Tommy Chung

Full-Stack AI Developer

Based in Toronto, Canada. Senior Data Science Engineer at Robots and Pencils. Passionate about Generative AI, Web Development, and building scalable solutions.

Experience

Robots and Pencils ULC

June 2024 – Current
Senior Data Science Engineer🇨🇦 Canada
  • Innovate with Generative AI and Agentic AI for client in educational technology
  • Develop Conversational Simulation Solution with OpenAI GPT 4o, Vercel AI SDK, React Router and Koa.js
  • Participant in development of in-house semantic search engine, LLMOps solution adoption

Caribou Technology Limited

Aug 2023 – June 2024
Lead Developer🌐 Freelance / Remote
  • Lead system design and development for client-facing applications
  • Implement Next.js apps with Vercel, AWS EventBus, AWS Lambda, orchestrated with SST.dev
  • Design and build chatbot system with GPT4, Claude3, LangChain

Mad Head App Limited

June 2022 – June 2023
Senior Programmer🇭🇰 Hong Kong
  • Maintained internal game configuration tools with React and MUI
  • Built campaign apps serving 400k users with Koa.js, MongoDB, GCP Cloud Function
  • Modernized dev tools, reducing start time by ~60% and CI/CD time by ~50%

PrimeCredit

April 2021 – April 2022
Data Scientist🇭🇰 Hong Kong
  • Built chatbot and NLP projects with Python, Pytorch and Hugging Face
  • Revamped Customer Data Platform, saving ~CAD$175k per year using n8n and MariaDB
  • Coached junior colleagues and promoted innovation culture

DataTech.ai

June 2019 – April 2021
Data Scientist🇭🇰 Hong Kong
  • Developed Topic Mining System for popular forum with Next.js, Python, FastAPI
  • Built Data Solution/ETL Pipeline for Cosmetic/Retail client
  • Analysed Customer Data and made recommendations on business strategies

Projects

Amoeba 28 (Luxury Marketplace App)

Built and deployed iOS/Android mobile app with Expo. Built API server with Hasura (GraphQL API) and Postgresql.

ExpoReact NativeHasuraPostgresql

Splity.io (Group Expenses Calculator)

Experiment to explore developing applications on Cloudflare. Built with React Router v7, Cloudflare Worker, D1 (SQLite).

React Router v7Cloudflare WorkerD1Durable Objects

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

JavaScript
TypeScript
Node.js
React.js
Next.js
React Router
React Native
ExpressJS
Koa.js
Python
Pandas

Databases

MySQL
Postgresql
MongoDB
MariaDB
D1 (SQLite)

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (CDK, SQS, S3...)
SST.dev
Docker
Kubernetes
GCP Cloud Function
Cloudflare

Tools

Git
Vercel
n8n
Expo
Hasura (GraphQL)