Production AI Engineer

Max Chan

Python and TypeScript engineer specializing in LangGraph agentic systems, RAG pipelines, LLMOps, document AI, and full-stack delivery.

I have spent 4+ years as the sole senior engineer at an AI startup, owning technical delivery for Hong Kong Government and commercial clients from requirements gathering through air-gapped deployment.

Impact

Proof points hiring teams and clients can scan in seconds.

4+years owning AI startup delivery
3live AI systems shipped
10schools in HKDSE pilot
<6mper 24-page paper grading run

Selected systems

Production work across government, EdTech, and robotics.

10-school live pilot · EdTech

HKDSE AI exam-grading platform

Reduced marking from hours to under 6 minutes per 24-page handwritten paper while staying within +/-2 marks of professional marking standards.
  • RAG
  • OCR
  • multi-modal
  • LLM evaluation
  • Next.js

Beta trial · Hong Kong disciplinary service

Air-gapped government compliance RAG

Architected a zero-cloud-dependency RAG platform for Hong Kong's largest disciplinary service, then delivered an invited training session on RAG architecture and evaluation for their engineers.
  • LangGraph
  • GraphRAG
  • Qdrant
  • Langfuse
  • Docker

Live robot system · Low-resource NLP

Cantonese NLP for Unitree GO2

Fine-tuned Cantonese speech recognition for live robot hardware, added streaming VAD, and separated up to six simultaneous speakers in uncontrolled environments.
  • PyTorch
  • STT/TTS
  • diarization
  • robotics

Experience

Client-facing AI product ownership.

Parami AI

AI Software Developer & Product Manager

  • Sole senior engineer and product owner for government and commercial AI delivery.
  • Primary client-facing engineer across requirements, architecture, procurement constraints, and deployment.
  • Delivered an invited RAG training talk for government engineers after shipping the air-gapped compliance platform.
  • Owned full-stack implementation across Python services, Next.js products, retrieval, evaluation, observability, and testing.

New Concept Engineering Company Limited

Software Developer

  • Built and maintained full-stack client web applications across debugging, feature development, and system investigation.

Lovetravel Interactive Technologies

Technical Intern

  • Integrated WeChat Pay for a cross-border e-commerce platform and supported full-stack feature development.

Skills

Grouped by work a hiring manager can recognize.

AI & agents

  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • ReAct graphs
  • HITL
  • query routing
  • tool use

Retrieval & evaluation

  • Qdrant
  • hybrid search
  • GraphRAG
  • RAGAS
  • Langfuse
  • LLM-as-a-judge

Application stack

  • FastAPI
  • Next.js
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Docker

Quality & delivery

  • Playwright
  • pytest
  • Vitest
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • RS256/JWKS

Education

Formal study plus shipped systems.

  • MSc Artificial Intelligence in progress, SWISS UMEF University of Applied Sciences, 2025-2027
  • Computer Science studies, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2016-2019
  • International Baccalaureate, Yew Chung International School of Hong Kong