Available · SF Bay Area

Builder. Product. Engineer.

I build things at the intersection of AI and product. From training RL systems at Amazon AGI Lab to shipping products trusted by 1B+ users.

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Haoqi Shen
Pawsona
Building now
AI-powered cyber pet companion. Smart collar + LLM = your real pet's digital soul, talking to you all day.
React LLM IoT
Feed2
AI assistant that structures your feed saves and reminds you — that book, film, essay you never came back to.
LLM Mobile
NEULIF
97% accuracy AI-text detection via stylometric features + 1D CNN. No transformers. Runs on CPU. Published JAIR.
ML NLP Research
ClaimGuard
Workday expense reimbursement reduced to one photo upload — AI fills every field and flags policy risks.
AI Agent Workday

Experience

May – Aug 2024
Amazon
SF AGI Lab
Software Engineer
Building RL infrastructure for Nova Act
  • Architected RL training + evaluation infra, translating research workflows into production-ready preview systems
  • Engineered (S,A,R) extraction pipeline via WebSocket traces → raised Sample Conversion Rate +35%
  • Built sandboxed eval framework for model failure pattern classification → reduced MTTD 60%
  • Streamlined CI/CD + AMI via AWS CDK → zero drift, Lead Time cut 85%
May 2021 – Aug 2023
PingAn Fintech
Computer Vision
Technical PM
Multi-modal AI platform for eKYC & anti-fraud
  • Delivered platform supporting 1B+ annual API calls globally
  • Adversarial data strategy → SOTA 99.8% TAR for digital onboarding
  • Gaze-Intent Coercion Detection → 95% fraud recall via stress-signal scoring
  • Modular AIaaS platform with closed-loop data flywheels → custom deployment 70% faster
May – Aug 2021
Tencent
Ads
Product Manager
Video Ads Dynamic Creative Optimization
  • DCO engine iteration → 28% consumption penetration at 5% marginal cost
  • "Auto-Reconstruction" → aligned AIGC assets, boosted DCO Adoption +40%
  • Smart focal-point alignment → VTR +15% in non-native placements
Jan – Apr 2021
ByteDance
TikTok Monetization
Data Scientist
Product Analytics & Growth
  • "Native Resonance" model → 10x content volume for 1,000+ Key Accounts
  • YoY budget growth +500%, positioning TikTok as primary marketing channel

Education

Conferred Dec 2025
Northeastern University
MS, Information Systems · Oakland, CA
⭐ GPA 3.87 / 4.0
AI / Machine Learning
INFO 7375 — Neural Networks and Deep Learning INFO 7374 — Advanced Techniques with LLMsTA
Algorithms & Systems
INFO 6205 — Program Structure and Algorithms CSYE 6225 — Network Structures and Cloud Computing
Data Science
INFO 6105 — Data Science Engineering Methods and ToolsTA
Software Engineering
INFO 7245 — Agile Software Development INFO 5100 — Application Engineering and Development INFO 5101 — Lab for INFO 5100 INFO 5002 — Application Modeling and Design INFO 5001 — Application Modeling and Design Lab
Design & UX
INFO 6150 — Web Design and User Experience Engineering
Professional
ENCP 6000 — Career Management for EngineersTA
Conferred Sep 2022
Johns Hopkins University
MS, Education Technology · Baltimore, MD
⭐ GPA 3.98 / 4.0

Projects

Pawsona
Building now
AI-powered cyber pet companion. Smart collar + LLM = your real pet's digital soul, talking to you all day. Pre-seed stage.
React LLM IoT
WIP →
Feed2
AI assistant that structures your feed saves and reminds you — that book, film, essay you never came back to.
LLM Mobile
View →
NEULIF
97% accuracy AI-text detection via stylometric features + 1D CNN. No transformers needed. Runs on standard CPU. Published in JAIR.
ML NLP Research
Paper →
ClaimGuard
Workday expense reimbursement reduced to one photo upload — AI fills every field and flags policy risks before submission.
AI Agent Workday
Demo →

Tech Stack

Python React TypeScript Flask PostgreSQL PyTorch MLOps Prompt Engineering Vector DBs AWS CDK LLMs

Let's build something.

Open to product, engineering, and founding roles.

haoqi.shen@hotmail.com LinkedIn ↗ GitHub ↗