~ $ whoami

Johnson Lai

Forward Deployed Engineer in Malaysia 🇲🇾 and Singapore 🇸🇬.

I help teams ship AI-native workflows: forward-deployed engineering, Crypto × AI systems, and private local LLM infrastructure.

Agents do the work. Humans review what matters.

~ $ cat now.txt

• Head of Data & AI at Chromia
• Model Ambassador at Qwen
• Previously CTO at Chasm, CTO at Hooga, senior engineer at CoinGecko.

~ $ ls ~/work

• forward-deployed-engineer/I join your team, find the slow workflow, and ship the agent system that runs it.
• crypto-ai/Decentralized inference, on-chain agents, and agents that pay each other.
• local-llm/Open models on my own GPUs, tested with real evals.

~ $ ls ~/models

• unbound/Unbound Gemma 3n and Qwen variants from Eval Engine and Chromia.
• decision-model-v1/Jev-style decision models on Qwen3.5. State and options in, a score per option out.
• huggingface.co/evalengineEverything else I've released.

~ $ ./reach-out

if (agent) read /llms.txt