Full-stack · AI Systems

I build AI infrastructure and products that ship.

TOMMY ZHANG/MIAMI, FL/AI FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER/39 ESSAYS

Selected work

Things I built and ran

Kubilo AI POS

Co-Founder. Architected and built a multi-tenant restaurant order-management SaaS system, unifying AI phone orders, QR/web ordering, and walk-in POS into one real-time dashboard with role based access control. Integrated Stripe Connect payments (including Online and Offline), three-legged webhook reconciliation, an AI voice ordering agent, and Twilio A2P 10DLC SMS marketing component. Also shipped a cross-platform print agent, GitHub Actions CI/CD, and an idempotent migration/bootstrap pipeline enabling zero-touch cold-start deployments.

AI Voice AgentStripe ConnectTwilio A2P 10DLCGitHub Actions

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Palate

Palate is a global food taste community connecting cultures through authentic reviews. Features country-specific reviews, smart shopping lists for favorite retailers, and comprehensive coverage of major retailers nationwide.

ReactTypeScriptMaterial-UINode.jsMongoDBExpress

Ephemera

Ephemera is a real-time chat application built with Go and WebSocket, featuring hub-and-spoke architecture with careful concurrency management. Includes sliding window rate limiting, IP detection behind proxies, password-protected rooms with 5-minute access tokens, and room lifecycle management with user limits.

GoGorilla WebSocketJavaScriptHTML5/CSS3Docker

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Now

What I'm working on

Right now I work as a forward deployed engineer, which puts me in front of clients rather than behind a ticket queue: scoping what they actually need, then designing the AI capability integration that meets those requirements.

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