Kao-wei ChenLos Angeles

AI Engineering Manager &
Forward Deployed Engineer.

Almost a decade leading engineering teams through AI rollouts, third-party integrations, and platform rewrites at McGraw Hill, Carnegie Learning, and Flipgrid (Microsoft). Currently open to EM and FDE roles.

What I do

Lead AI teams against real compliance bars

Enterprise LLM work in education and healthcare means "usually right" isn't acceptable. I build the evaluation, ETL, and responsible-AI scaffolding that lets a team ship inside compliance and keep shipping.

Pick the bets that actually pay back

Most generative-AI ideas don't return their cost. The job is separating the ones that do from the ones that don't — on throughput, unit economics, and defensibility, not novelty.

Turn integration work into enterprise wins

SSO, rostering, third-party APIs — the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether a deal closes. I've hardened this layer through the long tail of configurations that scale customers into the product.

Work

  1. 2025 – 2025
    McGraw HillEngineering Manager, AI
  2. 2022 – 2025
    Carnegie LearningEngineering Manager
  3. 2018 – 2022
    Carnegie LearningSenior Software Engineer
  4. 2016 – 2018
    Flipgrid (Microsoft)Software Engineer