AI Infrastructure Engineer

August Zheng

Toward world-class AI systems.

Engineering the infrastructure for reliable intelligence. Focusing on performance, scalability, and system integrity.

Based in TorontoAvailable for collaboration

About

Useful first. Reliable always.

The AI world doesn't need another demo. I build systems meant to be used: ones that solve a real problem, cite their sources, and behave the same on the thousandth request as on the first. Currently at IBM watsonx; previously Vector Institute, and a founding role at YouWoAI.

Background

Education

University of Toronto

2023 — 2027

Honours Bachelor of Science·Double Major in Computer Science & Statistics·GPA 4.0

Where I've worked

AI Engineer @ IBM

Internship·May 2026 — Present

  • On the watsonx Context Manager team, building and testing the RAG system powering IBM's products at enterprise scale.
  • Own retrieval pipelines end-to-end, from ingestion to ranking.
  • Build evaluation harnesses to keep responses accurate and reliable.

Contact

Open to interesting problems
and the people solving them.