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Staff Software Engineer

Google

  • Frontend Tech Lead for Gemini playground - Google AI Studio (https://ai.google.dev/aistudio)

Tech: Angular, Gemini API

Senior Frontend Engineer

Airbnb

  • Key contributor to the new payment platform design launched in Nov 2024.
  • Spearheaded a frontend architecture overhaul, utilizing variation patterns to enhance scalability and reduce tech debt.

Tech: React, GraphQL, Happo

Lead Engineer

Sutter Hill Ventures

  • Solo engineer at the LLM startup incubator, built multiple products from 0 to 1.
  • Built a full RAG-LLM application Ask LukeW - the full stack web app, content ingestion pipeline for the text/audio/videos/web/emails/PDFs, and the RAG flow with conversation memory/citation/context-aware suggestions.
  • Led engineering for a stealth enterprise AI product capable of processing large volumes of multimedia content into structured data using an LLM pipeline, enabling complex content querying, including AI agent implementation.
  • Developed the initial VSCode extension for AI coding assistant - AugmentCode.

Tech: RAG LLM (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Llama), AI agent, Vector embeddings, SvelteKit, Supabase, VS code extension, LangChain

UXE Tech Lead Manager

Google

  • Co-designed, prototyped, and deployed multiple data insight tools used across Google, including by the Office of the CEO.
  • Tech lead for multiple cross-company products, including a company OKR tracker, roadmap planning tool, and tech stack platform.
  • Built and managed a team of 4 UXEs (2020 - 2023)

Tech: Vue, Angular, Firebase, GCP, d3.js

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