Mountain View, California · Applied AI Engineer

Bucky Qian builds
AI people can use.

Frontend engineer turned Applied AI Engineer, building AI agents, RAG systems, and production LLM applications with product instinct.

AI systems with frontend product instinct.

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Bucky Qian
Applied AI Engineer

I learned to shape the interface.
Now I shape the intelligence behind it.

Applied AI Engineer with 4+ years of production software experience across Apple and Topify AI.

My frontend background shapes how I build AI products: latency should be visible, uncertainty understandable, and system quality measurable.

2025 — 2026

Topify AI

Frontend Engineer · AI SaaS

AI analysis · Realtime UX · Prompt Intelligence · Analytics · Growth

2021 — 2025

Apple

Frontend Engineer · Core Services

Accessibility · Performance · Platform modernization

Selected work.

Production AI product work, agent orchestration, and retrieval evaluation.

Topify AI

Production AI Search Intelligence

I owned core product experiences across realtime AI analysis, prompt tracking, competitor intelligence, reporting, onboarding, and conversion.

Realtime AI UIPrompt IntelligenceCompetitor AnalysisAgent ActionsAnalyticsGrowth

01 / Product overview

Product system / OverviewTopify AI Live
Topify AI production overview dashboard showing visibility, sentiment, position, share of voice, competitors, and agent actions
AI visibility / Competitor intelligence / Production01 / 02

02 / Realtime + agent detail

Making AI latency visible and usable.

Progressive states make analysis legible while reviewable agent actions turn signals into a clear next step.

SSE / Progressive stateHuman review
Realtime system / Agent detailTopify AI Live
Topify AI realtime analysis progress and generated optimization action
Analysis progress / Reviewable action02 / 02

AI Job Intelligence Agent

A coordinated agent workflow that connects role research, fit analysis, resume evidence, and interview strategy.

01User
02Triage
03Planner
04ACompany
research
04BJob
analyzer
05Resume analyzer
06Strategy agent
07Interview plan
ToolsStructured outputTracingEvaluation

RAG + Evaluation System

A retrieval pipeline designed to measure evidence quality before treating an answer as trustworthy.

01Documents
02Chunk
03Embed
04Vector store
05Retrieve
06Generate
07Evaluate
EvaluationPrecision@KRecall@KFaithfulnessAnswer Relevance

Frontend instincts.
Applied AI systems.

Years of product engineering taught me that model capability is only useful when users can understand what the system is doing, trust the result, and act on it.

That is the perspective I bring to Applied AI.