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Toby Siu

AI Engineer

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Certified AI Engineer experienced in designing, evaluating, and deploying enterprise AI solutions, including LLM applications, RAG systems, agentic workflows, data pipelines, analytics, and cloud-based applications.

Experience

DHL Data & AI GmbH

Bonn, Germany

Associate AI Engineer

May 2026 – Oct 2026
  • Engineered data ingestion and processing pipelines for DHL’s Document AI, integrating Gemini through the enterprise GenAI Gateway and using rasterized pages to improve document extraction.
  • Built Grafana dashboards to monitor API costs, token usage, and errors across AI services, supporting cost optimization and operational troubleshooting.
  • Developed comprehensive Power BI dashboards to monitor conversational analytics, automated resolution rates, and user-flow performance for the Deutsche Post & Parcel AI voice bot (Jana).
  • Built a Pydantic AI multi-agent system for DHL’s internal-control validation, with Python orchestration, deterministic compliance checks, and agent tool calling for approved rule and template retrieval.
  • Developed a GenAI React-based web application for summarizing feedback, including an interactive frontend and structured AI-generated recommendations for DHL Consulting.
  • Designed the backend with MongoDB and RabbitMQ for the DHL Express Customs AI Agent.

ALTEN Technology GmbH

Hamburg, Germany

Data Analyst (Part-time) – Technical Direction (Back Office)

Aug 2021 – Apr 2026
  • Built and deployed a domain-specific RAG chatbot for aircraft technical manuals, optimizing retrieval precision through hybrid search and semantic chunking.
  • Built a centralized Power BI dashboard tracking operational KPIs for more than 2,000 consultants. Automated data ingestion with Power Query M, reducing reporting time by 80%.
  • Deployed scalable LLM applications using Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio, integrating agentic workflows to automate business processes.
  • Engineered a containerized GenAI project-management platform on Azure, using context-aware prompts to populate complex templates from uploaded technical documentation and reducing project initialization time by up to 60%.
  • Developed Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate and Power Apps) solutions for cross-functional digital-transformation initiatives, collaborating with HR, Finance, and Project Directors to align business requirements and project deliverables.
  • Built ETL and ELT pipelines using Microsoft Fabric Dataflows and Databricks to support analytical data models for 10+ dashboards.
  • Coordinated user acceptance testing with Project Directors across more than three German regions for a cost-center automation project.

BASF East Asia Regional Headquarters Ltd.

Hong Kong

Intern – Global Controlling, Dispersions & Pigments

May 2020 – Oct 2020
  • Developed and evaluated regression models in Python using scikit-learn for sales forecasting.
  • Built a supplier recommendation system using collaborative filtering to reduce churn rate.

Education

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Lüneburg, Germany

M.Sc. Management & Data Science

Oct 2021 – Oct 2026
  • Master’s Thesis: “From Reactive Control to Holistic Planning: Evolutionary Prompt Optimization for Hybrid Deterministic-Neural Agents in Long-Horizon Environments” — open-source Python agentic LLM framework with a deterministic engine, constrained decoding, and evolutionary prompt optimization.
  • Focus areas: Machine Learning, Neural Networks, LLMs, AI Agents and Foundation Models

City University of Hong Kong | Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Hong Kong | Lüneburg

B.A.S. New Media (School of Creative Media), Grade: 3.48/4.3 (3× Dean’s List) | B.A. Digital Media, German Grade: 1.8/5

Sep 2015 – Jul 2020
  • Bachelor’s Thesis (Grade: 1.3): “Deepstory: A New Storytelling Experience”
  • Double Degree, Focus areas: Machine Learning, UX/UI, HCI, Visual Communication and AI Ethics

Projects

Co-founder – HKLawyer.ai

Jun 2025 – Present

A free bilingual AI platform that helps users access and understand Hong Kong legal information.

  • Built and shipped a full-stack legal AI chatbot used by the public, answering more than 20,000 questions and owning the RAG pipeline design, backend, frontend, and deployment.
  • Implemented hybrid-search RAG combining dense retrieval and BM25 sparse retrieval across more than 20 years of Hong Kong Judiciary data to optimize retrieval accuracy for bilingual legal queries.
  • Implemented an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation and guardrail workflow, achieving an 80% pass rate across 100 test queries against defined factuality and response-quality criteria.

Bachelor’s thesis – Deepstory

Apr 2020 – Jun 2020

AI storytelling system using GPT-2 and a custom-trained text-to-speech model to generate videos.

  • Engineered an end-to-end real-time inference pipeline, serving a fine-tuned GPT-2 model and a custom PyTorch TTS model through a production Flask web app.
  • Built a custom audio-preprocessing pipeline for segmentation and silence normalization.
  • Trained DC-TTS convolution models in PyTorch using preprocessed audio and transcriptions.