Open to AI engineering roles · Christchurch, New Zealand

Hi, I'm Winson Wu.

EngineeringProduction AI.

12+ years of professional software engineering, including 6 years building and shipping production AI systems. Architected enterprise agent platforms powering 10+ products, scaled visual retrieval to tens of billions of images, co-invented 9 patents. Open to AI engineering roles.

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Winson Wu

AI Engineer · Builder

Production AIAgentsRetrievalInfra

Christchurch, New Zealand

Open to AI engineering roles

Things I'm building.

On-device AIWebGPU

Live

LocalMask

A browser-native PII filter. Detects and redacts names, emails, phones, addresses, and secrets across text, PDF, Word, and Excel — running entirely on your device. Nothing is uploaded.

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LLMWeb scraping

Live

FreshRadar

A fresh-produce deals aggregator for Christchurch (NZ). Scrapes Facebook community posts and uses LLMs to structure listings into searchable data. FastAPI · SQLite · Playwright · LLM extraction.

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Computer VisionInpainting

Live

AI Watermark Remover

Removes both visible and invisible AI watermarks from images — including SynthID-style markers from ChatGPT, Gemini, DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion.

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Twelve years in software, six in production AI.

Architect & Software Engineer · Intellifusion

Aug 2018 - Sep 2024

Top 20% OKR performer; led architecture for high-throughput AI platforms.

Architected an enterprise AI agent platform powering 10+ internal products: conversation orchestration, function calling, RAG, hybrid memory.

Built and scaled DeepEye visual search platform, serving tens of billions of images across 400 Kubernetes nodes at 15 PFLOPS throughput.

Co-inventor of 9 granted technical patents.

Software Engineer · Jobcn

Jan 2017 - Aug 2018

Rebuilt the job/resume search engine, achieving ~50% lower query latency and 2.5x higher throughput.

Software Engineer · ChinaRS

Apr 2016 - Jan 2017

Developed data management and processing modules for a remote-sensing workstation platform.

IT Support Engineer · Dongguan Civil Affairs Bureau

Sep 2012 - Apr 2016

Managed enterprise IT infrastructure: servers, networks, security.

LLM & Generative AI

Production RAGAI AgentsFunction CallingLangChainPrompt Engineering

AI & ML

PyTorchTensorFlowCUDAKerasFAISS / Vector Search

Languages

PythonJavaC++SQLShellTypeScript

Infrastructure

LinuxDockerKubernetesNginxGit

Data & Storage

MySQLPostgreSQLMongoDBRedisElasticsearchKafkaSpark

AI Dev Tools

Claude CodeCodexMCPCursor

Turning research into shipped products.

I'm an AI engineer with 12+ years of professional software engineering, including 6 years building and shipping production AI systems: large-scale image retrieval platforms serving tens of billions of images, and enterprise AI agent platforms powering 10+ internal products.

Currently pursuing a Master of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Canterbury (NZ), focusing on Large Language Models, applied AI systems, and Edge AI. Co-inventor of 9 granted technical patents.

I like turning research-grade ideas into shipped products. This site collects what I'm working on, starting with FreshRadar, with more AI products on the way.

Education

Master of Artificial Intelligence

University of Canterbury

Feb 2025 - Jul 2026

Focus: LLMs, Applied AI Systems, Edge AI.

Bachelor of Communication Engineering

Dongguan University of Technology

Sep 2008 - Jun 2012