Resume

Ronnie W.

AI Productization Builder | Apple Platforms | Agent Runtime & Local-First Systems

Summary

Independent product builder with hands-on experience across Apple platforms, local-first systems, AI productization, and workflow design. Strong at turning ambiguous ideas into usable products and reviewable systems, with emphasis on agent/runtime boundaries, observability, failure handling, and real-device constraints. Particularly suited to AI Product, AI Chatbot Product, and AI innovation/execution roles.

Selected Projects

eisonAI

Local-first reading system for macOS / iOS / iPadOS / Safari Extension

  • Built a shipped Apple product combining Safari Extension and app experiences, with on-device inference via WebLLM and MLCSwift.
  • Designed long-document routing and chunking around real token-budget and context-window constraints.
  • Productized the Cognitive Index concept to make structure visible before content and reduce reading friction.
  • Implemented bundled model assets and privacy-first local workflows with CloudKit sync.

Syncnext

Long-running tvOS media runtime

  • Built and maintained a tvOS media product over multiple years under real-device constraints.
  • Designed split runtime boundaries between native playback/focus control and external high-volatility source/plugin layers.
  • Solved problems across HLS/transmux, playback recovery, focus-system design, and Apple TV platform limitations.
  • Turned a non-typical app on tvOS into a maintainable runtime with plugin boundaries and operational resilience.

HLN Machine

White-box local AI video pipeline

  • Built a fully local, restartable multi-stage AI pipeline that turns a news seed into a completed short-form video.
  • Structured the system around IR.json, checkpoints, dependency hashes, partial reruns, and human-reviewable intermediate states.
  • Worked across LLM, VL, TTS, ASR, video generation, subtitle correction, and automation on macOS.
  • Focused on observability, controlled failure recovery, and white-box design instead of black-box magic AI workflows.

Experience

Founder / Independent Product Builder, 5ml Studio

2013 - Present

  • Own end-to-end product work from direction setting and system design to engineering delivery, debugging, iteration, and external communication.
  • Built products and systems spanning Apple platforms, AI workflows, local-first tools, and independent media/runtime projects.
  • Comfortable operating across product definition, UX/system structure, implementation, and long-term maintenance.

Product Designer / Product Contributor, Bitizen Wallet

Jul 2022 - Apr 2023

  • Contributed to a Web3 MPC wallet positioned around keyless security, DID, account abstraction, gasless transactions, and broad Dapp compatibility.
  • Worked across product presentation, onboarding/app guidance, UI test flows, campaign materials, posters, business decks, and partner-facing assets.
  • Helped translate Web3 wallet concepts into clearer user-facing communication and product materials for app users and ecosystem partners.

Earlier Roles

  • Product Manager, Shanghai Kunyou Information Technology | 2017 - 2018
  • Product Head / General Manager, Bankeys LTD | 2015 - 2016
  • UI Designer / Hybrid App Front-end Engineer, Gaia Technology | 2014 - 2015
  • Product Partner, Meilewang | 2014
  • Web Developer, Zhidalongji International Advertising | 2012 - 2013
  • PHP Developer, Sinoyuan | 2011 - 2012

Strengths

  • AI productization
  • Agent/runtime thinking
  • Local-first systems
  • Apple platforms: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, Safari Extension
  • Workflow design, observability, and failure handling
  • Product/system architecture
  • UX for complex tools
  • Independent execution from concept to delivery

Education

Guangdong Peizheng University | 2007 - 2010