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Technology Architect

Technology Architect and Full-Stack Developer with 4+ years' experience delivering enterprise cloud and AI solutions. Proven track record building production LLM/RAG pipelines and scalable Next.js + Spring Boot platforms.

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About Me

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Technology Architect and Full-Stack Developer with 4+ years' experience delivering enterprise cloud and AI solutions. Proven track record building production LLM/RAG pipelines and scalable Next.js + Spring Boot platforms, reducing deployment time (~60→15 min), improving image throughput (+30%) and launching ChillEasy serving 100+ active users.

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Years of experience

100+

Active users served

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Professional roles

Language

Cantonese

English

Mandarin

Experience

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12/2025 – Present

Technology Architect

Towngas

Fulltime

  • Lead evaluation and design of fit-for-purpose technical architectures for corporate use cases, balancing requirements, cost, security and operational risk.
  • Built LLM-based pipelines to extract and visualize business flows from recorded voice data; designed transcription, preprocessing, retrieval (RAG) and visualization components.
  • Collaborated with AWS, internal security and infrastructure teams to prepare the solution for production movement.
  • Gathered and translated stakeholder requirements into technical specifications; executed technical PoCs and coordinated vendor integrations.

05/2024 – 12/2025

Analyst Programmer

AST Business Solutions Limited

Fulltime

  • Designed and operated multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Alibaba Cloud) and on-prem Linux stacks; automated provisioning and deployments with Jenkins, Docker and Git hooks, reducing average deployment time from ~60 minutes to ~15 minutes.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, increasing production release cadence from 1 to 4 releases/week.
  • Designed middleware solutions using RabbitMQ to handle image-processing memory constraints and Redis for a high-performance URL shortener service; increased image throughput by ~30%.
  • Developed AI/ML tools and automation: built a prototype RAG customer-service chatbot on Alibaba Cloud Bailian, and implemented a news auto-scraping + multi-class tagging pipeline that reduced manual tagging from ~4 hours to ~1 hour.

04/2023 – 04/2024

Programmer

AST Business Solutions Limited

Fulltime

  • Owned end-to-end development of a B2B platform (ChillEasy): Next.js frontend and Spring Boot backend; designed REST APIs, integrated PayDollar payment gateway and implemented database schemas.
  • Supported more than 100 active users and coordinated 3rd-party service integrations to enable online transactions.
  • Resolved high-concurrency data integrity issues through JMeter-driven load testing and JPA pessimistic locking, preventing duplicate transactions under peak load.
  • Performed system maintenance, monitoring and performance tuning to ensure reliability in production environments.

09/2022 – 03/2023

Programmer

Hospital Authority

Fulltime

  • Developed and maintained modules in the Pharmacy Medicine System (PMS) using Adobe Flex and Java, focusing on backend stability and interface performance.
  • Optimized backend queries and APIs to improve response times and user experience for clinical workflows.
  • Conducted system testing, produced QA reports and supported rollout activities.

08/2021 – 08/2022

Research Assistant

City University of Hong Kong

Fulltime

  • Developed an NLP counseling chatbot using Python and Transformer-based models; prepared data pipelines and training scripts for experiments.
  • Conducted user studies and iterative evaluation to improve dialog handling and user satisfaction metrics.
  • Curated and annotated text datasets for model training and published research outcomes in collaboration with the team.
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Education & Skills

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Cloud & DevOps

Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Docker, Jenkins, CI/CD, Git

Languages & Frameworks

Python, Java, TypeScript, Next.js, Spring Boot, Flask

AI / ML & Data

PyTorch, Transformers, RAG, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy

Databases & Middleware

MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ

Platforms & Tools

Linux, macOS, Nginx, JMeter, Apache

Selected Projects

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