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AI-native founder exploring new patterns for human-computer interaction.
Mandarin + English
Exploring AI-native interfaces
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Works
Experience
10+ years across AI-native product, recommendation systems, growth ML, financial data, and investment workflows.
Founder / AI Product Lead
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 / Product Builder
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
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.
Growth Data & Analytics
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.
M&A / Valuation
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.
Financial Systems
Shipped Java and VBA workflow tools for derivatives regulatory reporting and analytics, cut repeated reporting work by roughly 90%, and automated investment research refreshes with APIs and Bloomberg inputs.
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Notes
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.