Lawrence Hua

Asurion

• Turn research into working prototypes and demos on a two-week cadence for internal AI innovation.
• Build AI and multi-agent workflows for internal automation, using evaluation gates and human review before release.
• Architect vendor-agnostic LLM systems, selecting models for task fit, cost, and quality.

GRUBBRR

• Reduced kiosk onboarding time 60% across 100+ merchants by streamlining the AI-assisted onboarding flow.
• Delivered a 15% lift over prior logic by shipping Smart Upsell recommendations in ~30 days with ETL and Apriori/XGBoost.
• Cleared a 2,000+ ticket Jira backlog in one week by building multi-agent QA and development swarms.
• Shipped 55 verified fixes in 72 hours while maintaining a 99.3% test pass rate.

StylePilot

• Led a 5-engineer team across 3 time zones, delivering 6 TestFlight releases in ~30 days.
• Architected 4 AI services with React Native, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, and pgvector.
• Reduced cloud spend 85% through RDS optimization and 3-to-1 EC2 consolidation.
• Improved image processing 2.6x with parallel batching and model changes at 99.9% uptime.

Expired Solutions, LLC

• Founded an AI perishables platform for freshness scoring and markdown automation; validated through four months of in-store testing and 250+ shopper surveys; modeled a 20% shrink reduction.
• Cut quality-check time 50% by shipping an iOS app with on-device CV and LLM verification.
• Built a 3M+ produce-image ML pipeline using YOLO and EfficientNet-B4.
• McGinnis Venture Competition Finalist; Sandbox Fund Recipient (Spring 2025)

Motorola Solutions

• Shipped APX NEXT Android system extensions improving GPS accuracy, device security, and UI responsiveness.
• Coordinated agile planning across firmware, Android, radio, and test automation for 15,000+ field units.
• Resolved 80+ defects and cut integration delays 25%.
• Won first place at a Motorola Product Hackathon with an NFC messaging prototype.

Tutora

• Saved 15+ hrs/week by automating tutoring operations serving 90 students.
• Built scheduling, invoicing, and grading automation with OpenAI, Zoom, Google Sheets, and Calendar.

• Built and launched 30 AI-native web products in 30 days; 50,000+ tracked impressions.

• Saved 18 hours/week for store managers through an enterprise LLM decision-support tool.
• Delivered an accepted GenAI prototype with a RAG dashboard for enterprise store-manager decision support.

• Mentor AI founders on PMF and GTM through Hustle Fund Angel Squad.

M.S. Information Systems Management, Heinz College

B.S. Computer Science