Oct 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Remote

• 【 Key Contribution 】
• Advised a senior stakeholder on Data & AI strategy to support digital transformation goals.
• Shaped both short-term wins and long-term roadmap, aligning AI initiatives with commercial impact.
• Improved foundational data quality and insight delivery to support stakeholder decision-making.
• Explored agentic AI solutions to enhance customer service.

Apr 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Hybrid

• 【 Business Background 】
• Endeavour Group is Australia’s leading retail drinks and hospitality business, with over 2,000 stores and venues, including BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Langton's and ALH Hotels. The Data & AI team supports enterprise-wide decision-making through advanced analytics and machine learning, with a strong focus on pricing, promotions, inventory, and customer insights.
• 【 Key Contribution 】
• Delivered forecasting, pricing & promotion recommendation models, and GenAI initiatives, contributing to commercial uplift and enhanced user engagement across multiple business units.
• Participated in AI RFP processes and provided technical insights to support business decision-making.
• Advocated for and improved AI literacy through internal training, mentorship, knowledge sharing, and technical documentation tailored to business, product, and technical audiences.
• Collaborated with UX designers, SMEs, and internal users to ensure delivery of user-centric AI solutions.
• Contributed to internal social capital by helping organise social events; supported team rebranding efforts that received positive feedback from leadership.
• Nominated to participate in the firm’s Leadership Development Program.
• Panelist at GDG Sydney DevFest 2024 on Responsible AI and LLMs; shared perspectives on practical collaboration between Legal and Tech teams in designing GenAI guardrails.
• 【 Impact 】
• Contributed to commercially successful AI initiatives, and achieved significant user adoption.
• Enabled scaling of GenAI adoption through cross-functional partnerships.
• Strengthened AI capability by bridging technical and non-technical teams through tailored education and documentation.
• Represented the organisation externally by speaking on Responsible AI and LLM governance at a leading tech community event.

Feb 2023 – Apr 2023 · 2 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · Remote

• 【 Business Background 】
• Go Husky is a startup offering a GenAI-powered web platform (FotoPie) that helps small and medium-sized Australian businesses create high-quality marketing images. The platform integrates AI-generated visuals with social networking features, enabling collaboration between photographers, marketers, and business owners. It supports both free and paid service tiers.
• 【 Key Contribution 】
• Served as Tech Lead, defining the technical roadmap and aligning with product and business teams.
• Led end-to-end MVP development of a GenAI-powered marketing assistant.
• Architected and automated infrastructure for scalable cloud deployment.
• Designed CI/CD workflows and coordinated cross-functional delivery for successful pilot launch.
• 【 Impact 】
• Delivered a functioning MVP within a startup environment, enabling early user testing and exploration of investor interest and maturity in the GenAI space.
• Accelerated development cycles through automated CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Played a key role in shaping the product vision through technical feasibility input and rapid prototyping.

Aug 2019 – Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• 【 Business Background 】
• Remi AI is a leading research-driven startup delivering bespoke and SaaS AI solutions to retail and manufacturing clients across Australia and globally. Its core focus areas include demand forecasting, dynamic pricing, and inventory optimisation.
• 【 Key Contribution 】
• Delivered both PoCs and SaaS AI systems for multiple Fortune 500 clients.
• Designed and developed demand forecasting, inventory planning, and dynamic pricing models tailored to retail and supply chain use cases.
• Contributed to the firm’s MLOps initiatives by building and maintaining end-to-end cloud-native ML pipelines.
• Facilitated stakeholder workshops and post-deployment reviews to support AI adoption and ensure business alignment.
• Led internal knowledge-sharing sessions and wrote technical documentation to enable collaboration across time zones and functions.
• Invited guest speaker at AWS Community Day Australia/New Zealand 2020, presenting insights from real-world AI deployments and showcased Amazon Forecast service.
• 【 Impact 】
• Delivered forecasting and optimisation solutions for enterprise retail clients, driving strong commercial outcomes across multiple review cycles — strengthening client relationships and supporting two successful funding rounds.
• Strengthened Remi AI’s technical presence through public speaking, including as a guest speaker at AWS Community Day Australia/NZ 2020.
• Contributed to R&D efforts that led to Remi AI being named a finalist in the 2022 Premier’s NSW Export Awards (Advanced Technologies).

Apr 2019 – Jul 2019 · 3 mos

• 【 Key Contribution 】
• Built tailored forecasting models and an optimisation tool for a national call centre’s vending machine operations.
• Supported delivery of bespoke solutions for multiple Fortune 500 clients.
• Applied AI/ML skills in a major hackathon outside of work, showcasing capabilities.
• 【 Impact 】
• Achieved significant cost reduction for an operational project; the solution was nominated as a finalist in the client’s 2019 Innovation of the Year awards.
• Won Best AI/Data Science/ML Award at a major hackathon sponsored by Microsoft, AWS, and Meta.
• Recognised by then-Programming General Manager at Microsoft, in her published blog on innovation and incubation.

Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 · 11 mos · Beijing, China · On-site

• 【 Business Background 】
• 7k7k was one of China’s leading online game platforms during the 2012–2013 peak, serving millions of users daily with a vast catalogue of flash-based and web games.
• 【 Key Contribution 】
• Joined the Platform Team as a Intern, working alongside research data scientists to improve the performance of the in-house search algorithm and UI layout for game discovery.
• Focused on enhancing user engagement and operational efficiency through data-informed experimentation.
• 【 Impact 】
• Search Engine Optimization: Collaborated with research data scientists to improve the in-platform search function indexing performance, resulting in more relevant game results based on user queries.
• UX Experimentation: Contributed to redesigning the search results layout to improve user navigation and reduce bounce rates.
• A/B Testing & Insights: Designed and executed A/B tests to evaluate layout and ranking changes, enabling data-driven product decisions with measurable engagement improvements.