Summary
Meng-chi Tsai is a data engineer and AI team lead with 11 years of experience building scalable data platforms and ML-driven products from Taipei. He has led GenAI tagging and recommendation systems for hundreds of B2B clients, combining LLMs, RAG, vector search, and classic IR techniques (BM25/LDA) to boost precision, CTR, and onboarding speed while keeping 99.95% SLOs. His work spans lakehouse design (Trino, Iceberg), high-performance PySpark + DuckDB pipelines, and resilient CI/CD on Kubernetes (ArgoCD, Kustomize), plus automated Airflow orchestration for hundreds of pipelines. Previously he architected distributed ingestion and transformation stacks that improved throughput by orders of magnitude and created production-ready ML features and explainable models for marketing use cases. He pairs hands-on backend and API engineering with product-aligned KPIs and team upskilling, regularly running knowledge-sharing sessions on prompt engineering and embedded models. Notably, he blends cutting-edge vector/LLM tooling with pragmatic infra optimizations to deliver measurable business impact across large client bases.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree Management Information Systems at National Taiwan University