Jui-Chi(Richie) Liu

M.S. Data Science, ASU
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Arizona, US / Taipei, TW
AWS AI Community Builder

Experienced professional specializing in Generative AI and Machine Learning solutions, with expertise in Cloud Architecture and Data Engineering across AWS, GCP, and Azure platforms.

3+
Years Experience
10+
Projects Completed
10+
Certifications
25+
Technical Skills
Richie

Experience

Professional journey in AI/ML, Cloud, and Data Science

Studio Associate, AI Guild - Next Lab

Next Lab, Arizona State University
Arizona, US
Oct 2025 - Present

Key Responsibilities

  • Built and integrated a multi-agent WhatsApp learning assistant on AWS ECS, enabling students to access AI-driven study support via a chat interface
  • Used LangSmith for LLM tracing, monitoring, and evaluation

Key Achievements

  • Enabled AI-driven study support for students through a conversational chat interface

Solutions Engineer (Contractor)

iKala Interactive Media Inc.
Remote
Aug 2025 - Apr 2026

Key Responsibilities

  • Migrated ETL processes from EC2 to AWS Glue to optimize performance
  • Deployed an AWS Landing Zone using Terraform (CAF), supporting solution design and driving implementation of AWS Control Tower, SSO-based access, IAM, and centralized security services

Key Achievements

  • Reduced ETL processing time by 40% through Glue migration
  • Enabled scalable governance across 80+ AWS accounts

Solutions Architect

iKala Interactive Media Inc.
Taipei, Taiwan
Oct 2024 - Jul 2025

Key Responsibilities

  • Designed and deployed secure AWS environments with DR sites and HA architectures for MongoDB workloads on EC2, using VPC peering, WAF, and CloudFront for government clients
  • Led presales and GenAI solutioning for 60+ customer engagements, delivering high-fidelity PoCs and technical demos using Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, Vertex AI, and AgentSpace to accelerate customer adoption

Key Achievements

  • Improved availability and compliance for government clients
  • Accelerated customer adoption through impactful PoCs and demos

Data Scientist Intern, IT-AI

Advantech Co., Ltd.
Taipei, Taiwan
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024

Key Responsibilities

  • Applied time-series analysis with Amazon Forecast for demand planning
  • Built a multi-agent system with LangGraph, exposing GraphQL APIs and integrating a NoSQL datastore, deployed on Azure using Docker Compose
  • Implemented a video translation platform integrating open-source LLMs and neural networks with a Gradio interface

Key Achievements

  • Achieved 90% accuracy in demand forecasting
  • Reduced R&D issue resolution time by 30% with multi-agent system
  • Improved translation speed by 50%

AWS Educate Cloud Ambassador

Amazon Web Services Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025

Key Responsibilities

  • Led a 7-member team within an Agile framework using Jira
  • Hosted an AWS Amplify and Amazon Bedrock workshop for 80+ participants, demonstrating the use of Bedrock Flows and agentic workflows to build a GenAI chatbot for concert data analysis and visualization
  • Delivered live online AWS training sessions via YouTube Live for 400+ participants, covering Amazon Q Developer, SageMaker, Route 53, and CloudFront
  • Conducted a hands-on workshop using CloudFront and Lambda@Edge

Key Achievements

  • Built serverless email system reducing workload by 80% at $1.94/month
  • Achieved 4.85 average satisfaction rating across training sessions
  • Earned 4.9 satisfaction rating for CloudFront/Lambda@Edge workshop
  • Launched a six-month certification program with 1,000+ registrations

Cloud Developer Intern, AI&Data

eCloudvalley Digital Technology Co., Ltd.
New Taipei, Taiwan
Feb 2024 - May 2024

Key Responsibilities

  • Optimized ETL with AWS Glue and PySpark for large-scale data processing
  • Leveraged AWS Personalize to build recommendation systems

Key Achievements

  • Reduced data preprocessing time by 20%
  • Achieved 90% precision marketing rate with recommendation system

Featured Projects

Production-grade AI/ML and cloud infrastructure projects delivering measurable business impact

AI Psychology Test Platform
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AI Psychology Test Platform

Enterprise-grade AI platform for AWS Community Day Taiwan serving 7,500+ users. Architected scalable infrastructure with CloudFront CDN, WAF security, and Lambda/DynamoDB rate-limiting. Implemented SageMaker fine-tuning (QLoRA) for personalized AI responses.

