Wade Deng

AI Architect · CTO / Technical Co-Founder

AI architecture and platform leader with 16+ years across IT, backend, data, and AI engineering. I take systems from use-case discovery and prototype validation through pilot launch, production rollout, and operational support.

16+ yearsIT, backend, data, and AI engineering
3 startupsCo-founded with the same core team
Client-facing + Individual ContributorServed e-commerce and finance/accounting clients with 100M+ GMV

Experience

Founder-minded technical leader with hands-on ownership across AI runtimes, agentic workflows, data platforms, fintech, e-commerce automation, and enterprise productivity.

MaybeAI (maybe.ai) — CTO / Technical Co-Founder

2025/01 - Present · AI runtime and agentic workflow platform
  • Defined runtime architecture for model routing, tool governance, MCP integration, memory and retrieval boundaries, execution state, and business-system integration.
  • Built core workflow execution, MCP tool invocation, automation orchestration, and production support systems.
  • Supported e-commerce clients with over 100M GMV and improved operational efficiency.

XCelsiorAI — CTO / Technical Co-Founder

2024/06 - 2025/01 · AI productivity
  • Built an AI-native spreadsheet product embedding AI functions and workflows into Google Sheets and Excel.
  • Validated AI productivity use cases and won 1,000 pilot customers in the early product phase.

Footprint Analytics — CTO / Technical Co-Founder

2021/10 - 2024/06 · Web3 data platform
  • Built a platform indexing 30+ chains for 12k+ analysts and 50+ global B2B crypto customers.
  • Led a 25-person engineering team while owning platform, data, product architecture, and roadmap alignment.
  • Delivered PB-scale ETL with Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Doris/StarRocks with sub-second API latency.

Infigo Technology & Guanchen Technology — IT Manager

2019/01 - 2021/10 · Global digital lending
  • Built and improved AI-driven lending systems for Latin America and Southeast Asia.
  • Introduced SMS, bank-statement, and face-liveness signals into credit scoring models.
  • Improved model performance from AUC 0.63 to 0.79 and KS 0.21 to 0.34.

Nowdone Technology — Quant Director

2018/01 - 2019/01 · Crypto market making
  • Managed a crypto market maker with 3M USD AUM and researched 10+ mid-frequency strategies.
  • Top strategy delivered 15% annualized return with -10% maximum drawdown.
  • Built an ultra-low-latency C++ / Python trading stack near OKX and Deribit.

Cailue Financial Technology — Director of Engineering

2016/01 - 2018/01 · Digital lending
  • Led engineering for a digital lending platform serving 10M+ users and processing more than 2B USD in transaction volume.
  • Built a P2P portfolio management system to improve risk control and reduce financial exposure.

Kalengo — Senior Software Engineer

2013/03 - 2016/01 · E-commerce
  • Built an e-commerce platform supporting 10M+ buyers and 1M+ sellers.
  • Contributed backend systems for marketplace scale, transaction flow, and seller operations.

Langoo — Software Engineer

2009/07 - 2013/03 · Commercial software
  • Worked on commercial product development and backend system implementation.

Core Skills

AI Architecture Agentic Workflows Hermes Agent OpenClaw AutoGen / LangChain MCP Tooling Semantic Search Python / FastAPI Go / C++ Kafka / Flink / Spark Doris / StarRocks Data Quality & Evaluation Technical Leadership

Selected Systems & Platform Work

FinClaw Financial Data Governance & AI Workflow Platform

2026/03 - Present · Led a traceable finance and e-commerce data foundation with Raw / Bronze / Silver / Gold layers, skill dispatch, field contracts, data-quality gates, duplicate detection, lineage tracking, and benchmark evaluation.

Python SQL Hermes Agent Dagster dbt

AI Runtime & Workflow Execution Platform

2025/01 - 2026/01 · Owned chat execution, multi-agent orchestration, workflow dispatch, 40+ tool integrations, model routing, execution state, memory / retrieval, and business backend coordination.

Python FastAPI AutoGen Redis MongoDB Qdrant

MCP Tool Discovery & Semantic Search Backend

2025/01 - 2026/01 · Indexed 100+ MCP servers and 2,000+ tools through metadata enrichment, lifecycle management, vector indexing, semantic selection, and synchronization across storage and search layers.

