Hongda, like Honda. Yes, the car.

I was born in Harbin, went to middle and high school in Singapore, and came to Canada for university: a first Computer Science degree at the University of Toronto, then an Honours BSc in Computer Science at York’s Lassonde School of Engineering.

Today I’m an AI Agent Developer at Geotab in Toronto. I was the first engineer on the platform and, for most of its life, the only one. I designed the architecture, wrote the code, and run it in production. It is a multi‑agent system on Google ADK and Vertex AI: a root agent, a document sub‑agent wrapped in deterministic validators, retrieval with citations over a governed corpus, typed tools into BigQuery, Google Maps and the HR system, and self‑hosted Langfuse tracing, because the data cannot leave company infrastructure. The corpus is governed as code: a manifest reviewed in merge requests, and a daily job that watches the sources for drift.

Before that I spent a year on Geotab’s data enablement team building Airflow pipelines, DataHub lineage and Superset dashboards, and a summer at the Ontario Ministry of Health moving datasets from Oracle to Redshift. In 2023 I worked with Nick Feamster on email classification; the paper is in SPIE proceedings.

The one line people use about me is “he gets things done.” I don’t mind challenging the status quo when it improves the outcome.

Off the clock I play the sanxian, a three‑stringed Chinese lute. I’ve performed at the Toronto Dragon Festival, with the Toronto Artist Symphony Orchestra, and for the Chinese Embassy in Canada, which gave me an Outstanding Cultural Contribution award. I train jiu‑jitsu four times a week and have played badminton since high school.