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AI-native founder exploring new patterns for human-computer interaction.
Mandarin + English
Exploring AI-native interfaces
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Experience
10+ years across AI-native product, recommendation systems, growth ML, financial data, and investment workflows.
Founder / CTO
Built an agentic finance application with streaming tool calls, typed tool definitions, per-tool result UI, wallet/auth flows, transaction simulation, and visible execution state.
Founder / CTO
Built and demoed browser-task automation flows that turn natural-language intent into visible web actions, product scripts, evaluation examples, and user-facing automation narratives.
Algorithm Expert, User Growth
Deployed merchant classification across 100M merchants, expanded coverage by 20M at 0.76 F1, led five engineers on Double-12 recommendation systems, and drove 10M incremental users.
Data & Analytics Manager, Growth
Built RandomForest and XGBoost cross-sell models over roughly 50M behavior records, reached 0.81 AUC, improved campaign conversion by 40%, and coordinated Singapore/SF rider-app measurement.
Senior Financial Data Analyst, Mergers & Acquisitions
Built transaction models and investor materials for $25M-$125M deals, with API-fed DCF tools, scenario analysis, and commodity-price regression to connect narrative with measurable drivers.
Data Analyst, Private Wealth Management
Shipped Java and VBA workflow tools for derivatives regulatory reporting and analytics, cut repeated reporting work by roughly 90%, and supported operating-model and data-security workflows.
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A short preview of writing on agent UX, product education, and AI-native interaction.
Approach [How I work]
I focus on ambiguous technology that needs to become legible, useful, and worth trusting.
I'm an AI-native founder and ML engineering leader working across product development, machine learning, finance, and new interaction models.