Impact

5.0/5.0 workshop satisfaction • 7,500+ completions • Zero downtime

Technologies

AWSSageMakerCloudFrontLambdaQLoRA
AWS Education Platform & Automation
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AWS Education Platform & Automation

Production serverless platform for AWS education programs (TPET & AWS Educate Taiwan). Built microservices-based email automation system using Lambda and SES, enabling hands-on workshops for 200+ participants.

Impact

80% workload reduction • $1.94/month operational cost • 200+ trained

Technologies

AWS LambdaSESDynamoDBServerlessMicroservices
Gogoro Gen AI Customer Service Chatbot
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Gogoro Gen AI Customer Service Chatbot

AI-powered customer service chatbot developed for Gogoro's Gen AI Hackathon. Implemented LLM-based conversational AI to handle customer inquiries about electric scooters, battery swapping, and services with natural language understanding.

Impact

Hackathon winner • Real-time response generation • Multi-turn conversations

Technologies

LLMOpenAILangChainPythonRAG
WhatsApp Learning Chatbot — ASU AI Guild, Next Lab
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WhatsApp Learning Chatbot — ASU AI Guild, Next Lab

AI-powered educational system delivering personalized learning experiences directly within WhatsApp, addressing the global digital divide. Students ask questions, take dynamically generated quizzes, and track progress via conversational AI. Educators upload content (PDFs, presentations, videos) and monitor engagement through a web dashboard. Built with LangGraph multi-agent orchestration for intent routing, question answering, quiz generation, and progress tracking. Evolved from Flask + Ollama + ChromaDB prototype to production AWS ECS Fargate microservices architecture.

Impact

Personalized AI tutoring on low-end smartphones & 3G networks • Multi-agent LangGraph orchestration • Production AWS ECS Fargate deployment

Technologies

LangGraphFlaskChromaDBAWS LambdaAPI GatewayECS FargateWhatsApp Business API
AWS Educate Taylor Swift Data Analytics Workshop
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AWS Educate Taylor Swift Data Analytics Workshop

Interactive data analysis workshop using AWS analytics services to explore Taylor Swift's music data. Guided 80+ participants through hands-on exercises with S3, Athena, QuickSight, and Glue for ETL pipelines and data visualization.

Impact

80+ participants trained • 4.8/5 satisfaction • Open-source curriculum

Technologies

AWS AthenaQuickSightS3GlueData Analytics
SCM Demand Forecast Optimization System
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SCM Demand Forecast Optimization System

Enterprise AI/ML solution for Advantech's supply chain management, integrating AWS Forecast with GenAI platform. Built data preprocessing pipeline with Python/Jupyter on Azure, featuring SAP HANA plugins and custom LLM models for demand forecasting. Improved prediction accuracy through automated feature engineering and real-time visualization.

Impact

Production SCM system • Enhanced forecast accuracy • Enterprise data integration

Technologies

AWS ForecastGenAISAP HANAPythonAzureLLM
Proprietary Project - Under NDA
AI-Powered Video Translation Platform
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AI-Powered Video Translation Platform

Scalable multilingual video translation solution for Advantech's marketing team, enabling rapid localization of press releases and promotional videos. Deployed on Azure VM using open-source components: Meta Demucs for vocal separation, OpenAI Whisper/FunASR for speech recognition, Azure OpenAI GPT-4o/Qwen for translation, and XTTS for text-to-speech synthesis.

Impact

Mass-scale video localization • Multi-language support • Marketing automation

Technologies

Azure OpenAIGPT-4oWhisperMeta DemucsXTTSPython
Proprietary Project - Under NDA
Multi-Agent R&D Automation System
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Multi-Agent R&D Automation System

Enterprise AI solution for Advantech's R&D department using LangGraph multi-agent architecture. Built with GraphQL API, containerized microservices (Docker), and MongoDB backend. Implemented automated backup/restore system with Azure Blob Storage for data resilience and historical tracking.

