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Open to U.S. AI engineering roles

Theo Yang

AI Engineer

Enterprise AI Applications · Data & Risk

AI engineer with a 16-year career spanning data engineering, machine learning and risk systems, enterprise data platforms, and AI applications. I build from problem discovery and solution design through production deployment, enterprise integration, and user adoption.

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Current focus

Enterprise AI applications

Production proof

15M API calls/day

Domain edge

Data & risk systems

Engineering Journey

Data EngineeringData Mining & MLRisk & Data PlatformsAI ApplicationsForward-Deployed Delivery

My career has progressed from ETL and large-scale analytics to recommendation, credit intelligence, logistics analytics, ChatBI, and production AI agents. That path lets me connect model behavior with data foundations, domain constraints, APIs, deployment, and measurable adoption.

Target Role Families

I am focused on U.S. roles where hands-on AI application engineering meets enterprise delivery and domain depth:

Primary Entry

Lead
  • AI Engineer
  • AI Application Engineer
  • Applied AI Engineer

Forward-Deployed Fit

  • Forward Deployed Engineer
  • AI Solutions Engineer
  • Enterprise AI Engineer

Domain Advantage

  • Risk AI Engineer
  • Fraud AI Engineer
  • Data & AI Engineer

Core Capabilities

1

LLM Application Engineering

Building RAG pipelines, prompt and instruction workflows, LoRA-based adaptation, and grounded enterprise AI applications.

2

Agentic Systems

Designing ReAct-style tool orchestration, multi-step analytical workflows, fallback paths, and human-in-the-loop controls.

3

Evaluation & Reliability

Evaluating retrieval, generation, hallucination risk, business outcomes, model drift, and production behavior.

4

Data & Machine Learning

Working across Python, SQL, ETL, feature engineering, XGBoost, FAISS, Hadoop, and Spark MLlib.

5

Production & Enterprise Delivery

Taking systems from problem definition to APIs, secure deployment, integration, monitoring, scale, and user adoption.

AI Engineering Lab

A focused set of practical systems showing how I turn messy domain knowledge, files, videos, and workflows into searchable, testable, and reusable AI-assisted tools.

Game Engine Knowledge Base

Shows the ability to turn fragmented domain knowledge into governed data assets and AI-ready content systems.

Game Config & Lua Analysis Toolkit

Shows practical engineering of operational rules, validation logic, and domain-specific developer tooling.

Video-to-Documentation Pipeline

Shows the ability to convert unstructured media into reusable learning assets with measurable production efficiency.

AI Coding Workflow Playbook

Shows that I can teach and operationalize AI-assisted development instead of only using tools ad hoc.

Selected AI Systems

Fraud AILLM + RAGLoRASecure DeploymentHuman-in-the-loop

Enterprise Fraud Detection AI Platform

Built a production fraud-detection agent for regulated telecom and public-sector scenarios, combining deterministic rules, NLP, LLM reasoning, RAG, secure deployment, and standardized APIs at 15M calls per day.

Proof signal

Demonstrates production AI engineering under real security, latency, integration, scale, and adoption constraints—not a standalone model demo.

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NL2SQLTiered RoutingReAct AgentFAISSEnterprise Analytics

Enterprise ChatBI / NL2SQL System

Built a ChatBI system for logistics analytics that replaced an unreliable pure-LLM path with tiered routing, guided clarification, retrieval, validation, and ReAct-style tool orchestration.

Proof signal

Shows the ability to engineer reliable enterprise LLM applications by combining probabilistic reasoning with deterministic routing, tools, data context, and validation.

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Production MLXGBoostFeature EngineeringRisk AIAPI Platform

Xiaomi Credit Intelligence & Risk Platform

Built a credit-scoring platform from scratch for thin-file users, converting MIUI, IoT-device, and e-commerce behavior into 1,500 features, an XGBoost model, and API-based risk services.

Proof signal

Demonstrates end-to-end production ML engineering: feature systems, interpretable modeling, APIs, scale, partner integration, and measurable financial impact.

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Real-time AnalyticsRoot-cause AnalysisLogisticsDecision Support

Meituan Logistics Early-Warning & Diagnosis System

Built a real-time early-warning and diagnosis system for logistics fulfillment, connecting operational signals to root-cause analysis and measurable improvement actions.

Proof signal

Shows how large-scale data systems become operational engineering tools that improve reliability, cost, and frontline decision quality.

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