Hey 👋, I am Ka Wo

• 🧑🏻‍💻 A software engineer with experience in full-stack development, machine learning, and platform engineering.
• 🏆 A high achiever who works diligently and solves complex problems.
• 📕 A lifelong learner, expanding my horizon and helping others grow.

The Life of Ka Wo​

Whenever I meet someone new, they often pause and ask, "How do you pronounce your name?" I pronounce my name as "ka-wu". In Chinese（嘉禾）, my name means "copious harvest" 🌾, a reflection of my belief in high achievement through hard work and determination.

🕹️ Gaming​

My initial exposure to personal computer came through gaming. When I was little, I had a strong affinity toward gaming and sports.

After school, I would either play soccer ⚽ or basketball 🏀 with my friends. I was never really good at them, but I enjoyed my camaraderie and playing as a team.

At home, I would play different Gameboy Advance emulator games and spend hours perfecting my skills.

Fun facts: the first games I remembered playing were Tamagotchi and Digivice.

My passion for gaming led me to taking a computer programming class at high school. During the computer programming class, I learned my first programming language (C++), used my first IDE (Turbo C++), and developed multiple mini-games.

That year, I decided to become a software engineer.

🙌🏻 Now​

Fast forward to today, I have developed technical expertise and business acumen across numerous projects:

• At Qarik, I led an engineering team to build an AI system for underwriting loan using AI agents and RAG.
• At Vissibl, I built AI agents to generate compliance documents with human-in-the-loop verification and founded their engineering team.
• At Google, I built a connected factory solution and MLOps plugin for their connected product platform on GCP.
• At Microsoft, I built solution accelerators for enterprises to adopt Azure AI services.

Despite my prior experiences, I aspire to further sharpen my competence in building billion-user products and solving significant challenges. More importantly, I desire to build a future for my family.

🚪 Opportunities​

I enjoy learning and solving practical problems. If you are looking for advice on how to:

• Use technology to solve a real-world problem and scale efficiently
• Build and lead a high-performing engineering team
• Develop and deploy AI systems with measurable impact
• Create a multi-tenant SaaS service that scales

Feel free to send me an email.