Tan En Yao

AI Engineer | Building production RAG & GenAI systems | Python · PyTorch · FastAPI · AWS | Ex-AI Singapore

Singapore

About

AI/software engineer with experience building and deploying ML, RAG, and industrial IoT systems. My recent work spans semantic retrieval for RAG workflows, ML inference services, computer vision models, FastAPI backends, Docker-based deployment, CI/CD, MLflow, AWS/EKS, Snowflake, and production runbooks. Before moving into AI, I worked in industrial automation and IoT, delivering factory and energy-sector deployments involving Modbus, MQTT, PLC integration, secure remote access, and onsite troubleshooting. I'm most interested in production AI systems: turning models, retrieval pipelines, and automation workflows into reliable software that users can actually adopt.

Experience

  • Data Scientist at MANN+HUMMEL
    Apr 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    Building knowledge graphs and ontologies, semantic document chunking, and retrieval evaluation for enterprise RAG, improving retrieval recall by 16%

  • Associate AI Engineer at AI Singapore
    May 2025 - Feb 2026 · 10 mos

    Fine-tuned DINOv3 for geospatial segmentation (83% IoU, +23 pts over baseline), served via FastAPI, Celery, Redis, Docker, and MLflow.

  • Senior IoT Engineer at CRYSTAL CLEAR ENVIRONMENTAL PTE LTD
    Dec 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

    Designed and deployed custom IoT integrations for BESS and industrial monitoring, saving S$50K in integration cost per deployment.

  • Auk Industries ()
    • Presales Engineer
      Oct 2021 - Mar 2022 · 6 mos

      Scoped IIoT solutions with manufacturers and built machine-connectivity demos capturing live factory data into dashboards.

    • IIoT Engineer
      Sep 2019 - Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Delivered IIoT pilots across Southeast Asia end-to-end, building brownfield connectivity with OPC UA, Siemens S7, and gateways.

  • Research Engineer at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology
    Mar 2018 - Sep 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Built industrial IoT prototypes and delivered hands-on IoT training to industry professionals.