Dave Z. W.

Engineer Lead | AI Systems Architect | Agentic Workflows, LLM Infrastructure & Scalable Distributed Systems

New York, New York, United States

About

Staff Software Engineer and AI systems architect with 12+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, workflow orchestration platforms, and AI-powered products across LinkedIn, Meta, AWS, Workday, and other high-scale technology environments. My work spans full-stack engineering, distributed systems, retrieval infrastructure, AI-assisted content generation, workflow automation, and multi-agent architectures. I have led cross-functional initiatives involving large-scale backend platforms, semantic retrieval pipelines, embedding systems, AI-driven content workflows, and cloud-native infrastructure operating at enterprise scale. Recently focused on: • Agentic AI systems and orchestration frameworks • LLM application architecture and evaluation pipelines • Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and vector search infrastructure • Multi-agent development workflows and autonomous task execution • AI-native enterprise workflow automation • Healthcare operational AI and clinic workflow systems Previously: • Built and scaled distributed workflow systems at AWS • Led data validation and quality infrastructure initiatives at Meta • Developed AI-assisted advertising and content generation systems at LinkedIn • Designed optimization and cloud resource efficiency systems at Workday Interested in founding-stage AI companies, healthcare AI infrastructure, AI workflow automation, and scalable AI-native product systems.

Experience

  • Venture Scout at UpHonest Capital
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    - Led 20+ engineers across five cross-functional teams to architect and launch new advertising formats, including Primetime Ads, generating impressive acount of incremental revenue in the first year. - Architected generative AI-driven advertising systems leveraging customer data, retrieval pipelines, and adaptive creative generation workflows to produce customized ad creatives which contributing over hands of millions in revenue impact. - Designed and led development of a multi-agent advertising orchestration platform integrating ad creation agents, campaign management agents, and sales intelligence agents to deliver conversational AI workflows for enterprise marketing teams. - Built scalable agentic AI systems enabling marketers to generate campaigns, creatives, and user-generated content (UGC) through natural language interactions and AI-assisted workflow automation.

  • TL Engineer at Spokeo
    Mar 2023 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Lead Design and Development of company’s new flagship product - Enterprise API.

  • TL Engineer at Meta
    Feb 2021 - Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Led design and development of Meta’s Metric Accuracy Computation infrastructure, adopted by 2 Billion Uses of Facebook, Instagram apps.

  • Senior Software Development Engineer at Workday
    Dec 2018 - Feb 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Led a software engineer team in collaboration with ML engineers to design and develop a deployment allocation recommendation systems for multi-tenant services, optimizing hardware resource utilization.