George Zhang George Zhang

Principal AI Agent Engineer

Profile

10 years across large-scale platforms and AI engineering at Alibaba and SenseTime, now leading AI Agent platform architecture, productization, production delivery, and team AI engineering effectiveness.

Service scale
2k+ tenants / 230k+ users
Peak traffic
60k / day
Team scope
20-person product-engineering / 4-person AI Agent squad
Delivery efficiency
40 repos / ~10×

Experience

AI Agent Platform Lead YC

Owned product architecture and production operations for a cross-industry WhatsApp AI Agent SaaS serving 2k+ tenants, 230k+ users, and 60k peak requests/day across business AI Agents, RAG/Memory, tools and Skills, quality, cost, and team delivery.

AI Platform Architecture & Full-stack Engineering Independent Venture

Built and delivered independent AI data and model-serving products, owning product definition, system architecture, full-stack implementation, containerized deployment, and production iteration.

AIGC SaaS Architect SenseTime

Owned backend engineering and microservice architecture for AI image generation, model training, and platform products, contributing to 0-to-1 generative AI SaaS delivery.

Senior Web Frontend Engineer Alibaba Group

Worked across Alibaba Local Services commercial promotion and Taobao new-retail engineering on high-traffic cross-platform systems spanning ad delivery and attribution, live interaction, micro-frontends, SSR, and performance.

Full-stack Developer Ningbo Senpu Rongxun

Owned financial reporting, Java web services, and frontend migration from AngularJS to Vue with a shared Web UI component library.

Skills

AI Agent Platform, Harness, and Model Engineering

Agent Harness / Loop Engineering / Agentic RAG & Memory / Multi-agent Orchestration / Tool-use & MCP / Skills / Evaluation & Observability / Context Engineering / Model Serving, Routing & LLMOps

Retrieval and Data Algorithms

Embeddings / Reranking / UMAP / HDBSCAN / BERTopic & c-TF-IDF / LLM Clustering / Knowledge-gap Learning

Platform Engineering and Enterprise Integration

Python / FastAPI / TypeScript / Rust / Java / PostgreSQL / Redis / Milvus / Docker / Kubernetes / Microservices / CI/CD / Alibaba Cloud / Google Cloud

Education

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Online Education) Bachelor's / Computer Science and Technology
Xi'an Aeronautical Polytechnic Institute Associate Degree / Aviation Electromechanical Equipment Maintenance