FastAPI MongoDB Qdrant Redis

Seller BI & E-commerce Automation Platform

2026/01 - Present · Built multi-store analytics and AI monitoring workflows that reduced recurring report preparation from 4 hours to 10 minutes, covering GMV, orders, AOV, margin, ACOS, ROI, inventory, and anomaly detection.

Amazon Shopee Lazada TikTok Shop Kingdee Dagster

Prompt, Context & Skill Infrastructure

2025/06 - Present · Standardized product and architecture context across 50+ repositories, maintained 20+ reusable skills, and helped teams adopt AI-native workflows with a 30% productivity improvement.

MCP Prompt Engineering Context Engineering

AI Excel Spreadsheet Execution Infrastructure

2025/06 - Present · Maintained spreadsheet runtimes for workbook I/O, sheet state, formula recalculation, caching, sheet APIs, AI workflows, and backend integration.

Go Python PostgreSQL Excelize Google Sheets API

On-Chain Data Modeling & Analytics Infrastructure

2021/10 - 2024/06 · Built reusable blockchain data components and production pipelines for analyst-ready datasets, metrics, and APIs; reduced cloud cost by 30% and shortened metric production and validation by 20%.

Trino dbt Spark Iceberg BigQuery Airflow

Google Sheets AI Add-on & Formula Runtime

2024/06 - 2025/01 · Built custom formula execution, retrieval, transformation, summarization, and sidebar workflows; won 1,000 pilot customers and reached 4K+ Google Workspace Marketplace installs.

Google Apps Script JavaScript Python React

Tech Talks & Presentations

🤖 AI / LLM

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Enterprise AI Presentation

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AI Agent Development Team Presentation cover slide

AI Agent Development Team Presentation

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AI Agent: Developer's "Silicon Teammate" -- Advanced Version cover slide

AI Agent: Developer's "Silicon Teammate" -- Advanced Version

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Agent Framework Comparison 2026 cover slide

Agent Framework Comparison 2026

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Agent Harness: How Agents Get Smarter cover slide

Agent Harness: How Agents Get Smarter

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Why Your Skill Isn't Triggering article cover

Why Your Skill Isn't Triggering / How Hermes Agents Choose the Right Skill

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Self-Evolving Skills article cover

Self-Evolving Skills: Design, Boundaries, and Limits

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Keeping Context Stable article cover

Keeping Context Stable in Long-Running Agents / Long Conversations

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How I Ship Features with Codex and Claude Code in 2026 article cover

How I Ship Features with Codex & Claude Code in 2026

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Anthropic MCP — Model Context Protocol

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Navigating the Era of Large Models

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📊 Modern Big Data

Big Data 101/102 — Intro

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Big Data 201/202 — Parallel Computing

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Big Data 301 — Hands-on Spark

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Big Data 303 — SQL Technique

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Big Data 304 — Spark in Deep (S01)

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Big Data 305 — DBT

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Big Data 401 — Spark in Deep (S02)

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Big Data 402 — Streaming

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Blockchain Analytics with Apache Doris — Singapore Meetup

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⛓️ On-chain Data Analysis

Web3 Data Analytics Platform — Project Examples

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Wallet Profile / Modeling with On-chain Data

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Tracking Crypto Cashflow — Stable Coin Example

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☁️ Modern Cloud & DevOps (2016–2020)

System Security Status — Security Best Practices

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HAProxy Configuration — Load Balancing & Logging

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🛠️ Modern Languages & Frameworks (2014–2016)

Golang — Language Overview

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Design Patterns in JavaScript — Architecture Patterns

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JSConf 2014 Hangzhou — Conference Insights

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⚙️ Backend Infrastructure (2013–2015)

Jenkins CI & Unit Testing — Continuous Integration

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Backend Development Training — Best Practices

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Grunt for Backend — Task Automation

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📱 Mobile Development Era (2012–2014)

PhoneGap Basics — Mobile Development

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🔄 Modern Development Practices

Git Workflow — Version Control Best Practices

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Agile Development — Methodology Overview

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