🛠️ Forward Deployed Engineer Malaysia & Singapore

I’m Johnson Lai, a Forward Deployed Engineer in Malaysia/Singapore.

I help teams turn AI ideas into working systems: workflow automation, AI agents, local LLMs, RAG, evals, and production deployment. I work close to the team, understand the actual operations, and ship practical systems instead of slide decks.

Hand-drawn wizard penguin turning a rough team workflow road into a shipped agent system and reusable playbook

I help with Link to heading

  • AI workflow automation
  • Internal AI agents and tool-use systems
  • Local/private LLM deployment
  • RAG, evals, and quality gates
  • AI-native product and operations builds

Track record Link to heading

  • Consultation and advisory for fintech and listed-company teams on practical AI deployment.
  • Head of Data & AI at Chromia, building agent-first workflows for marketing, engineering, and operations.
  • Local LLM and GPU workflow experience across llama.cpp, vLLM, SGLang, Qwen, evals, and coding agents.
  • Crypto × AI experience across decentralized inference, on-chain agents, and verifiable AI systems.

If you need a Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Solutions Architect, or hands-on AI consultant in Malaysia/Singapore, reach me on LinkedIn or Twitter/X.