Open to AI Engineer opportunities in Canada and the US

Building AI products that deliver measurable outcomes

I engineer production LLM assistants with strong reliability, clear business impact, and practical deployment strategy.

AI Software Engineer with experience across GPT-powered assistants, RAG pipelines, voice-first emergency systems, and enterprise cloud modernization.

LLM Applications RAG + Retrieval Systems Real-time Voice AI AWS + Azure Python / Flask / React

About

Applied AI engineer focused on production reliability

What I build

  • Domain-grounded assistants that reduce hallucination and support clear actions
  • Real-time multimodal systems that handle high-stakes support workflows
  • Cloud-native application stacks with measurable SLO and delivery ownership

How I work

  • Start from business constraints, then design model + system boundaries
  • Iterate with user feedback loops and grounded evaluation criteria
  • Ship maintainable software: testability, observability, and rollback safety

Experience

Professional timeline

ERP System Software Engineer & Functional Consultant

JTANG Consulting Inc | Vancouver, BC, Canada

Jan 2025 - Present
  • Customized Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central for 10+ suppliers, improving operational efficiency by 30% and reducing inventory errors by 50%.
  • Delivered end-to-end migration from legacy ERP to Azure-based Business Central, including full MySQL migration and production cutover.
  • Resolved 50+ Tier-2 support tickets across access control, procurement, and configuration while maintaining high user satisfaction.

AI Software Engineer

We Link Technology LLC | San Jose, CA, USA

Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
  • Led development of JuTong, an AI sales and service assistant for KONE, using GPT-4o + domain retrieval to automate diagnostics and recommendations.
  • Drove about 30% team efficiency improvement and contributed to $5M cost savings.
  • Built backend services with Python/Flask, containerized via Docker, and deployed to AWS EC2.
  • Implemented RAG over 500MB structured documents to raise grounded answer quality.
  • Built a Twilio-based emergency voice platform and improved grounded accuracy from 80% to 90%, reducing escalations by 50%.

Research Assistant

UC San Diego SOC Lab | San Diego, CA, USA

Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
  • Developed an AI-based traffic control simulator in Python with 20% simulation efficiency gains.
  • Built real-time simulation visualization and validated 15% faster traffic flow stabilization.
  • Delivered a Flask demo app for research communication and result presentation.

Projects

Selected AI systems

Enterprise LLM Assistant

JuTong AI Sales & Service Assistant

Production AI copilot for elevator sales/service workflows. Delivers contextual recommendations, diagnostics support, and faster customer operations.

GPT-4oRAGPythonFlaskAWS EC2

Real-time Voice AI

AI Elevator Emergency Call Center

End-to-end voice assistant for emergency response with continuous passenger interaction, engineer relay, STT/TTS pipeline, and fallback resilience.

TwilioAzure AISTT/TTSGPT-4o Fallback

Applied Research

Autonomous Traffic Control Simulator

AI traffic strategy prototype with live simulation and web visualization for mixed highway traffic behavior analysis.

PythonFlaskSimulationVisualization

Skills

Technical stack

AI / ML

LLM ApplicationsRAGFine-tuning Stable DiffusionPrompt Engineering

Languages

PythonJavaC++JavaScript SQLHTMLCSSMATLABAL

Frameworks & Platforms

FlaskDjangoReactAWS AzureDockerMySQLMongoDB RedisSpark

Enterprise Delivery

Dynamics 365 Business CentralERP Migration Tier-2 SupportRequirements Analysis

Education

Academic background

  • University of California, San Diego MSc in Machine Learning & Data Science | GPA 3.6 / 4.0 Sep 2021 - Mar 2023
  • Cardiff University BSc in Computer Science (First Honor) | GPA 4.0 / 4.0 Sep 2019 - Jun 2021

Awards

Recognitions

  • Silver Award 6th China College Students Internet Plus Innovative Competition 2020
  • National Project Approval Lizi Visitor Platform based on SaaS mode 2019
  • Excellent + Most Popular Award Microsoft Imagine Cup competition 2019

Contact

Looking for an AI engineer who ships end-to-end systems?

I am available for roles focused on applied AI, LLM platforms, and production software engineering.

Renoyao9@gmail.com LinkedIn Website

Based in Burnaby, BC, Canada