Impact

40% faster issue resolution • Automated data backup • Production deployment

Technologies

LangGraphGraphQLDockerMongoDBAzureMulti-Agent
Proprietary Project - Under NDA
ViewSonic AWS Cloud Adoption Framework
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ViewSonic AWS Cloud Adoption Framework

Led implementation of AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for ViewSonic's global organization, designed by AWS ProServe. Architected multi-account strategy with 50+ AWS accounts across 7 departments using AWS Control Tower, focusing on organizational governance, network architecture, security controls, billing management, and SSO integration.

Impact

50+ AWS accounts • 7 departments • Enterprise-grade governance

Technologies

AWS Control TowerAWS OrganizationsIaCTerraformSecurityNetworking
Proprietary Project - Under NDA
ViewSonic AWS Web Scale Migration
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ViewSonic AWS Web Scale Migration

Migrated ViewSonic US team's web infrastructure to AWS managed services using Terraform IaC. Implemented EC2 Auto Scaling, RDS Aurora MySQL, OpenSearch, ElastiCache Redis, EFS, and WAF across dev/staging/production environments. Provided architecture optimization, data migration support, and CI/CD pipeline recommendations.

Impact

3 environments • 10+ AWS services • Reduced operational overhead

Technologies

TerraformAWS AuroraOpenSearchElastiCacheWAFAuto Scaling
Proprietary Project - Under NDA
SmartCard — iOS Credit Card Rewards Optimizer
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SmartCard — iOS Credit Card Rewards Optimizer

iOS app that helps users maximize credit card rewards by recommending the optimal card for each purchase. Maintains a database of 60+ US credit cards, tracks rewards across fixed, rotating, and selectable bonus categories. Features OCR-powered receipt scanning, spending analytics, home screen widget, and cross-device Firebase sync.

Impact

60+ credit cards supported • OCR expense logging • Real-time reward optimization

Technologies

SwiftSwiftUIMVVMWidgetKitVision OCRFirebase
AI Fitness Coach — WhatsApp Personal Trainer
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AI Fitness Coach — WhatsApp Personal Trainer

AI-powered personal fitness assistant operating through WhatsApp. Users track workouts, nutrition, sleep, and weight while receiving intelligent suggestions and automated reminders via chat. Supports meal logging via text or photos with Claude Vision for macro estimation, personalized training plans, and a customizable "Soul System" for coach personality.

Impact

Photo-based meal analysis • Automated reminders • Personalized training plans

Technologies

PythonClaude APIWhatsAppOpenAI WhisperSQLiteCron
WhatsApp Claude Plugin
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WhatsApp Claude Plugin

WhatsApp channel plugin for Claude Code that connects WhatsApp as a linked device and bridges messages to a Claude Code session. Enables two-way messaging, voice transcription, group chat support, permission relay system, cron scheduling, and 24/7 operation via MCP (Model Context Protocol).

Impact

Two-way WhatsApp ↔ Claude Code bridge • Voice transcription • 24/7 operation

Technologies

TypeScriptBaileysMCPWhatsApp APIClaude Code
Smart Infrastructure Inspection System (MVP)
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Smart Infrastructure Inspection System (MVP)

MVP prototype developed for 2025 Taiwan GenAI Hackathon by Ambassador Avengers Assembly. Designed edge-cloud architecture concept using Advantech ICAM-540 camera with YOLOv11 for real-time anomaly detection. Terraform IaC deployment on AWS (Bedrock, Lambda, S3, OpenSearch).

Impact

Hackathon MVP • Edge-cloud architecture design • Proof of concept

Technologies

AWS BedrockYOLOv11LambdaTerraformDockerEdge AI

Technical Skills

Specialized in AI/ML, Cloud Infrastructure, and Data Engineering with hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, and Azure platforms.

Languages & Programming

PythonCC++JavaRSQL/NoSQL

ML & Data Science

PyTorchTensorFlowScikit-learnDeep LearningData PipelineData Analytics

Generative AI & LLM

LangChainLangGraphQLoRARAGFine-tuningMulti Agent

DevOps & Deployment

DockerGitLinuxCI/CDIaCNextJSReactClaude Code

Professional Certifications

Multi-cloud expertise validated by industry-recognized certifications

4
Google Cloud Platform
4
Amazon Web Services
2
Microsoft Azure

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