About Me

AI Engineer based in Hong Kong with a background spanning econometrics, academic ML research, and production AI systems. I design and ship end-to-end solutions — from model development and REST API design to cloud deployments on GCP and Azure, platform integrations, and in-house SaaS development. Across insurance, luxury retail, and ad-tech, I've led data platform transformations, built multi-agent AI systems, and driven AI initiatives across APAC. I care about systems that are scalable, maintainable, and actually move the needle.

Recent Work
Reinforcement Learning
Blackjack RL Agent

Training a reinforcement learning agent to play Blackjack optimally using policy evaluation, Monte Carlo methods, and value iteration — from coursework research at CityU.

Experience Highlights

Digital transformation & ML infrastructure for enterprise clients across insurance and media.

Hotmob 2022 – 2024

Led pipeline development and digital transformation for Prudential and BLP — building in-house ETL pipelines, migrating legacy SaaS systems to M Query and DEX, and shipping MLOps dashboards. Ran POCs on Azure, Databricks, and ML Studio to establish scalable ML infrastructure.

Led all AI initiatives across APAC retail — scalable data products, recommendation engines, and LLM agents.

Richemont 2024 – 2026

Designed multiple scalable data products that cut overhead and drove €3M+ in incremental APAC revenue. Led the codebase transformation of the data platform and spearheaded nearly all AI initiatives across the APAC data team in Hong Kong — recommendation systems, forecasting models, federated learning, and LLM agents.

Building AI solutions for APAC insurers — reducing manual workloads and modernising the policy lifecycle.

Wipro Capco 2026 – Present

Building AI solutions for APAC insurers — reducing manual workloads, improving straight-through processing (STP), and integrating AI across the policy lifecycle via agents, cloud platforms, and A2A orchestration.

Publications

Papers

Research I've contributed to.

Vertical Federated Learning – An Application for Financial Institutions

Co-author · July 2024

Privacy-preserving credit risk modeling across bank and non-bank institutions. Benchmarks FedAvg and FedReconstruct; assesses accuracy, privacy, and regulatory compliance trade-offs.

Federated Learning
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Multimodal Recommendation Engine with Feature Encoders

City University of Hong Kong · 2024

Leverages multimodal feature encoders to improve item representation and personalisation accuracy in recommendation systems.

Recommendation Systems
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Blackjack Reinforcement Learning

City University of Hong Kong · 2024

Training an RL agent to play Blackjack optimally using classic reinforcement learning algorithms, policy evaluation, and Monte Carlo methods.

Reinforcement Learning
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Work

Projects

Things I've built.

Collaborative filtering and content-based recommendation engine from scratch. Matrix factorization and item-based similarity models.

Web application for flight planning — handles routing, scheduling, and data lookup with a clean Python API layer.

NLP classifier predicting product ratings from text reviews using TF-IDF, embeddings, and gradient boosting.

Interactive data visualization dashboard with R Markdown — analytical storytelling with real datasets and Shiny interactivity.

Demo

Blackjack RL Agent

Reinforcement learning agent learning to play Blackjack optimally.

Experience

Work History

Where I've applied and built.

Feb 2026 – Present

AI Engineer

Wipro Capco · Hong Kong
  • Built end-to-end AI Underwriting Agent for Life Insurance on Azure with CI/CD and Docker
  • Architected Agent-to-Agent (A2A) orchestration for tool centralization and AI Agent Builder platforms
  • Built Siamese neural networks for forgery detection and wet signature verification
  • Developed cross-product sales intelligence tool using multi-agent workflows (orchestrator, evaluator, aggregator, domain agents)
  • Led ML/LLMOps workflows including ETL pipelines and monitoring on Databricks and Power BI
Sep 2024 – Present

Co-owner & Lead Developer

Learn2Play · Hong Kong
  • Secured HKD 100K seed funding from Cyberport Creative Micro Fund
  • End-to-end development of native iOS app (Dart) and FastAPI backend deployed on GCP
  • Integrated custom AI agents for OCR-based content recognition with Firebase and MySQL auth
Jun 2024 – Jan 2026

Regional Data Scientist

Richemont · Hong Kong
  • Delivered propensity-model pipelines (XGB/RF/LGBM) driving €3M+ incremental product sales (FY25–26)
  • Deployed Deep Matrix Factorization and GRU models with 68–82% Top-K accuracy for product recommendations
  • Productionized 14 boutique performance forecasting models at 60–85% monthly accuracy
  • Deployed product-recommendation AI agent powered by Chainlit, LangGraph, ChromaDB, MCPs, and Redis
  • Implemented Variational Autoencoders and Federated Learning to mask PIIs for model training
Jul 2022 – Jun 2024

Data Scientist

Hotmob Limited · Hong Kong
  • Fine-tuned and deployed a Content Classification Model (BERT) at 66% accuracy using FastAPI and Docker
  • Built fraud detection models for insurance claims using Keras and Azure ML Studio (70% Recall)
  • Developed in-house RAG chatbots with graph generation using FAISS, PaLM, LangChain, and Looker SDK
  • Python API developer for in-house AI marketing content generator (Django, Gemini, RAG)
Jan – Aug 2020

Research Analyst

Ontario Ministry of Infrastructure · Toronto
  • Migrated legacy SQL scripts to R, optimizing data workflows with custom geocoding functions
  • Location analysis with spatial data, geocoding, and construction funding estimates using R and SQL
Sep – Dec 2018

Project Assistant / Learning Developer

Seneca College · Markham, ON
  • Designed online courses and vector arts using Articulate 360, WordPress, and Adobe Creative Cloud
Jan – Apr 2018

Event Management Trainee

Canadian Chamber of Commerce · Hong Kong
  • Monitored membership database and produced P&L reports using Excel and NeonCRM
  • Designed infographics, booklets, and marketing campaigns using Adobe CC and Mailchimp
Education

Academic Background

Degrees and certifications.

Master of Data Science (MSDS)

City University of Hong Kong · Hong Kong
2023 – 2025  ·  4.0 GPA  ·  Distinction
Research: Multimodal Recommendation Systems & Federated Learning
Courses: NLP, Stochastic Optimizations, Dynamic Programming & Reinforcement Learning
Distinction

Bachelor of Arts — Econometrics & Business (Co-op)

University of Waterloo · Kitchener, ON
2016 – 2021  ·  3.7 GPA  ·  Distinction
Distinction

Professional Machine Learning Engineer (PMLE)

Google Cloud · Certification
Certified: May 2026
Certified
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