CZCi ZhuData + AI operator

Based in Toronto, Canada System online

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Build systems.
Ship intelligence.

A hands-on data and AI leader with 10 years of experience moving from architecture to adoption — building the platforms, teams, and operating systems that make transformation stick.

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Operator / 01Ci ZhuData + AI systems
0110 yrsData + AI delivery
0210–15%Data platform cost reduction
0325+Source systems integrated
0410+Production agent skills developed
01 / SELECTED OPERATIONS

Outcomes over theatre.

Enterprise work, framed as problems solved—not a wall of technologies.

Microsoft FabricCASE / 01

Enterprise data platform, rebuilt for scale

Led the assessment, architecture, and change program for an enterprise migration to Microsoft Fabric across five core business units.

MEASURED OUTCOME

Reduced Azure SQL and compute costs by 10–15% through platform consolidation, capacity management, and performance tuning.

FabricLakehouseMedallionPower BIFinOps
OPEN SOURCE / 001
ONTARIO GRID / PUBLIC DEMO
01RELATIONSHIP MAP
02PROVENANCE + LIFECYCLE
03RENDERED DOCUMENT VIEW
TECHNICAL ALPHA199 commits • Python 3.11+ • AGPL-3.0
CURRENT FLAGSHIP BUILD

MirrorArc

A governed documentation layer for both people and AI agents—built to turn changing Office files, PDFs, repositories, datasets, and notes into a source-backed knowledge workspace.

  • Keeps original records authoritative while deterministic Markdown mirrors stay refreshable
  • Connects evidence through a relationship map, provenance inspector, and document view
  • Gives agents durable context without requiring a vector database
  • Ships a provenance-documented, 50+ file Ontario electricity evidence demo
02 / EXPERIENCE LOG

From query to strategy.

A career built by moving outward: from technical depth to organizational leverage.

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2024—NOW

Enercare

Senior Manager, Data Strategy & Analytics

Leading an eight-person cross-functional team across enterprise data infrastructure, Fabric transformation, applied AI, governance, and platform economics.

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2017—2023

LG Electronics

Senior Manager, Digital Transformation & Data Science

Progressed from BI developer to senior manager; led analytics teams and delivered forecasting, automation, enterprise SaaS integration, and decision systems. Recipient of the LG Excellence and LG Ovation awards.

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2013

University of Waterloo

Teaching Assistant, Calculus

Led tutorials, exam reviews, and targeted mathematical support — an early foundation for translating complex systems clearly.

03 / AI ENGINEERING

Engineer the agent,
not the demo.

My AI work centers on coordination, reusable expertise, governed evidence, and the delivery system around the model.

A—01CAPABILITY

Multi-agent systems

I design coordinated agent teams as operational systems: explicit roles, bounded authority, observable handoffs, and independent review contexts.

The engineering focus is on separation of duties, least-privilege tools, approval currency, bounded retry loops, failure contingencies, and evidence that survives beyond a single session.

OrchestrationRole separationTool useGuardrails
A—02CAPABILITY

Agent skill engineering

I have developed 10+ production agent skills that turn expert data and cloud workflows into reusable, discoverable capabilities.

Examples include database assessment, data-lineage and dependency scanning, and Azure cost intelligence—with explicit trigger rules, progressive context, validation gates, and safe fallbacks.

DB assessmentLineage scanningAzure cost intelligenceSkill design
A—03CAPABILITY

Applied LLM systems

I build agents that meet people inside real enterprise workflows, grounded in governed evidence rather than disconnected model output.

Work includes RAG knowledge systems, Azure AI Foundry and AI Search, plus LLM-assisted catalog, relationship, and transformation-logic generation for data teams and business users.

RAGAI SearchFoundryKnowledge systems
A—04CAPABILITY

Evaluation + delivery

I treat evaluation, observability, cost, and deployment discipline as part of the AI architecture—not an afterthought.

That means CI/CD/CT patterns, measurable acceptance gates, review loops, capacity economics, and a safe path from experiment to governed production.

EvalsMLOpsObservabilityAI governance
04 / EDUCATION

Theory with
operating range.

Optimization, strategic behavior, learning systems, and business application are not separate chapters—they are the intellectual spine of my work.

THE THROUGHLINE

Optimize decisions. Learn from systems. Build for people.

Mathematics gave me a language for constraints, trade-offs, networks, and strategic behavior. The MMAI program added modern learning systems and the management discipline to deploy them responsibly. That combination still shapes how I engineer AI today.

ACADEMIC RECORD / 012011—2015
University of Waterloo
FOUNDATIONAL LENS

University of Waterloo

Honours Mathematics

Mathematical Optimization • Operations Research • Joint Honours Statistics

Waterloo taught me to model decisions before optimizing systems—and to stay rigorous when the objective, constraints, or other players change.

Mathematical OptimizationNon-linear OptimizationGraph TheoryGame TheoryStatistics
  • Ranked #2 in a three-player Prisoner’s Dilemma strategy competition.
  • Served as a Calculus teaching assistant, leading tutorials, exam reviews, and one-to-one problem solving.
ACADEMIC RECORD / 022020—2021
Smith School of Business at Queen’s University
APPLIED AI + BUSINESS

Smith School of Business

Master of Management in Artificial Intelligence

Queen’s University

The MMAI experience connected model design to adoption, economics, and executive decisions—the bridge between technical possibility and business value.

Machine LearningDeep LearningReinforcement LearningNatural Language ProcessingAI Strategy
  • Applied NLP techniques and prior industry experience in a capstone project with BLG, a Canadian law firm.
  • Experimented with GPT-2 in academic projects before ChatGPT’s public launch.
05 / ACTIVE QUESTS

What I’m building now.

Public work in motion—because credibility should leave a trail.

Q—001SHIPPING

MirrorArc v1

A local-first, governed documentation layer that connects changing sources to durable knowledge for people and AI agents.

Q—002PUBLISHING

Field notes

Practical writing on enterprise AI, Fabric economics, knowledge systems, and the craft of transformation.

Q—003SEEKING

Design partners

Teams with document-heavy operations, strong provenance needs, and an appetite for disciplined AI adoption.

OPEN CHANNEL

Recruiting • Partnerships • Design partners • Good questions

Let’s build the system behind the ambition.