LIANGJUN (LANCE) SONG, PHD

SENIOR ML ENGINEER · SEARCH, RECOMMENDATION & LLM SYSTEMS

WORK EXPERIENCE

WiseTech Global
Apr 2025 – Jun 2026
AI Engineer - AI/ML Group
  • Architected and optimized end-to-end LLM systems for two production support products — CWBot, a support chatbot, and TriageAgent, an automated ticket-triage agent — combining LangGraph orchestration, FastAPI services, Azure OpenAI, enterprise APIs, and durable PostgreSQL-backed state.
  • Designed RAG workflows with dynamic question rewriting, custom retriever factories, Azure AI Search integration, and heterogeneous internal data sources to improve how users find and act on operational knowledge.
  • Implemented guardrails for PII filtering, response steering, and human-in-the-loop review, plus checkpointing and recovery patterns for reliable multi-turn product experiences.
  • Led container-first CI/CD modernization for AI services, establishing Docker dev containers, GitHub Actions pipelines, readiness checks, and environment parity across local and deployed workflows.
  • Instrumented the production layer around the model — request tracing, structured logging, and token/cost accounting — to keep behavior and spend observable after deployment.
  • Maintained test coverage across backend, frontend, and system test sets, incorporating linting, type checks, quality gates, and release-readiness checks.
SGLang Framework
Feb 2025 – Present
Open Source Contributor
  • Contributing core optimizations to the SGLang framework (LMSYS / UC Berkeley) to accelerate LLM inference pipelines for state-of-the-art models including DeepSeek R1, Llama 3, and Qwen.
  • Working on backend runtime, distributed serving, and frontend prompt-language features to improve throughput, contextual routing, and controllability.
  • Leveraging AI coding agents (Claude Code) to navigate the large codebase, draft PRs, and review diffs, demonstrating an effective human-in-the-loop open-source contribution workflow.
Australia IT Group · AI Engineer Bootcamp
Feb 2026 – May 2026
Guest Instructor & Curriculum Designer — RAG, Multi-Agent Systems, Fine-tuning
  • Delivered 12+ sessions on production RAG, embeddings & vector search, multi-agent systems (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI), QLoRA fine-tuning, RAGAS evaluation, and applied AI (UI, PDF parsing, Text-to-SQL); all notebooks and slides committed to the cohort repo.
  • Designed Dispatch.AI, a 6-week hands-on course project in which 13 students built a production AI booking assistant incrementally — Pydantic state + Redis persistence, LangGraph agents, MCP tool server, multi-agent routing, NeMo Guardrails, RAGAS evaluation, and Docker + Render capstone; delivered the reference implementation, scaffold, and CI/CD grading pipeline.
Redbubble
Mar 2023 – Jan 2025
Data Scientist - Search & Recommendation Team
  • Led search and recommendation enhancements with Marqo vector search and GCP Vertex AI MLOps pipelines, improving add-to-cart rate by 0.5% and CTR by 10%.
  • Owned production ML workflows end to end, from analysis and offline evaluation through experiment design, deployment coordination, and post-launch metric review.
  • Designed ML/data infrastructure processing 100M+ user events for feature extraction, search relevance analysis, and downstream serving workflows.
  • Drove GA4 analytics migration to ensure data reliability across internal dashboard-driven A/B testing frameworks.
  • Optimized search relevance for long-tail queries, balancing retrieval quality, user behavior signals, and measurable business impact.
Redbubble
Jan 2021 – Mar 2023
Data Scientist - Content & Discovery
  • Shipped production content-classification and moderation systems using language-image models, reducing intellectual-property moderation risk and improving operational throughput.
  • Built image duplicate-detection and data-quality/anomaly-detection pipelines, and ran content tagging, taxonomy and SEO experiments to improve product discovery.
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SELECTED ML / AI SYSTEMS

Termly (GitHub)
2026
Creator & Lead Developer — forward-deployed onsite with healthcare customers
  • Built a document AI system for Australian medical contract automation: scanned PDF extraction, OCR correction, structured clause/entity extraction, validation, and risk analysis.
  • Implemented FastAPI/Pydantic services integrating Claude Sonnet, Azure Document Intelligence, Tesseract OCR, Docker, and healthcare-specific validation logic.
CallForMe (GitHub collaboration)
2026
Co-Creator & Lead Developer
  • Collaborating with a partner developer on an AI phone assistant MVP — call records, transcripts and summaries, AI risk analysis, and interactive hold-for-me call flows — built on Next.js/TypeScript with WebSocket real-time services.
Ultra OT (GitHub)
2026
Creator & Lead Developer — forward-deployed onsite with an occupational therapy practice
  • Built the practice's internal operations system onsite, iterating directly with the team: case flow, Jira-style tickets, calendar scheduling, geospatial clustering of clients by driving distance (Google Routes API) for visit-route planning, intake imports, and time/finance visibility (Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase).
Agentic Workbench (Remote Agent Workbench + AgentForge + BranchFlow · GitHub)
2026
Creator & Lead Developer
  • Built a multi-agent coding-agent collaboration system: Remote Agent Workbench (browser orchestration for Claude Code and Codex with live PTY terminal streaming, task persistence, and allowed-directory safety boundaries) and AgentForge (control plane running coding agents in parallel across isolated git worktrees, with PM2 management and auto-commit scheduling).
  • Built BranchFlow, a React/TypeScript nonlinear writing and prompt-orchestration workbench with branching story state, React Flow mind maps, and Obsidian Canvas export.
Voice AI Companions (RageZone · Elder Companion · GitHub)
2026
Creator & Prototype Builder
  • Built two voice-first AI companions: Elder Companion, an Expo voice app with ElevenLabs speech, a family dashboard, and a daily summary workflow; and RageZone, a WeChat Mini Program real-time communication assistant with Deepgram speech recognition, plus a corpus and evaluation scripts for conversation quality.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Research Asia
Jul 2012 – Jun 2013
Research Intern - Web Search and Data Mining Group
  • Developed Autosub, a collaborative project for generating video subtitles using advanced speech-to-text APIs.
  • Contributed to web page mining projects using data mining and time-series analysis techniques.

PUBLICATIONS

Towards Efficient Personalized Ranking
PhD Thesis, RMIT University
2020
Incremental Preference Adjustment: a Graph Theoretical Approach
The VLDB Journal (Core Rank A*)
2020
Continuous Summarization over Microblog Threads
DASFAA (Best Student Paper Award Runner-Up)
2017