β€” About Me

Mindy
🌿 Hamilton, NZ

Hi πŸ‘‹, I'm Mindy. Β· ι‚΅η‡•ζ˜Ž

I'm a senior
Full-Stack Engineer.

10+ years building AI/LLM platforms and the systems they live in. Ex-ByteDance senior engineer, now finishing a Master of IT at the University of Waikato β€” looking for engineering roles across Aotearoa, New Zealand.

Open to Work Β· Hamilton, New Zealand
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// AI / LLM Β· Enterprise Systems

Orchestration, in six elements.

In four years at ByteDance I built two AI platforms β€” LabelGPT for data annotation and Manet for LLM evaluation. These are the building blocks I reach for.

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RAG Pipeline

End-to-end retrieval-augmented generation with vector stores, rerankers, and citation chains.

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AI Agent

Autonomous multi-step agents with tool-use, memory, and self-correction loops.

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MCP Tools

Model Context Protocol integrations that extend LLMs with real-world capabilities.

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Browser Automation

Playwright-based agents for web scraping, form-filling, and computer-use workflows.

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Fine-tuning

Supervised fine-tuning and RLHF pipelines for domain-specific model adaptation.

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Workflow Engine

DAG-based orchestration for complex multi-agent and multi-step AI pipelines.

β€” Selected Work β€”

Things I've shipped.

Recent study work + enterprise systems from ByteDance, JD.com and earlier.

Β· Industry Β· ByteDance Β· JD.com Β· China Unicom Β·5 projects Β· scroll β†’
~/labelgpt

LabelGPT β€” screenshot

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LabelGPT

ByteDance Β· 2023 – 2026

AI-powered data annotation platform. LLM-assisted labeling workflows cut annotation cost by 60% while human-in-the-loop QA kept precision above 97%.

PythonLLMRAGFastAPIVue 3
~/manet

Manet β€” screenshot

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Manet

ByteDance Β· 2021 – 2023

Multi-model LLM evaluation framework with automated red-teaming, quality scoring, and benchmark tracking across 20+ production models.

PythonLLMEvaluationKubernetes
~/iot

IoT Platform β€” screenshot

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IoT Platform

JD.com Β· 2020 – 2021

Enterprise IoT management platform connecting 500K+ smart devices with real-time monitoring, alerting, and full device lifecycle management.

JavaKafkaRedisSpring Boot
~/community

Smart Community Portal β€” screenshot

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Smart Community Portal

JD.com Β· 2018 – 2020

Full-stack residential management portal serving 2M+ residents β€” property services, visitor management, parcel tracking, and community announcements.

ReactJavaMySQLMicroservices
~/skyform

SkyForm CMP 5.0 β€” screenshot

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SkyForm CMP 5.0

China Unicom Β· 2016 – 2018

Cloud management platform for multi-tenant resource provisioning, cost allocation, and lifecycle management across Unicom's private cloud infrastructure.

AngularJavaDockerOpenStack
Β· University of Waikato Β· 2025 – 2026 Β·3 projects Β· scroll β†’
~/thesis

Adaptive Agent Memory β€” screenshot

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Adaptive Agent Memory

Master's Thesis Β· 2026

A self-pruning long-term memory layer for autonomous agents. Reduces hallucination by 31% on long-horizon tasks while keeping token budgets flat.

PyTorchLangGraphChromaDBFastAPI
~/kiwicare

KiwiCare β€” screenshot

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KiwiCare

Capstone Β· 2026

Community-care mobile platform for rural NZ β€” connects elderly residents in Waikato with verified local volunteers via SMS-first triage.

React NativeSupabaseTwilio
~/rag-study

RAG Study Assistant β€” screenshot

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RAG Study Assistant

Course Project Β· 2025

A retrieval-augmented study tool that indexes course PDFs and answers questions with source citations. Deployed for 40+ classmates during exam season.

LlamaIndexQdrantNext.jsOpenAI

// Career

A decade of building.

ByteDance

Aug 2021 – Feb 2026 Β· Beijing

PythonLLMRAGMCPPlaywrightVue 3FastAPIK8s

Senior Software Engineer

  • β–ΈBuilt LabelGPT, an AI annotation platform reducing labeling cost by 60%.
  • β–ΈArchitected Manet, a multi-model LLM evaluation framework with automated red-teaming.
  • β–ΈDesigned RAG pipelines processing 10M+ docs with sub-200ms retrieval latency.
  • β–ΈLed a 5-person team across annotation tooling and AI evaluation infrastructure.

JD.com

Jul 2018 – Aug 2021 Β· Beijing

JavaSpring BootReactMySQLRedisKafkaIoT

Software Engineer

  • β–ΈDeveloped IoT platform connecting 500K+ smart devices for smart community management.
  • β–ΈBuilt full-stack Smart Community portal serving 2M+ residents.
  • β–ΈOptimised core data pipelines, reducing processing latency by 40%.

China Unicom

May 2016 – Jun 2018 Β· Beijing

JavaAngularDockerOpenStack

Software Engineer

  • β–ΈLed frontend development of SkyForm CMP 5.0, a cloud management platform.
  • β–ΈContributed to WoCloud, enterprise cloud storage with multi-tenant resource management.

Hitachi China

Jul 2015 – Apr 2016 Β· Beijing

JavaSQLEnterprise Systems

Software Engineer (Intern β†’ FTE)

  • β–ΈConverted from intern to full-time within 6 months.
  • β–ΈBuilt internal tooling for enterprise data management and reporting.

// Stack

What I work with.

Language

PythonTypeScriptJavaSQL

AI / LLM

LangChainLlamaIndexRAGFine-tuningMCP

Frontend

ReactNext.jsVue 3Tailwind CSS

Backend

FastAPISpring BootNode.jsGraphQL

Infra

KubernetesDockerAWSGCPCI/CD

Data

PostgreSQLRedisKafkaElasticsearchVector DB

// Now

What's now.

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Studying at University of Waikato

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Building RAG + agent projects for my portfolio

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Exploring the NZ tech community

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Reading: Designing Machine Learning Systems

// Contact

Got a role?

I'm listening.

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