Monica Wu
@wumonica
Senior AI Product Engineer building production LLM agents with eval harnesses, guardrails, and RAG systems.
What I'm looking for
I’m a full-stack product engineer who’s owned end-to-end product experiences, from design details to the code underneath. Coming from a BA in Art & Design, I can’t treat the interface as someone else’s problem—I focus on the whole loop between idea and shipped.
These days I build AI agents, especially agentic RAG systems with tool-calling and real-time intent routing. My Digital Twin project is live on Hugging Face Spaces, and I prioritize production reliability with an eval harness that isolates degradation by stage (chunking, embedding, retrieval, generation), plus privacy and integrity guardrails and real observability for latency, cost, and errors.
I’m also motivated by what works beyond the demo: at IQVIA, I validated local LLM inference on varied client-site hardware (Ollama + Llama 3.1) to establish a worst-case baseline.
I’m looking for an AI-native product engineering team shipping LLM features to real users, where I can help make the engineering path as trustworthy as the model itself.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
AI Product Engineer — Agentic RAG Systems
Aug 2025 - Present (11 months)
+ Shipped Digital Twin — a production RAG agent with agentic tool-calling and real-time intent routing to a human stakeholder. Python, OpenAI GPT-4.1 Mini, ChromaDB, Gradio. Live on Hugging Face Spaces.
+ Architected the pipeline so every layer — chunking, embedding, retrieval, context assembly, generation — is independently testable and swappable. Each component can be replaced without touching
AI Product Engineer
Wumonica Studio
Aug 2025 - Present (11 months)
Shipped Digital Twin, a production agentic RAG system with tool-calling and real-time intent routing for a human stakeholder. Built an independently testable/swappable eval pipeline (chunking, embedding, retrieval, generation) and implemented privacy/integrity guardrails.
Software Development Engineer 4
Inteliquet
Sep 2023 - Aug 2025 (1 year 11 months)
Ran worst-case feasibility testing for local LLM inference using Ollama and Llama 3.1 8B to support a locked local-deployment model. Delivered end-to-end features for clinical research applications in a regulated environment and consolidated multiple TypeScript/Angular components into a shared library with i18n localization.
+ Self-initiated feasibility testing of local LLM inference (Ollama, Llama 3.1 8B) on deliberately constrained hardware as a worst-case baseline for varied client-site environments — producing a go/no-go signal for AI features within a locked local-deployment model.
+ Owned features end-to-end — proposal through production — for clinical research applications in a regulated healthcare environmen
+ Migrated an enterprise Angular component library across 6 major versions (v8 to v14) with zero regressions in the design system under healthcare apps used by physicians and pharmacies nationwide.
+ Designed, built, and shipped the design system's core components end-to-end for an enterprise NPM library, owning everything from component specs to production code.
+ Authored component specifica
+ Shipped production features end-to-end for an enterprise payments platform processing $200M+/month in money movement in a regulated, high-reliability environment.
+ Diagnosed and resolved critical production defects in payment workflows through root-cause analysis.
+ Mentored 2 engineers through advanced Angular (RxJS, state management, lazy loading) via structured sessions and code review.
+ Built a production Angular/TypeScript interface integrated with REST APIs, enabling Microsoft partners and internal teams to publish and manage JSON schemas for automated web-page generation — shipped while coordinating across 2 internal engineering teams.
Software Development Engineer
Design Laboratory Inc.
Jan 2018 - May 2018 (4 months)
Built a production Angular/TypeScript interface integrated with REST APIs to enable partners and internal teams to publish and manage JSON schemas for automated web-page generation. Coordinated across two internal engineering teams during delivery.
+ Architected and shipped a full-stack product (React, Redux, Node.js, TypeScript) 0→1.
+ Made product and stack decisions end-to-end in a 4-person startup with no established playbook.
+ Set front-end technical direction and mentored 2 junior engineers through code review, maintaining production quality at startup speed.
+ Built and remediated accessible (WCAG-compliant) framework components in Angular, React, and TypeScript, deployed in production across ~50,000 Microsoft partner websites.
Software Engineer
Jetstream Software
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017 (3 months)
Built and remediated WCAG-compliant framework components in Angular, React, and TypeScript deployed in production across approximately 50,000 Microsoft partner websites.
+ Shipped bug fixes, analytics instrumentation, and SEO sitemap improvements for social and video features on NBCNews.com, a property serving tens of millions of users monthly.
Software Engineer
Next Step Staffing
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016 (4 months)
Shipped bug fixes, analytics instrumentation, and SEO sitemap improvements for NBCNews.com social and video features. Supported a high-traffic property serving tens of millions of users monthly.
Software Engineer
Sixth Ave Studios
Jan 2016 - Apr 2016 (3 months)
Built production web applications for digital signage across smart TVs, kiosks, and mobile, including performance and stress testing on real device constraints.
+ Built production web applications for digital signage across smart TVs, kiosks, and mobile, with performance and stress testing against real device constraints.
Education
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California State University Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art - Design Concentration
California State University, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Arts, Art - Design Concentration
Earned a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Art and Design.
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