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Note: This post is intended for friends and connections outside my current workplace. If you are a colleague or manager from my current employer, please kindly ignore this post.

Hi, I’m Zhiwei.

I’m a software engineer with 12 years of experience spanning iOS, Android, frontend, backend, and AI. I’ve worked across live-streaming startups, cloud computing platforms, China internet products, and financial systems at Singapore and Hong Kong banks. I’m actively moving into AI engineering — training GPT-2 with nanoGPT on H200 GPUs, consuming ~1.5 billion tokens via LLM APIs (~500M last month alone), building personal agents and automation tools. I ranked top 6% in AI assistant usage globally at my current employer. I want a role where AI, agents, and LLM work are the main job — not a side project.

📌 Highlights

🤖 AI Projects

Model Training

Personal AI Projects

Open Source Contributions to Others’ Projects

LLM API Usage

🔍 Why I’m Looking

My current job is going well — I’ve been with the same vendor-bank engagement for over a year, and my contract between my vendor and the bank has recently been extended for another year. I’m performing strongly: top 20% among contractors at my vendor, and top 6% in AI assistant usage globally at my employer.

My primary motivation for looking is becoming more AI-centric. I have technical idols — Yin Wang, Andrej Karpathy, Wenfeng Liang, Greg Brockman — and I want to grow in the direction they represent: deeply technical, AI-first, and building things that genuinely help companies and users. My current role involves AI tooling at the edges, but I want a position where AI, agents, and LLM systems are the core of the work, not a side activity. That said, given my reality, contractor or permanent positions at big banks that combine AI with backend or full-stack engineering are welcome too — I know that space well and can contribute immediately.

Compensation improvement is a secondary but real motivation. My current package is below where I’d like to be, and I want a role that better reflects my experience and output.

Beyond both of these, regularly engaging with the market is simply good practice — it keeps perspective sharp and ensures I’m aware of what’s available. The bank has a contractor-to-permanent conversion policy, but slots are limited and another senior peer is ahead in the queue. Looking externally is the more realistic path forward.

Full-stack and backend roles are welcome. My strong preference is for positions where AI, agents, or LLM work are central — I’ve been deeply invested in this space outside of work hours and want a role that matches that direction.

🏢 Work Experience

Company Role Period
TEKsystems → HSBC Bank (contractor) AI Engineer 2025.02 – Present
Freelancer ML & AI Projects 2023.08 – 2025.01
Farben Information (outsourced to HSBC PayMe) Backend Engineer 2022.11 – 2023.07
Beyondsoft (outsourced to DBS Bank) Backend Engineer 2021.12 – 2022.11
Freelancer Full Stack & Consulting 2020.01 – 2021.11
Square Root Technology (Fun Live app) Founder & Full Stack Engineer 2016.07 – 2019.12
CodeReview.cn Co-founder & Full Stack Engineer 2015.11 – 2016.07
LeanCloud Software Engineer 2014.07 – 2015.11

TEKsystems → HSBC Bank, AI Engineer (Contractor), 2025.02 – Present

🎓 Education

School Major Period
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies Computer Application, Associate Degree (Self-study, 13/17 courses passed) 2022.10 – Present
Beijing Forestry University Digital Media Arts, Bachelor (Dropout) 2013.09 – 2014.06
Guangzhou Yuyan Middle School Science Track 2007.07 – 2013.06

💼 Roles I am open to

I am flexible and open to multiple engineering directions:

I am not limited to pure research roles — I focus on building real systems and shipping products.

🏢 Work Arrangement

Open to:

🌍 Location Flexibility

💰 Compensation Expectation

Flexible depending on scope, responsibility, and growth potential.

🧠 Technical Background

🌐 Language Ability

🏅 Certificates

I’m open to discussing any roles where AI, systems engineering, and real product development intersect.

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