Zai
About
I am a software engineer who loves to solve real world problems with technology. I have a passion for building products that make people's lives easier and more enjoyable. I am always looking for new challenges and opportunities to learn and grow.
Work Experience
VendorSageNext.jsTypeScriptGoKubernetes
2025 - Today
Software Engineer
Building and scaling a procurement intelligence platform that helps organizations make smarter vendor decisions through data-driven insights.
CarchingNext.jsReact.jsFlutterLaravel
2024 - 2025
Software Engineer
A mobility startup revolutionizing car ownership by turning vehicles into moving brand experiences, blending ambient advertising with data-driven insights to optimize offline marketing and generate passive income for drivers.
ArchaicCTOResearcherGenerative AI
2023 - 2024
Cheif Technology Officer
Led the development of a startup focused on training diffusion models to generate architectural floorplans, combining cutting-edge AI research with practical applications.
KonoikeAutocadRevitLeadership
2021 - 2022
Architectural Drafter
Worked for multiple projects while exploring the word and myself.
Projects
github.comrealzai/burmese-gpt
An open-source transformer language model for the Burmese language, built from scratch with PyTorch during 2023 — back when ChatGPT was still on GPT-3.5 and building your own LLM was far from mainstream. One of the earliest efforts to bring large language model research to a low-resource Southeast Asian language, complete with a custom-curated Burmese Wikipedia dataset, a training pipeline, and a live demo on HuggingFace.
Python
PyTorch
HuggingFace
Transformers
premerly.com
A full-stack AI-powered SaaS platform built for real estate professionals. Generates property descriptions, marketing content, and client communications using OpenAI, redraws floor plans and virtually stages vacant rooms through Replicate's image models, and includes an AI chat assistant, market analysis dashboard, and lead generation tools — all behind Stripe-powered subscription tiers. My first startup project, built during 2023 while simultaneously learning how LLMs worked from the inside out.
Next.js
TypeScript
OpenAI
Replicate
Prisma
Stripe
github.comrealzai/umi
A diffusion-based image generator implementing Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) from scratch. Uses a UNet2D architecture with attention blocks, trains on CIFAR-10 with HuggingFace Accelerate for distributed training, and implements the full DDPM noise scheduling pipeline. Built to understand how diffusion models generate images from pure noise — the same fundamental technique behind Stable Diffusion and DALL-E.
Python
PyTorch
Diffusers
HuggingFace Accelerate
github.comrealzai/deepmine
A PyTorch-style deep learning framework written from scratch in Ruby. Implements tensors with gradient tracking, backpropagation, neural network layers (Linear, Conv2D, ReLU, Sigmoid, Tanh), an SGD optimizer, and loss functions (MSE, CrossEntropy). Built to deeply understand how frameworks like PyTorch work under the hood — by reimplementing one in a language with no existing deep learning ecosystem.
Ruby
Deep Learning
Autograd
Neural Networks
Certifications
Leadership and Communication
Apr 2025
Harvard University
Google Data Analytics
May 2025
Google
Rocket Science for Everyone
Jun 2025
Yale University
Meta Back-End Developer
May 2025
Meta
Applied Machine Learning
Apr 2025
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Python Data Engineering
Apr 2025
Duke University
Education
University of People (California)
2022 - 2025
B.E. Computer Science
Technological University (Mandalay)
2020 - 2021
B.Engineering. Civil Engineering
Clients
http:/greenlightedu.vercel.app
Biggest private school in the region. Worked for a PWA for entire school management system including payments, grading, staffs, accounts and many more.
full-stack
erb
pwa
app.aspora.io
Worked for a project named Aspora where we reverse the process of recruitment and job-seeking.
next.js
postgresql
#
Built an entire POS application end-to-end — a React web dashboard, a React Native mobile app, and a NestJS backend — with an offline syncing flow so the system stays operational even without internet connectivity.
nestjs
react
react-native
offline-sync
resonant-app.com
Made a mobile app(react-native) and a server(ruby on rails) to revolutionize the way artists, venues and audiences connect.
react-native
ruby on rails
nextjs
aws
greenwayplans.com.au
Built the website and client portal for an Australian NDIS plan management provider that handles invoice processing, budget tracking, and payment management for participants.
next.js
typescript
full-stack
tauri
react
Skills
Pytorch
TensorFlow
NextJs
NodeJs
Ruby on Rails
Laravel
ReactJs
TypeScript
Express.js
SvelteKit
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