Zhihao (Z) L.

AI Product & Engineering Leader | 2M users, 40+ team, ex-AWS AI/ML GTM | Production AI that moves revenue

Temasekex-minden.aiex-Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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I've shipped production AI from both sides—selling it and building it. At Teralytics (ML on spatio-temporal data at scale), I was Head of Asia—GTM and a 10+ data science/engineering team reporting to me, shipping city-scale mobility analytics for governments and enterprises.

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Multi-million dollar deals, the largest in the company. At AWS, I was AI/ML GTM lead for ASEAN—customer engagements across fraud detection, recommendation, and computer vision, including the largest ride-hailing company in Southeast Asia. As founding Head of Product & Engineering at ai (yuu), I built product, engineering, data/ML, and cybersecurity from zero to 40+ people. Shipped to 1M users in 100 days (Google Play Best of 2023). AI I designed—embeddings, RAG, causal inference, contextual bandits, and generative AI for personalization—delivered 10%+ revenue uplift in production. Technical: Python, PyTorch, LLM APIs, RAG, embeddings, distributed systems, AWS (SageMaker, Glue), Snowflake, Kafka. Still hands-on—current project: LLMCouncil CLI, extending Karpathy's concept with multi-turn debate and file upload. Now: Temasek AI Pod. Trusted technical advisor to portfolio company leadership on GenAI strategy and architecture—running architecture sessions, helping teams decide copilot vs autonomous, RL vs LLM, and designing human-feedback loops for model improvement. I know what separates AI that ships from AI that stalls. Looking for Principal/Staff AI Solution Architect or Head of Applied AI roles at platform companies. Singapore or within a two-hour flight.