Lawrence Hua
Senior AI Product Manager · Hands-on AI Architect · Founder
Delray Beach, FL — relocating to San Francisco Bay Area
Senior AI Product Manager with 5 years spanning embedded engineering to 0-to-1 AI product ownership — ships production AI end to end: owned AI kiosk onboarding that cut merchant setup time 60% across 100+ merchants; cleared a 2,000+ ticket Jira backlog in one week with multi-agent swarms; shipped an ML upsell system in ~30 days for a 15% lift over prior logic. Hands-on architect — designs the architecture and builds the prototype (agentic systems, LLM/RAG, model evals, human-in-the-loop review). M.S., Carnegie Mellon.
Experience
Senior AI Product Manager
May 2026 – PresentAsurion
- Shipped 3 demo products (an AI voice agent, a sheets automation service, and a unified ops dashboard) as the sole builder on a two-person 0-to-1 AI innovation team, taking each from research to leadership demo in two-week sprints
- Gated voice-agent releases on an offline eval suite: LLM-judged synthetic dialogs scored against a numeric quality bar, regression replay fixtures, and pre-commit prompt checks
- Built a unified ops dashboard bringing task management, visualization, research, and user data into one place, with watchdog agents that detect failures, alert, and fix errors autonomously
- Architected production LLM systems on a vendor-agnostic, cost-routed model stack (Claude, GPT, Gemini, open models) with human-in-the-loop review
AI Product Manager
Sep 2025 – May 2026GRUBBRR
- Owned 0-to-1 AI-assisted kiosk onboarding (Square, Clover, Toast), cutting setup time 60% across 100+ merchants; led internal AI enablement — introduced agentic (Cursor-based) development, 7× faster dev cycles
- Shipped Smart Upsell recommendations in ~30 days using multi-source ETL with Apriori/XGBoost, driving a 15% lift over prior logic
- Cleared a 2,000+ ticket Jira backlog in one week by building multi-agent QA and dev swarms on the OpenClaw framework; the first 72 hours alone shipped 55 verified fixes at a 99.3% test pass rate. Scaled the swarms company-wide across QA, dev, marketing, and lead-gen
AI / iOS Tech Lead (Contract)
Oct 2025 – Jan 2026StylePilot
- Led 5 engineers across 3 time zones to a ~30-day MVP; owned end-to-end architecture — React Native, FastAPI, PostgreSQL/pgvector, and 4 AI services (Gemini Vision, CLIP, GPT-4o, virtual try-on) on AWS
- Cut cloud spend 85% and sped image processing 2.6x at 99.9% uptime
Founding Product Manager & Engineer
Aug 2024 – PresentExpired Solutions, LLC
- Founded an AI perishables platform (freshness scoring + markdown automation); validated with 4 months of in-store testing and 250+ shopper surveys; modeled 20% shrink reduction and a $200M+ opportunity
- Shipped an iOS app with on-device CV + LLM verification that cut quality-check time 50%, built on an ML pipeline over 3M+ produce images (YOLO + EfficientNet-B4)
- McGinnis Venture Competition Finalist; Sandbox Scholar
Embedded Android Engineer
Aug 2021 – Aug 2023Motorola Solutions
- Shipped embedded Android features (GPS, messaging, UI) for APX NEXT radios on 15,000+ public-safety devices; built automated ADB test suites (50% faster test-to-deploy)
- Resolved 80+ defects, cutting integration delays 25%; won 1st place at the Motorola Product Hackathon (NFC prototype)
AI Product Consultant & CS Instructor
Mar 2021 – PresentTutora
- Built an AI tutoring-ops tool (OpenAI, Zoom, Google Sheets, Calendar) automating scheduling, invoicing, and grading; saved 15+ hrs/week and scaled to 90 students
Selected Projects & Mentorship
30 Days of Product
Dec 2025Built and launched 30 AI-native web products in 30 days; 50,000+ tracked impressions.
Kearney × Bath & Body Works (Capstone)
Dec 2024Accepted GenAI prototype + RAG dashboard over unstructured docs, saving 18 hrs/week.
AI Founder Mentorship
2025 – PresentHustle Fund Angel Squad — mentoring AI founders on PMF/GTM.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
2023 – 2024M.S. Information Systems Management — Heinz College
Gerhalt Scholar · McGinnis Venture Competition Finalist
University of Florida
2017 – 2021B.S. Computer Science
Cum Laude · 3.65 GPA