional leadership and public communication. My path has taken me through banking, telecommunications and real estate, and now into doctoral research with a global perspective and an Asian focus.
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From a business question
to evidence people can use.
My work connects analytical depth with the practical demands of building, leading and explaining. These are the capabilities I bring into research and collaboration.
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Housing & real estate analysis
I work with transaction records to examine prices, realised returns, tenure and buyer decisions. My experience includes market research across Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, alongside detailed studies of Singapore housing.
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Geospatial analysis
I connect property records with their surroundings: transport, schools and neighbourhood amenities. My master’s thesis used approximately 1.5 million transaction rows to examine geospatial metrics for property-price prediction.
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Data systems & automation
I build the tools around an analysis as well as the analysis itself: data pipelines, reporting workflows, maps and dashboards. Earlier work in banking and telecommunications developed my experience in reconciliation, business intelligence and integration.
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Cross-functional technical leadership
At Ohmyhome, I led cross-functional teams, guiding implementation and driving technical delivery. I worked across business needs, data and systems, connecting the people involved and helping turn requirements into working solutions.
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Research communication
I translate complex analysis for different audiences: listeners on CNA radio, viewers of Money Mind, community audiences, visiting students, professionals and housing representatives. The format changes; the need to explain assumptions and limitations stays.
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Built through practice.
My experience spans banking, telecommunications and real estate. At Ohmyhome, I progressed through three roles, moving from market analysis into the Founder’s Office and then technical integration and team leadership.
Ohmyhome
March 2023 — July 2026Tech Integration and Data Insights Specialist
I led cross-functional teams and worked across data strategy, dashboards, data models and technical integration. My responsibilities included guiding implementation, coordinating developers and external partners, and connecting technical delivery with business priorities.
Founder's Office, Data Analyst
Real estate research for Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines; property-price models, leadership dashboards, competitor and financial analysis, and partnerships.
Marketing Data Analyst
Market research, business reporting, competitor analysis, and tools for analysing market data.
The foundations
Standard Chartered Bank
Data Analyst (Contract)
Client analysis, reconciliation automation, and management dashboards.
Jones Lang LaSalle
HR Intern
Automated file-processing work across more than 100,000 files.
Singapore Police Force
Staff Assistant (National Service)
Leading the people.
Connecting the work.
At Ohmyhome, I led cross-functional teams to turn business needs into working technical solutions. My role grew beyond building analyses and tools myself to coordinating people across functions, guiding implementation and driving delivery. That experience developed my ability to connect technical detail with business priorities and lead others towards a shared outcome.
Cross-functional teamsTechnical implementationBusiness priorities
A global perspective.
An Asian focus.
I study how policy, financing and location relate to prices and transaction behaviour. Singapore is a key empirical setting for my current work; my doctoral interests extend to housing and real estate markets globally, with a particular focus on Asia.
From business foundations to doctoral research
Since August 2026, I have been pursuing a PhD in Management (Real Estate) at the Department of Real Estate, NUS Business School. I bring experience in transaction analysis, geospatial modelling, technical delivery and public communication to this work.
National University of Singapore
PhD in Management (Real Estate), in progress
Department of Real Estate, NUS Business School.
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Master of Management (Analytics and Visualisations)
Thesis: Using Geospatial Metrics to Improve Real-Estate Price-Predictions in Singapore.
Graduate Diploma in Analytics and Visualisations (2023); Graduate Diploma in Management (2022).
University of Birmingham
BSc International Business, First Class Honours
Different audiences.
The same care with evidence.
Explaining a result is part of the work. I have discussed housing affordability, supply, redevelopment and buyer decisions on CNA radio and television, and presented to community audiences, professionals, visiting students and an international housing delegation.
Making analysis accessible.
My CNA conversations cover the questions facing buyers and homeowners, from housing supply and resale prices to collective sales. My independent transaction research also contributed to The Business Times’ October 2026 property coverage.
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Bringing the discussion into the room.
From GOPIO and the Kamala Club to The Executive Centre, UT Austin, Pepperdine and the Hawaii housing delegation, my presentations connect market evidence with the questions each audience brings.
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I welcome conversations about research, data, seminars, briefings and media commentary.