AI engineering leader and entrepreneur who built large-scale production systems at Google, Meta, and LinkedIn—and helped take Silicon Valley AI startups from zero to scale. Now building enterprise AI agents that turn complex workflows into measurable business results.

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Currently
Building enterprise AI agents
Built at
Google · Meta · LinkedIn
Based in
Menlo Park, California
Shan Huang

Career

From large-scale infrastructure to production AI agents, each role built toward systems that make complex work more reliable.

CTO, SupplyWhy.ai

Oct 2025 - Present

San Francisco Bay Area

Leading engineering at SupplyWhy, where we are building production AI agents for enterprise supply chain planning.

Founder & CEO, Forma Cloud

Apr 2023 - May 2025

Menlo Park, California

Founded Forma Cloud to explore AI-native content and media products before generative AI workflows became mainstream.

Los Altos, California

Founding VP of Engineering at Artera, helping take the company from stealth to a production-ready healthcare AI organization. Built the engineering team from scratch, delivered a HIPAA-compliant AI product in roughly six months, and led product engineering, cloud infrastructure, security, SOC 2 Type 2, GDPR, internal tooling, and AI/data support.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led infrastructure and security during a critical healthcare AI scaling phase. Built and grew the function across AWS, Kubernetes, engineering reliability, IT, and internal platforms, and led the company's first HITRUST certification and CyberGRX Tier 1 assessment.

Founding Engineer, Cresta

Mar 2018 - Aug 2019

Palo Alto, California

Founding engineer at Cresta, building cloud and development infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and testing. Created real-time agent coaching infrastructure, AI training pipelines, model back-testing tools, and early customer-facing chat capabilities used in pilots.

Software Engineer, Meta

Jun 2016 - Mar 2018

Menlo Park, California

Worked on large-scale infrastructure and integrity systems at Meta. Tech lead for parts of Configerator, building package distribution, canarying, repository synchronization, and API observability, then contributed to spam storage and fake-account detection pipelines operating across billions of users.

Mountain View, California

Led the full-stack modernization of LinkedIn Learning content production systems after the Lynda acquisition. Migrated a decade-old author portal into LinkedIn's modern application stack and owned frontend, backend, and deployment work.

Software Engineer, Google

Aug 2014 - Sep 2015

Mountain View, California

Built internal storage and video-pipeline infrastructure, including a distributed caching file system backed by Google's internal storage systems that reduced operating costs by millions of dollars per quarter. Also supported release coordination and production reliability.

Schaumburg, Illinois

Built large-scale supply chain forecasting, demand sensing, inventory optimization, forecast reconciliation, and simulation systems for global CPG and retail enterprises including P&G, Walmart, Target, Unilever, Kraft Foods, and Kimberly-Clark.

Buffalo, New York

Researched transportation systems, route guidance, fuel-consumption optimization, and human factors in cyber-transportation systems, building an early foundation in optimization, decision support, and real-world human-in-the-loop systems.

Side Projects

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Orbit Blade

Move, spin, and survive in a fast browser arena with orbiting blades.

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Moonveil AI Inc.

Moonveil AI turns one high-value workflow into a reliable AI agent your team can launch, use, and own. We deliver production-ready AI agents for finance, healthcare, and operations in 4–8 weeks.

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Stock Signals Scanner

An hourly market scanner that highlights potential dip-buying and top signals using RSI, Bollinger Bands, volume, and long-term trend indicators.

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Real-time Translation Tool

An AI-powered real-time translation tool that enables seamless communication across languages. Perfect for meetings, conferences, and international collaborations, providing instant and accurate translations with support for multiple languages.

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Rednote Article to Image Converter

Convert long articles into multiple beautifully formatted images, perfect for sharing on platforms like Rednote (Xiaohongshu). Transform your written content into visually appealing posts that engage audiences on social media platforms.

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MYNITTEC - Award-winning Traffic Information System

In 2009, I independently designed and developed a traffic information system MYNITTEC that serves users in the US and Canada. It was recognized as the best intelligent transportation system of 2010 by the New York State Intelligent Transportation Association. This system continues to serve residents of the US and Canada today. In 2010, I received the "Upstate New York Young Transportation Professional of the Year" award, becoming the first professional to receive this honor since 2005.

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Education

Bachelor's Degree, Engineering Project Management

Tsinghua University

1999 - 2003

Master's Degree, Intelligent Transportation Systems

Tsinghua University

2004 - 2006

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Artificial Intelligence

University at Buffalo

2008 - 2011

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