ZYVice President, Machine Learning Engineer

Early-career professional exploring practical experience

I have some real work experience and I am actively building skills and projects to define my career direction.

Work samples

A concise collection of projects and tasks that reflect the skills I am building and the directions I am testing in my career.

  • MonaListen
    MonaListen

    Won 1st place for Best Use of ElevenLabs and Best Use of Replit at Hacklanta ’26 by building a WebAR tool that lets blind users explore paintings by ear, mixing sounds by camera location relative to artwork coordinates.

    WebARPostGISThree.jsReactElevenLabsPostgreSQL
  • UpStart
    UpStart

    Engineered an LLM creative suite for founders by fine-tuning Gemini 2.5 Flash on Vertex AI, applying tool use to populate pitch decks with Slides API and generate video adverts with Google Veo 3.1, coupled with a chatbot business advisor.

    Google Veo 3.1Vertex AIGeminiReact + ViteFlask

About me

I have some real work experience and I am actively building skills and projects to define my career direction.

I am Zhao Yang Kuah. I have some work experience but consider myself early in my career, learning on the job and building practical skills while exploring where I want to focus next.

Experience

Software Development Intern

AEM Energy Solutions · June 2024 – July 2024

Scholar, AI Scholars Program

Inspirit AI · June 2023

Vice President, Machine Learning Engineer

Big Data Big Impact @ Georgia Tech · Sep. 2025 – Current

User Interaction Developer

University of Hong Kong · Dec. 2022 – Oct. 2023

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Honors Program, GPA: 3.91/4.00 · Class of 2028

Skills

Willingness to learnHands-on project experienceExperimenting with career directions

MonaListen

Won 1st place for Best Use of ElevenLabs and Best Use of Replit at Hacklanta ’26 by building a WebAR tool that lets blind users explore paintings by ear, mixing sounds by camera location relative to artwork coordinates.

WebARPostGISThree.jsReactElevenLabsPostgreSQL
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UpStart

Engineered an LLM creative suite for founders by fine-tuning Gemini 2.5 Flash on Vertex AI, applying tool use to populate pitch decks with Slides API and generate video adverts with Google Veo 3.1, coupled with a chatbot business advisor.

Google Veo 3.1Vertex AIGeminiReact + ViteFlask
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Real-Time Collaborative Text Editor

Architected concurrency support over WebSocket protocol for a text editor, streaming plaintext changes as CRDTs for conflict resolution and optimizing for low latency while sharing live cursor positions using Yjs Awareness API.

WebSocketYjs (CRDTs)Node.js
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PathoLogic

Engineered an interactive 23-year measles transmission heatmap, mining WHO datasets to extract early signals of infection spread: implemented through a Python SEIR model simulating up to 5,000 individuals in contact.

MatplotlibSciPyNumPyPandasGoogle ColabSphinx AI
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