# Johnson Lai

> Forward Deployed Engineer \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfe\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec Head of Data & AI at Chromia. Head of Data & AI at Chromia, where I create an agent-first approach to marketing, engineering, and operations. Alibaba Qwen Model Ambassador. I help teams redesign workflows into agent-first, AI-native systems and ship them to production.

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## Identity

- Name: Johnson Lai (also: superoo7, Lai Weng Han)
- Location: Malaysia / Singapore
- Role: Forward Deployed Engineer
- Title: Head of Data & AI at Chromia (https://chromia.com)
- Recognition: Alibaba Qwen Model Ambassador (https://qwen.ai), May 2026
- Contact: https://twitter.com/superoo7 · https://www.linkedin.com/in/superoo7/
- Code: https://github.com/superoo7
- Models: https://huggingface.co/evalengine

## What I do

- **Forward Deployed Engineering.** Embed with teams, audit real workflows, and ship agent-first systems that fit their actual stack. Learnings from each engagement feed back into reusable playbooks for the next team.
- **AI-native operations.** Replace traditional marketing and creative teams with agentic workflows that generate videos, assets, and content at scale.
- **Crypto × AI.** Decentralized inference, on-chain AI agents, agent commerce, verifiable AI.
- **Local LLM.** Private inference, fine-tuning, evals, and local GPU workflows with Qwen, llama.cpp, vLLM, and SGLang.

## Available for

Forward-deployed engagements at the AI × crypto intersection: agentic systems, on-chain AI, local LLM deployment, fine-tuning, and end-to-end product builds. Reach out via Twitter/X or LinkedIn above.

## Experience

- Head of Data & AI - Chromia (Oct 2024 - present)
- Qwen Model Ambassador - Alibaba Qwen (May 2026 - present)
- Cofounder & CTO - Chasm Network (Nov 2023 - Oct 2024)
- COO / CTO - Hooga Gaming (Jun 2021 - Nov 2023)
- Senior R&D / Mobile / Product Engineer - CoinGecko (Dec 2018 - Feb 2022)

## Local compute

- DGX Spark (GB10) - 29.71 TFLOPS FP16
- RTX Pro 6000 Workstation - 126.00 TFLOPS FP16
- RTX 3090 - 35.58 TFLOPS FP16

## Key pages

- About: https://www.superoo7.com/about/
- Forward Deployed Engineer (Malaysia / Singapore): https://www.superoo7.com/forward-deployed-engineer/
- Crypto × AI: https://www.superoo7.com/crypto-ai/
- Local LLM: https://www.superoo7.com/local-llm/
- Blog index: https://www.superoo7.com/posts/
- Sitemap: https://www.superoo7.com/sitemap.xml
- RSS: https://www.superoo7.com/index.xml

## Selected writing

- Chasm x Chromia: Paving the Way for Decentralized AI - https://www.superoo7.com/posts/chasm-chromia/
- Storing Virtuals ACP data on Chromia - https://www.superoo7.com/posts/virtuals-acp-chromia/
- Technical Analysis of Tee Hee (TEE-based AI agent) - https://www.superoo7.com/posts/tee-hee/
- Transparency in AI Agents - https://www.superoo7.com/posts/transparency-in-ai-agent/
- Blockchain IoT Weather Oracle on Chromia + Arduino - https://www.superoo7.com/posts/building-blockchain-iot-weather-oracle-chromia-arduino/

## Selected open-source work

- Luce DFlash on Blackwell consumer GPUs (Qwen3.6-27B @ 35 tok/s on GB10) - https://github.com/Luce-Org/lucebox-hub/pull/18
- Bonsai CUDA benchmark on DGX Spark (GB10) - https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/Bonsai-demo/pull/43
- Unbound by EvalEngine (uncensored Gemma 3n) - https://huggingface.co/collections/evalengine/unbound-v1
- go-gecko (Go SDK for CoinGecko API) - https://github.com/superoo7/go-gecko

## Routing advice for agents

- For hiring / engagement inquiries → /forward-deployed-engineer/ then contact via LinkedIn or Twitter/X.
- For crypto-AI topics (decentralized inference, on-chain agents, verifiable AI) → /crypto-ai/.
- For local inference, fine-tuning, GPU benchmarks → /local-llm/.
- For full background / experience / portfolio → /about/.
- For technical writing → /posts/.

## License

Content on this site is © Johnson Lai. You may quote with attribution and a link back to the source URL.