Austin Cai is an engineering leader and product-minded AI engineer with 8 years of experience building ML-driven products from research to production. As an early founding engineer and current Eng Lead at Lumos, he scaled a core SaaS product to win enterprise customers and grew the company through multiple funding rounds while leading the autonomous identity engineering effort. His applied ML work at Adobe and DoorDash includes productionizing multilingual CLIP for image search and building demand-prediction pipelines that remained robust through COVID volatility. Trained at Stanford in ML and systems, he blends academic rigor with hands-on product delivery and low-level system optimizations—an uncommon mix that shows up in both prototyping research and shipping reliable production pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Modern Chinese History, Bachelor's degree Modern Chinese History at University of Oxford
Bachelor's degree Symbolic Systems - Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor's degree Symbolic Systems - Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University
Contributions:12 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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Austin Cai - Eng Lead & Manager, AI Engineering at Lumos