Summary
Rizky 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