Graduating Dec 2026 · Available Jan 2027

Devano Jonathan

AI Engineer & Data Scientist

Data Science and Engineering student at The University of Hong Kong, shipping autonomous agents and production machine learning at Hitachi Rail, Archbridge Capital and Quinlan & Associates.

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8: internships in AI, Data & Engineering
3: enterprise AI agents in production
1364: GitHub contributions in the last year
2026: HKICTA shortlist & bootcamp champion

About

Turning raw data into strategic impact through AI automation

Currently building autonomous agents that navigate complex professional tools with human-level reasoning, bridging the gap between technical insight and business execution.

Agentic AI
RAG Pipelines
Quant Finance
VLM Agents

Key Achievements

Next Station: Social Innovation for Inclusion Bootcamp 2026
Champion (1st Place). Served as AI Engineer & Prototype Designer for Team 6, building the core prototype for an AI-powered barrier-free navigation solution that tackles MTR entrance accessibility for elderly commuters and people with disabilities. Pitched its technical feasibility to senior judges from MTR Corporation, the HKU Faculty of Social Sciences & Caritas Mok Cheung Sui Kun Community Centre.
Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge 2024
2nd Runner-up in Asia-Pacific. Demonstrated advanced quantitative analysis and risk management strategies in a competitive trading environment against top finance students globally.
Saudi Arabia Algo Trading Challenge 2025
Global Finalist. Developed an algorithm that generated +21% return over 2 months using statistical arbitrage and advanced quantitative strategies.
Indonesia Maju Scholarship
Awarded full scholarship from Indonesian Ministry of Education via Informatics Olympiad National Finals qualification, recognising academic excellence and competitive programming prowess.

Education

The University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Engineering in Data Science and Engineering
Sep 2022 - Dec 2026 (Expected)
- Machine Learning
- NLP
- Big Data Processing
- Data Visualisation
- Probability & Statistics
- Data Structures
Impact Lab
Social Impact Leadership
Jan 2024 - May 2024
SMA Ignatius Global School
Natural Science
Jul 2019 - May 2022

Career

Work Experience

8 roles across AI, Data & Engineering

Jul 2026 – Present
Hong Kong SAR
Quinlan & Associates
Strategy Consulting
AI Engineer (Data Analyst)
- Built automated data pipelines that ingest, clean and reconcile client datasets, replacing manual spreadsheet handling across engagements
- Shipped a customer engagement application giving client teams a single view of account activity and interaction history
- Developed the job allocation engine behind it, matching incoming work to consultants by availability, skill fit and workload
- Instrumented the pipeline and app with KPI reporting so delivery and utilisation are tracked without manual collation
PythonSQLPipeline AutomationData VisualisationConsulting
Apr 2026 – Jun 2026
Hong Kong SAR
Archbridge Capital Partners
Asset Management & Private Equity
AI Engineer Intern
- Designed and deployed enterprise-wide AI agents enabling employees across departments to automate repetitive workflows
- Identified and prioritised 10+ automation opportunities through cross-functional workflow audits and feasibility analysis
- Built end-to-end RAG pipelines combining LLMs with proprietary knowledge bases for intelligent document processing and Q&A
- Orchestrated multi-agent systems using LangChain and custom prompt engineering for complex business process automation
OpenAI APILangChainRAGPythonLLMsPrompt EngineeringAI AgentsVector DatabasesAPI IntegrationWorkflow Automation
Aug 2025 – Jan 2026
Hong Kong SAR
Hitachi Rail
Software Placement Intern – Machine Learning
- Built autonomous VLM testing agent using Quantised Vision-Language Models on vLLM for UI automation
- Deployed REST API for real-time client-server communication enabling loop-testing without human intervention
- Integrated EasyOCR + OpenCV hybrid pipeline for screenshot verification against backend logs
- Automated VM provisioning via Python, creating scalable CI/CD for multi-server parallel testing
PythonvLLMVLMOpenCVEasyOCRREST APICI/CD
Reference letter
Jun 2025 – Aug 2025
Hong Kong SAR
Career Hackers (Speakmanity)
Summer Intern, Full Stack GenAI Developer – AI Research Team
- Built automated cheating detection system using speech-to-text for online interviews
- Improved detection accuracy by 30% via fine-tuned Sentence-BERT with cosine similarity
- Automated screening for 3,000+ candidates/cycle, saving ~100 hours of HR workload per batch
PythonSBERTNLPGenAISpeech-to-Text
Jun 2024 – Aug 2024
Hong Kong SAR
Entrio
Summer Intern, Research Analyst
- Architected market intelligence taxonomy categorising 1,200+ tech companies
- Led end-to-end data pipeline development achieving 99.8% accuracy
- Delivered 20+ sector analysis reports to Tier-1 investment banks
PythonExcelData Pipelines
Jan 2024 – Apr 2024
Hong Kong SAR
Foundation for Shared Impact
Data Analyst
- Engineered real-time dashboards tracking 25+ KPIs
- Automated monthly stakeholder reports serving 50+ stakeholders
- Optimised database queries reducing response times by 50%
Google Looker StudioSQLData Visualisation
Jun 2023 – Aug 2023
Hong Kong SAR
Hydro Kalon Limited
Web/Mobile Application Developer
- Collaborated on cross-platform GUI development for ML-powered virtual testing system
- Developed camera-based colour scanning mobile app using computer vision
- Engineered barcode-integrated storage management algorithm
Mobile DevelopmentMachine LearningWeb Development
Dec 2022 – Feb 2023
Hong Kong SAR
Langya AI Limited
Digital Marketing Intern
- Developed and optimised company website achieving 150% increase in organic traffic
- Created 20+ digital advertisement designs generating 2.5x engagement rate increase
- Executed integrated digital marketing campaigns reaching 50K+ audience
SEOWeb DevelopmentDigital Design

