Xinwei Xiong
Founding AI Engineer
0→1 / Product Systems / Validation Gates
I own architecture, delivery, validation and kill criteria from problem discovery to a working system, then stop or resequence when paid demand fails.
Engineering Signals
Experience
getyak
Independent AI Product Engineer
Shipping agent runtimes and native iOS/web products with automated release and regression.
Telepace AI
Founder / Product Engineer
Owned backend, async pipelines and Kubernetes delivery; stopped after 0 paying users.
OpenIM
Open-source Intern, then Community Contributor
Ranked #1 with 358 contributions; delivered 11-service Helm, API/E2E CI and contributor governance.
Selected Systems
Telepace AI
Founder / Product Engineer
Led an AI feedback analysis SaaS spanning asynchronous data pipelines, real-time web interaction and Kubernetes deployment.
- Owned Django/Celery, Next.js/WebSocket and Kubernetes delivery; with first paying user at 0, stopped after 28 Oct 2025 and identified premature dual-region infrastructure as a sequencing error.
DayPage
Solo Product Engineer
Lightweight capture is compiled by an LLM into a personal knowledge network; next layer: user-defined Skills → agent execution → artifacts returned to the UI.
- Shipped lightweight multimodal capture, LLM compilation, a Markdown/YAML vault and graph-backed retrieval; seven-day backfill + Local-to-iCloud integrity checks.
OpenIM
Open-source Intern / Community Contributor
Owned deployment, CI and contributor governance in a large Go IM project; reached #1 on GitHub's contributor graph.
- Delivered 11-service Helm/Helmfile, API + E2E CI, and RFC, DCO, PR-review and release governance.