Ryan Wang
Champaign, IL (willing to relocate)Open to AI Engineer / Software Engineering roles

AI Application Engineer (Full-Stack).

About

I am an AI Application Engineer (Full-Stack) focused on full-stack product development and AI-enabled workflows. I care about reliable backend systems, robust architecture, and building systems that stay maintainable as they grow.

Experience

Owned backend services end-to-end, designing and building a FastAPI-based platform leveraging LLMs, RAG, and vector databases to map academic programs, learning goals, and job skills, serving 10+ universities around the globe.

  • Built an LLM advisor agent for curriculum coverage and career-transition skill-gap analysis, combining query decomposition, tool use, and user-specific memory to drive multi-step reasoning over complex advisor queries; improved answer completeness by 20% across 100 evaluation cases.
  • Implemented a hybrid retrieval pipeline (dense + BM25) with BGE reranking, self-query, and query expansion for the advisor agent's RAG layer; evaluated using RAGAS, improving Recall@20 to 0.92 and faithfulness to 0.94.
  • Developed reusable React components and Next.js pages in TypeScript, delivering interactive dashboards and data visualization features for curriculum-skill mapping.
  • Deployed and maintained AI-enabled backend systems on AWS using Docker, ECR, EC2, Nginx, and Gunicorn; orchestrated async workflows with Lambda and Step Functions and automated CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
PythonNext.jsTypeScriptRAGAgentic SystemPostgreSQLAWSDockerOpenAI API

Designed and developed machine learning models that automate client procedures, driving integral business decisions, and improving overall efficiency.

  • Designed PostgreSQL schemas and data validation layers for production credit risk workflows, enforcing data quality and auditability while optimizing queries to improve pipeline throughput by 80%.
  • Engineered a backend workflow orchestration system in Python for inventory allocation and production planning workflows, coordinating multi-stage execution to reduce monthly delayed shipments by 30% and improve operational efficiency by 90%.
  • Deployed event-driven backend pipelines on AWS, exposing HTTP-triggered execution via API Gateway and orchestrating asynchronous tasks with Lambda and SageMaker Pipelines to integrate with downstream systems.
PythonPysparkScikit-LearnPandasNumpyJupyter NotebookAWS

Projects

Interview Wizard: AI Powered Mock Interview Platform homepage screenshot

Interview Wizard: AI Powered Mock Interview Platform

An AI-powered mock interview platform enabling realistic, interactive interview sessions with real-time speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and AI-driven question generation and feedback.

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSSPostgreSQLRedisVercelLLM APIs
RAG-based Financial QA Chatbot System homepage screenshot

RAG-based Financial QA Chatbot System

An E2E RAG-based LLMOps framework on AWS, automating data, feature, model, and inference pipelines to streamline corporate financial statement question-answering system.

RAGFastAPIMongoDBQdrantLlamaIndexRAGASHybrid RetrievalReranker

Contact

Let's use AI to build products that are actually useful and reliable!