Selected Work

Featured Projects

Shortlisted: Hong Kong ICT Awards 2026, Digital Economy & FinTech Stream

ENOSIS: Unified AI Ingestion Engine

Turns trapped, unstructured trade paperwork into machine-readable standards with zero added work. Couples a custom multi-modal layout transformer (DocFormer-Trade, +14% over LayoutLM) with split conformal prediction bounds (UncertaintyGuard, p < 0.05) to hit 95.4% accuracy on manifests and a 94.2% zero-touch rate. Exports HKMA Commercial Data Interchange-compatible schemas so trade finance underwriters get automated, risk-quantified decisioning.

DocFormer-TradeConformal PredictionLayoutLMHS CodesHKMA CDIOCR

Details

Champion (1st Place): MTR Corporation × HKU Faculty of Social Sciences × Caritas

MTR Access+: AI Barrier-Free Navigation

Champion prototype from the "Next Station: Social Innovation for Inclusion" Summer Bootcamp. An AI-powered wayfinding app that solves MTR entrance accessibility for elderly commuters and people with disabilities. Scan an exit barcode, then follow AR turn-by-turn guidance along a verified step-free route to the nearest lift. Built as AI Engineer & Prototype Designer over an intensive two-weekend design sprint.

AR NavigationComputer VisionBarcode ScanningAccessibilityPrototyping

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SketchMath

Hybrid AI Architecture fusing LLMs (ChatGPT) with geometric engines (GeoGebra) to solve complex problems with >95% verified accuracy. Developed a Validation API that converts natural language into geometric constructions with alternative reasoning paths. Fine-tuning with Reinforcement Learning (PPO, GRPO, DAPO) to enforce logical consistency.

LLMsGeoGebraPPOGRPORLAPI

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PayoEAT: AI Restaurant Discovery

Architected a hybrid recommendation engine (Collaborative Filtering + LLM) that increased user retention by 40%. Built the "Tinder-for-Food" UI in React Native.

React NativeNode.jsMongoDBOpenAIRAG

Details Source Live

Autonomous VLM Testing Agent

Built at Hitachi Rail: High-throughput visual testing agent using Quantised VLMs on vLLM for low-latency inference. Autonomously interprets UI screenshots, converting visual semantics into executable X/Y coordinates. Integrated EasyOCR + OpenCV for hybrid vision pipeline.

VLMvLLMOpenCVEasyOCRREST APIRPA

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Hotel Price Optimisation

Revenue Optimisation Engine. Developed a Random Forest model that identified underpriced inventory, projecting a 15% RevPAR increase for Hong Kong hotels during peak seasons.

