Richard (Yuxuan) Liao

ThemaLondon, UK

• Built analyst workflows around AI research agents, connecting planning, streamed results, research artifacts and company shortlists for market research and investment diligence.
• Made agent activity visible through tool-call inputs and results, with stop, retry and error handling. Added recovery so market creation resumes after page reloads or laptop sleep.
• Delivered company screening through AI-generated table columns and rubric-based evaluations, with web research, streaming updates and recovery after refresh.
• Developed a research and memo editor with version history, unsaved-edit recovery, embedded tables and nine chart types, enabling analysts to refine and export agent-generated research.
• Added Playwright end-to-end coverage, offline MSW mocks and CI reporting to validate research and evaluation workflows before release.
• Improved large-market navigation with virtualised lists and preloaded data; migrated charts to Recharts and removed approximately 30,000 lines of unused code.

ByteDanceShanghai, China

Promoted from Front-End Developer in Oct 2022

• Translated marketing and business development requirements into custom campaign pages and components, incorporating stakeholder feedback through rapid iterations.
• Built reusable React components for an internal low-code platform, enabling marketing teams to assemble and customise coupon and campaign pages for high-traffic launches.
• Led front-end delivery for the second of two consecutive Spring Festival campaigns, owning architecture, task allocation and complex features. Launched on schedule with no P0/P1 incidents during the event.
• Supported Douyin marketing pages serving millions of daily active users through automated UI testing, CI/CD, release assurance and on-call troubleshooting across web and hybrid apps.

Alibaba GroupHangzhou, China

• Developed government-facing applications in the DingTalk ecosystem, delivering three business iterations and five reusable components, including two cross-platform components built with Rax.
• Built a VS Code extension integrating the internal low-code platform into developers' workflows and automated internationalisation tasks. Published technical guidance and received a return offer.

Tron | Open-source AI terminal agent

tronai.dev | GitHub

TypeScript, React, Electron, Node.js, xterm.js, node-pty

• Built an LLM agent that plans multi-step tasks, executes commands in a real shell and uses output to choose subsequent actions and recover from errors, locally or over SSH.
• Added command permissions, dangerous-command checks, loop guards and persistent sessions across cloud and local models. Shipped macOS, Windows and Linux installers with 300+ downloads across GitHub releases.

Recast | AI writing and automation across apps

recast-ai.uk | App Store

TypeScript, Svelte, Tauri, Rust, Swift

• Built a macOS writing utility with pipelines chaining AI rewrites, shell macros and agent steps; added explicit command approval, streaming output and automatic model fallback.
• Released an iPhone companion on the App Store with keyboard, Share and Shortcuts integrations; shared prompt templates and provider behaviour across platforms.

Cipher Zero | AI deduction game

jev-games.com

TypeScript, Next.js, React, Socket.IO, SQLite, Jev, Docker

• Built and deployed a bilingual deduction game combining generated decks with Jev's structured judgments. Implemented solo and real-time multiplayer modes with server-controlled rules, persistent progress and reconnection.
• Implemented evidence retrieval, confidence thresholds and model fallbacks for uncertain answers; preserved unresolved candidates when evidence was missing or contradictory.

University College LondonLondon, UK

• Guided students through Next.js application development, explaining architecture and debugging projects using Prisma, NextAuth and SQLite.

University College London2024 - 2025

MSc Computer Graphics, Vision and Imaging | Distinction, 80%

Dissertation (86%): real-time gesture input on Meta Quest 3; snap detection AUC 0.967 with 156 ms latency.

University College London2018 - 2021

BSc Computer Science | First-Class Honours