Tony Hui

Head of Product (Engineering) | Coding 40%

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

About

I ship useful GenAI products to directly prod. My team (design and product) does too. I started with GPT-2 in 2019 before it was cool.

Experience

  • vidIQ (San Francisco Bay Area · Remote)
    • Head of Product
      Feb 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 5 mos

      transitioning product management and FE engineering into product engineering. transitioning product designers into design engineers coding even more now (~40% of the time). with AI, my output is equal to coding ~400% of the time in my prior engineering life

    • Product and analytics
      Apr 2022 - Feb 2023 · 11 mos

      Leading product management, product design, and analytics Coding less due to management responsibilities, but >10% of the time

    • Technical Product Manager
      Sep 2021 - Apr 2022 · 8 mos

      Building an AI co-producer for the creator economy at scale. Still coding 20% of the time

  • Indeed.com (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
    • Technical Product Manager
      Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

      - Led Natural Language Generation technology (GPT-3) from conception to launch applied to career advice, resume improvement, job description writing, and interview question answering. Collaborated with external partners (Megagon.ai and OpenAI) and cross-functional internal teams (Legal, Privacy, and AI Ethics). - Product Manager for Co-brands, a collection of 6 job search sites responsible for 125M annual visits. Highlights: Increased job alert signups by xx% and job applies by xx% through A/B tests. - Designed and built (with code) a trustworthy analytics funnel for a brand-new resume review product (Python, Presto) that enabled 14 A/B tests in the first quarter. - Cross company collaboration with teams in Seattle, Austin, and Tokyo to build source-of-truth analytics for strategic planning. - Extra Credit: Interviewed Product Manager candidates; 3rd place regional finalist in company hackathon.

    • Research Engineer
      Mar 2019 - Dec 2019 · 10 mos

      - Product science lead for the team, adapting an A/B test system for our product and directly supporting setup and analysis of 5-10 A/B tests per quarter - Enhanced resume building with suggestions powered by historical data and proved through AB testing, resulting in 50% increase in resume completions via A/B testing. - Scrum master and backend developer for a $200k backend rebuild for Resume.com, resulting in 3-fold faster response times and reducing release cycle time by 75%. - Extra Credit: Optimized candidate sourcing reducing time to hire by 4X.

  • EY (Full-time · 1 yr 2 mos)
    • Senior Consultant - Enterprise Intelligence
      Oct 2018 - Mar 2019 · 6 mos

      Gathered requirements from (Sr) Directors, provisioned privacy compliant databases for offshore development, wrote ETL scripts (SQL, R) to 100% verifiable accuracy, and built Tableau dashboards for a provincial insurer

    • Consultant - IT Advisory
      Feb 2018 - Sep 2018 · 8 mos

  • The University of British Columbia (3 yrs 5 mos)
    • Graduate Research Associate
      Sep 2014 - Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 5 mos

      DNA methylation heterogeneity in single hematopoietic stem cells

    • Fellow, Data Science for Social Good
      May 2017 - Aug 2017 · 4 mos

      Data-driven categorization of neighbourhoods using >150 variables for economic planning

  • Data Scientist at UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology
    Sep 2016 - Mar 2017 · 7 mos