PythonScikit-learnRandom Forest

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Financial Analytics Pipeline

Multi-Modal Alpha Generation. Engineered a comprehensive ML pipeline combining NLP for sentiment analysis (BERT) and computer vision for chart patterns to identify high-probability trade setups.

TensorFlowBERTOpenCVNLP

Details Source Live

Climate Intelligence

Predictive Climate Modelling. Built an ensemble regression system that models sea-level rise trajectories through 2050, translating complex environmental data into actionable long-term forecasts.

PythonPandasMatplotlib

Details Source Live

Portfolio Evolution

Digital Identity Architecture. Designed a high-performance Next.js application with "Neuro-Marketing" UX principles, achieving <1s load times and optimised conversion paths.

Next.jsTailwind CSSFramer Motion

Details Live

Demographic Analyser

Population Intelligence. Uncovered key socioeconomic trends from census data using advanced Pandas manipulation, transforming raw statistics into policy-relevant insights.

PythonPandasNumPy

Details Source Live

Always Building

Still shipping, every week

1364

contributions on GitHub in the last year

Technical Expertise

The toolkit behind the work

Python

Expert

C++

Advanced

Intermediate

MATLAB

Intermediate

Bash

Advanced

TensorFlow

Advanced

Scikit-learn

Expert

Hugging Face

Advanced

OpenCV

Advanced

EasyOCR

Advanced

VLM

Advanced

LLMs (SBERT)

Expert

RAG Architecture

Expert

Agentic AI

Expert

NLP

Advanced

PyTorch

Advanced

Pandas

Expert

NumPy

Expert

Matplotlib

Expert

Seaborn

Advanced

Tableau

Advanced

Google Looker

Advanced

PySpark

Advanced

SQL

Expert

MySQL

Advanced

MongoDB

Intermediate

Excel (VBA)

Advanced

PivotTables

Expert

Financial Modelling

Advanced

Quant Analysis

Advanced

RPA

Advanced

REST APIs

Expert

Docker

Advanced

Git/GitHub

Expert

Jupyter

Expert

React

Advanced

Next.js

Advanced

Node.js

Advanced

Tailwind CSS

Advanced

Leadership & Community

Building data science literacy on campus

HKU Data Science Association

Co-Founder

May 2023 – Jun 2024

Hong Kong SAR

Community Building
Established a thriving community of 50+ members passionate about data science, machine learning, and AI applications.
Strategic Planning & Execution
Managed strategic planning to promote data science literacy across the university, organising workshops, hackathons, and industry networking events.

Community LeadershipData Science EducationEvent ManagementStrategic PlanningNetworking

Journal

Speaking, coaching and the work in between

2 posts

9 Sep 2026
Coaching
Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce
I will be an AI coach at the AI-Powered Workflow Automation Lab
This October I will coach executives, SME owners and NGO leaders at the AI-Powered Workflow Automation Lab, run by Esperanza with HKU at the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. One real workflow in, one working prototype out.
5 min readRead post
8 Sep 2026
Speaking
The University of Hong Kong
First talk at HKU: what two students did with AI agents
Today I gave my first ever talk at The University of Hong Kong, in IIMT3689 Cloud Computing. Not about a finished product. About what happens when two students decide to build something with AI agents, and the email that made the talk exist.
4 min readRead post

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Co-Founder JonathanSimpson&Co.

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Devano Jonathan

Turning raw data into strategic impact through AI automation

Key Achievements

Next Station: Social Innovation for Inclusion Bootcamp 2026

Bloomberg Global Trading Challenge 2024

Saudi Arabia Algo Trading Challenge 2025

Indonesia Maju Scholarship

Education

The University of Hong Kong

Impact Lab

SMA Ignatius Global School

Work Experience

Quinlan & Associates

Archbridge Capital Partners

Hitachi Rail

Career Hackers (Speakmanity)

Entrio

Foundation for Shared Impact

Hydro Kalon Limited

Langya AI Limited

Featured Projects

Still shipping, every week

The toolkit behind the work

Building data science literacy on campus

HKU Data Science Association

Community Building

Strategic Planning & Execution

Speaking, coaching and the work in between

Download My CV

Co-Founder JonathanSimpson&Co.