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Thomas Gabriel Chung

AI & Product Development

gabrielchung50@gmail.comTelegram @gabrielchunggabchung.net

Open to relocation and to business trips.

Profile

AI specialist with two master's degrees — artificial intelligence at MIPT and technological entrepreneurship at Innopolis University — and four years putting machine learning into production across research, startup and agency settings. Experience spans LLM fine-tuning and evaluation, retrieval-augmented generation, computer vision at scale, and the product work around them.

Experience

  1. Founder & AI Software Engineer — Afrimoll

    Mar 2026 — Present
    • Own the platform end to end: Supabase/PostgreSQL data model, authentication, storage and edge functions behind vendor, buyer and admin dashboards.
    • Shipped vendor subscription plans (a free listing tier and paid plans), storefronts, and product and service booking.
    • Ran A/B tests on plan packaging and onboarding, reading outcomes from event tracking and SQL cohort queries.
    • Integrated Google sign-in (own Google Cloud OAuth client), email (Brevo), and the Telegram and WhatsApp APIs.
    • Diagnosed and fixed production failures across row-level security policies, auth configuration, environment variables and gateway timeouts.

  2. Ambassador — International Computer Science Competition (ICSC)

    Jun 2025 — Present
    • Run workshops, mentorship and outreach to promote computer science locally.
    • Support students entering global competitions and deepening their engagement with technology.

  3. AI Software Engineer (Full-Stack Product Engineer) — Qenfi

    Nov 2025 — Apr 2026

    Lima, Peru (remote)

    • Owned delivery of a consumer-credit and device-financing platform, from architecture and Supabase/PostgreSQL data model to production launch.
    • Built admin and super-admin panels for applications, devices and credit operations, and a client portal for loan contracts, payment schedules and device status.
    • Implemented authentication and role-based access control across the admin, super-admin and client portals.

  4. AI Specialist — QuestMeUp

    Mar 2025 — Jul 2025

    Florida, USA

    • Designed and fine-tuned AI models for personalised assessments and adaptive user journeys.
    • Translated technical workflows into clear documentation for a non-specialist team.
    • Shaped the platform vision and AI roadmap so development stayed aligned to user goals.

  5. AI Engineer — GdeRadost

    Nov 2024 — Feb 2025

    Moscow, Russia

    • Raised response accuracy of a production AI assistant by 75% through prompt engineering, fine-tuning and systematic evaluation.
    • Shipped with engineers and analysts across departments.
    • Wrote evaluation reports and technical memos that informed deployment decisions.

  6. Founder, CEO & ML Engineer — GT Augment

    Mar 2022 — Dec 2024

    Abuja, Nigeria

    • Developed 3 proprietary AI models for education, marketing and AR-based engagement.
    • Secured $100,000 in funding and scaled across 3 countries to 1,000+ users.
    • Oversaw technical content, investor decks and platform documentation.

  7. AI Research Intern — Dugree

    Jun 2024 — Sep 2024

    New York, USA

    • Optimised LLMs for a 45% increase in model efficiency.
    • Contributed to 5+ research publications and presented findings at internal symposiums.
    • Authored research briefs and experimental documentation for cross-functional review.

  8. AI/ML Research Assistant — Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)

    Mar 2024 — Jul 2024

    Moscow, Russia

    • Built LLM-based educational models (LLaMA 3) for question generation, linked to a 60% improvement in student performance.
    • Co-authored academic publications and presented at AI education conferences.
    • Wrote technical specifications and user-behaviour analysis summaries.

  9. Technical Copywriter — SOAX

    Mar 2022 — Jun 2022

    London, UK

    • Created technical content on AI/ML, proxy networks, VPNs and web data tools.
    • Increased website and social engagement by 20% through clearer product writing.
    • Owned end-to-end drafting and editing within a five-person writing team.

Education

  • MSc, Modern State of Artificial Intelligence — Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Moscow, Russia2022–2024
  • MSc, Technological Entrepreneurship — Innopolis University, Innopolis, Russia2022–2024
  • BSc, Automation of Technological Processes and Production — Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, Voronezh, Russia2018–2022
  • Certificate, Project Management — Google via Coursera, Remote2023–2024

Skills

Machine learning
PyTorch · TensorFlow · Scikit-learn · Hugging Face · Transformers · Weights & Biases
Language models
Fine-tuning · Prompt engineering · RAG · Embeddings · LangChain · LLaMA 3
Engineering
Python · SQL · Docker · Git · Airflow
Languages
English — Native · Russian — C1 — Advanced

Awards & recognition

  • Ambassador — International Computer Science Competition2025
  • Finalist — Mathematics, master's level — All-Russian Olympiad2024
  • Winner — AI Hackathon — Latoken2024
  • Interview — AI and the future of urban mobility — KOTRA, South Korean Embassy, Moscow2024
  • Winner — startup grant, 1,000,000₽ — Russian Federation2023
  • Campus Ambassador — Yandex2023
  • Bronze — AR Hackathon — Innopolis University2022
  • Higher Scholarship Award for best students — Innopolis University2022
  • Winner — Russian Scholarship Project (AI) — Russian Federation2022