Fisher Kuan

Senior AI Architect & Engineer

Summary

Senior AI Engineer with 7 years building production AI systems, specializing in agentic engineering, GenAI/LLM applications, and end-to-end MLOps. Hands-on advocate for agentic development practices — driving adoption, running workshops, and architecting agentic systems for enterprise clients.

Skills

Agentic Engineering
Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, agentic workflows
GenAI / LLMs
RAG, prompt engineering, evaluation, Azure AI Foundry, LangChain
MLOps
MLflow, CI/CD, model lifecycle, monitoring, reproducible pipelines
Cloud & Data
Azure (Databricks, Azure ML, AI Search), AWS, GCP, vector/SQL/graph DBs
Languages & Frameworks
Python, PySpark, FastAPI, Docker, Airflow/Prefect

Experience

Senior AI Architect & Engineer — MbarQ (Belgium)

Apr 2025 – Present
  • Lead end-to-end GenAI engagements: discovery, architecture, hands-on implementation, and go-live support.
  • Championed company-wide agentic engineering adoption: led research and industry networking, hosted internal workshops on best practices, and built an internal scaffolding repository to standardize and accelerate team-wide adoption.

LaunchPad — Built a modular RAG accelerator framework on Azure for enterprise chatbot deployments; extended it with an agentic architecture to automate multi-step workflows. Tech: Python, FastAPI, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, Vue 3.

Fiducia 4.0 (Puratos) — Developed ML system predicting QC scores across multi-plant food production. Integrated raw material, process, and QC data sources into automated Azure ML pipelines. Enabled proactive quality control for Belgian and Mexican facilities.

AI Solution Architect & Tech Lead — Nemeon (Belgium)

Apr 2024 – Mar 2025
  • Designed and implemented GenAI solutions (document intelligence, process optimization) using LlamaIndex and LLM APIs.
  • Mentored engineers in applied GenAI patterns, delivery practices, and client communication.

BioSignature 2.0 (Johnson & Johnson) — Led consolidation of multiple microservices into a streamlined event-driven ML pipeline, reducing prediction turnaround from days to hours. Tech: Python, AWS (Step Functions, SageMaker), KServe, Argo, Kubernetes, Jenkins.

Senior ML & MLOps Engineer — Dataroots (Belgium)

Jan 2022 – Nov 2023
  • Coached junior ML engineers across the full lifecycle with emphasis on engineering quality.

Dynamic Pricing (Proximus) — Built RL-based dynamic pricing system driving 100% profit growth in nine months. Tech: Python, PyTorch.

Chatbot (BNP Paribas Fortis) — Developed a secure on-premises chatbot service using Llama 2.

AI Engineer — Arinti (Belgium)

Nov 2020 – Dec 2021
  • Streamlined pipelines with Azure Data Factory/Synapse and Azure DevOps.

Demand Forecasting (Unilever) — Developed sale and demand forecasting applications to reduce shortages and overproduction, shaping production strategies across facilities. Tech: Databricks, PySpark, Azure (Azure ML, Cognitive Services).

Data Scientist — Crunch Analytics (Belgium)

Nov 2019 – Nov 2020
  • Delivered NLP, web scraping, and optimization projects end-to-end; built feature extraction pipelines with BigQuery.

R&D Engineer — TSMC (Taiwan)

Jan 2015 – Aug 2018
  • Developed ML models for semiconductor packaging optimization; reduced product development timelines by 20%.
  • Led thermal/structural analysis workstreams influencing reliability and design decisions.

Certifications

  • Azure AI Engineer Associate
  • Azure Data Scientist Associate
  • Azure Data Engineer Associate
  • Databricks Associate Developer
  • TensorFlow Developer
  • Prefect Associate
  • Google Project Management

Education

  • MSc, Artificial Intelligence
    KU Leuven — 2018–2019
  • MSc, Materials Science & Engineering
    National Chiao Tung University — 2012–2014
  • BSc, Nano Science & Engineering
    National Chiao Tung University — 2008–2012

Languages

English (Fluent)

Mandarin (Native)

Dutch (A2)