Rizky Wellyanto
PhD Candidate
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRizky Wellyanto is a PhD candidate at UIUC researching personalized on-device Human-AI agents while building a digital copy of himself. With 11 years of experience across research, startups, and product engineering, he has led ML and full‑stack projects at UserTesting, Snap, PayPal, and Yahoo. He cofounded two startups—MoneyHub and Virtision—and founded TKA Developments, delivering Silicon Valley–grade apps at half the cost. At UserTesting he engineered a pipeline processing 4M test plans and deployed open‑source LLMs to cut LLM costs by an estimated 94%. Based in San Francisco, he blends hacker pragmatism and founder hustle to move AI research into practical, on-device deployments. His background spans HCI, AR/VR, and ML, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and product-first entrepreneurship.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
SMA Negeri 8 JakartaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Indonesian
Github Skills (11)
native-code10
pose7
react7
openpose7
react-native6
pose-estimation6
pytorch5
deep-learning4
makers2
threejs2
augmented-reality1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TKA-Developments/RN-Challenge
Feb 2021 - Sep 2021
React native code challenge for those who love to learn, build, and win! :)
Contributions:5 commits, 23 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 months
reactnative-codereact-nativecode-pushwin
RizkyWellyanto/rizkywelly.com
Jan 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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