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1. 🎉 Merged PR #6 in ivanliu1989/solo-edge
2. 💪 Opened PR #6 in ivanliu1989/solo-edge

I'm a results-oriented engineering leader focused on turning rapidly evolving AI capabilities into systems that work reliably, at scale, in the real world. Currently Forward Deployed Engineering Head, Gen AI at Google, based in Sydney, Australia — leading Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) and AI Customer Engineering for Google Cloud's Digital Natives & Startups business across Australia and New Zealand.

Alongside my role at Google, I'm the Founder & Angel Investor at AtaNexus, building human-centered AI agents and investing in early-stage technology companies across AI infrastructure, developer tools, and applied AI. My product thesis is that as AI systems become more capable, the bottleneck in software creation increasingly shifts from implementation to context, judgment, and knowing what to build. I'm also a co-author of two Packt books, an active angel investor (Innovation Bay, Archangel Ventures, Startmate), and a frequent speaker, mentor, and multi-award datathon winner.

• Production GenAI & Agentic Systems — partnering with high-growth technology companies and startups across AuNZ to design, prototype, and productionise agentic AI solutions on Google Cloud.
• AtaNexus — studio for AI agents that actually help, with 5 live products in production: LeapEdge Clip (YouTube-to-trade research dossier powered by Gemini), LeapEdge (DITM LEAP options scanner), MyPathOS (AI-powered destiny mapping), CitizenReady (AI citizenship coach), and Prompt Cheat (Chrome extension prompt-ops toolkit). Follow launches on Product Hunt.
• solo-edge — the AI-fleet harness for solo builders shipping with coding agents (5 CI gates, 8 production receipts).
• Agent harnesses, evaluation & MCP tooling — composable workflows, model migration & eval gates, and Model Context Protocol reference implementations (mcp-client-server, mcp-weather).
• Early-Stage Angel Investing — backing ambitious founders in AI infrastructure, developer tools, and applied AI through AtaNexus, Innovation Bay, Archangel Ventures (LP), and Startmate (First Believers).

• AVAZU-CTR-Prediction — CTR prediction system for online advertising (⭐ 31).
• Predict-click-through-rates-on-display-ads — display advertising ML research on Criteo data (⭐ 17).
• SwiftKey-Natural-language — predictive text capstone with SwiftKey (⭐ 16).
• Real-time-Mobile-Video-Object-Detection — TensorFlow object detection on mobile (⭐ 15).
• Driver-Telematics-Analysis — driver behaviour patterns from telematics data (⭐ 13).
• Mapbox-Navigation-React-Native — Mapbox turn-by-turn nav in React Native (⭐ 10).

• Google — Forward Deployed Engineering Head, Gen AI (current)
• AtaNexus — Founder & Angel Investor (current)
• Nearmap — Snr Director of ML Ops, Infrastructure & Engineering
• Atlassian — Snr Engineering Manager, AI/ML Platform
• Rokt — Director of Engineering, ML & MLOps
• Trendii — Co-founder & CTO

• AtaNexus — Founder & Angel Investor (AI infrastructure, developer tools & applied AI)
• Innovation Bay — Angel Investor
• Archangel Ventures — Limited Partner
• Startmate — First Believers, Angel Investing

• The Data Science Workshop — Packt, Jan 2020
• The Python Workshop — Packt, Aug 2019

• 1st & 2nd Prizes — Melbourne Datathon (2015, 2016, 2017)
• Top 1% Data Scientist on Kaggle
• Guest Speaker — Google Cloud Next, RMIT University, AI/ML podcasts, and more
• Mentor & Industry Supervisor — RMIT University

• Global Panel Member — MIT Technology Review
• Member — Toastmasters International