Yap Wei Yih is a senior data scientist at Firemark Labs Singapore who has a master's degree in electrical engineering. He discusses solving three key problems: 1) processing terabytes of geospatial data using AWS EMR and Athena, 2) a scalable model development lifecycle platform using SageMaker, and 3) exposing a scalable API endpoint using Lambda and API Gateway without devops resources. EMR is used to spin up Spark clusters for data cleansing, aggregation, and geospatial functions on large datasets. SageMaker provides full model lifecycle management with notebooks, training, versioning, testing, and deployment. Lambda and API Gateway expose the SageMaker endpoint to external parties through a controlled API.