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Michael Chen · AI Engineer

Building Just‑in‑ Time software with AI agents.

Michael Chen
Currently
AI SWE @ Epoch — Zerg / ZTC
Incoming
Full‑time @ Epoch · Jul 2026
Email
michaelluochen1@gmail.com
Profiles
GitHub · LinkedIn
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§ 01 / Selected Work

Case studies.

04 featured · 2023 — present
№ 01 Zerg Oct 2025 — present
Live · Core systems

Zerg ↗

Thesis

A software framework that writes and maintains itself — just-in-time.

Contribution
Engineered core systems for Zerg, an autonomous coding-agent platform. Built multi-agent simulation infrastructure for enterprise decision scenarios — extracting domain plugins, hardening HTTP/SSE runtime surfaces, and modeling tool, meeting, event, and lifecycle workflows for long-running agents. As a Forward Deployed Engineer for an aerospace customer, architected continual-validation and embedded evaluation harnesses that score outputs against deterministic state, tool, artifact, browser, and visual oracles.
Details
RoleAI SWE Engineer
OrgEpoch
DomainAgent infra
StatusIn production
01
JIT
Build paradigm
02
Multi-agent
Enterprise sim
03
FDE
Aerospace deploy
04
5
Eval oracle types
Agent PlatformMulti-agent SimEval HarnessHTTP/SSEPython
№ 02 ZTC 2025
Shipped · Agentic terminal

ZTC — the terminal, thinking. ↗

Thesis

A Claude-Code-style agentic terminal with parallel tools, isolated worktrees, provider routing, and a live web mirror.

Contribution
Built ZTC's execution engine: parallel tool dispatch so agents don't wait in line, background sub-agents that run long tasks without blocking the main loop, worktree-isolated batch execution for clean multi-repo edits, provider routing across model backends, and a real-time web mirror that lets humans watch autonomous multi-step coding unfold in the browser.
Details
RoleEngine design
OrgEpoch
StackTypeScript, WS
StatusInternal tool
01
‖
Parallel dispatch
02
n bg
Sub-agents
03
Worktree
Isolated batches
04
Live
Real-time mirror
Tool DispatchSub-agentsWorktreesProvider RoutingWebSocketsTypeScript
№ 03 PHiLIP Nov 2023 — Jul 2024
Awarded · AMD Pervasive AI

PHiLIP ↗

Thesis

Image generation with a human in the loop — two-second inference, seventy-one presets, infinite refinement.

Contribution
Designed a human-in-loop image production platform that compresses the generate/review cycle to two seconds. Fine-tuned PixArt-α on AMD ROCm, stacked Stable Diffusion upscaling, and built 71 style presets for rapid exploration. Presented a live demo at AMD Advancing AI 2024 in San Francisco.
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Details
AwardAMD University · $2.5k
Entrants8,200+
StackPyTorch, HF, ROCm
TeamEngineers @ UCR
01
2s
Inference time
02
71
Style presets
03
$2.5k
Prize
04
8.2k
Contest entrants
DiffusionHuman-in-loopPixArt-αROCmPyTorchHuggingFace
№ 04 Check Dec 2025 — present
Beta · Live at check-tau-taupe.vercel.app

Check ↗

Thesis

An API that catches LLM hallucinations by voting seven verification paradigms against each other.

Contribution
Architected a seven-paradigm verification engine with FPR-weighted consensus voting. Parallel method execution via Promise.all(), mathjs autoformalization for symbolic proof generation, and BiPRM × Formal cross-paradigm confidence calibration. Streaming, real-time verification updates across 7 LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Azure, Bedrock, OpenRouter.
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Details
RoleArchitect + build
StackNext 15, Supabase
BillingStripe
StatusBeta · onboarding
01
7
Verification paradigms
02
7
LLM providers
03
∥
Parallel execution
04
Stream
Real-time updates
Next.js 15TypeScriptSupabaseStripemathjs7 Providers
§ 02 / Experience

Where I've been.

2023 → now
Oct 2025 — Present
AI SWE Engineer
Epoch · Remote
Engineered Zerg and ZTC — an autonomous coding-agent platform and Claude-Code-style terminal with parallel tool dispatch, background sub-agents, worktree-isolated batch execution, provider routing, and live web-mirror observability. As a Forward Deployed Engineer for an aerospace customer, architected continual-validation and embedded evaluation harnesses scoring outputs against deterministic state, tool, artifact, browser, and visual oracles. Orchestrated multi-agent simulation infrastructure for enterprise decision scenarios.
Remote · Incoming FT Jul 2026
Jun 2023 — Sep 2025
Software Engineer Intern
MOBIVOLT LLC
Developed 10+ automated test systems for a $5M+ DOD-funded fuel cell program using C#/.NET — 250+ sensors, 5,000+ hours runtime, data logging time reduced 99%. Built a Python/PyQt hardware-in-the-loop simulator for Tardigrade fuel-cell systems (serial firmware bridge, 100ms sensor injection, 200ms polling, plant models for stack, battery, pressure, water, actuator, thermal). Ported PIC32MZ Puma/Tardigrade firmware into a Harmony V3 target — 50+ app/driver modules, 2,500+ lines of C tests.
Livermore, CA
Oct 2023 — Sep 2025
Founder / President
AI at UCR (AIR)
Established UCR's first official AI organization. Scaled 0 → 50+ active members in 6 months with 45% workshop attendance growth. Delivered 10+ technical workshops on AI/ML implementation and emerging tech. Produced reusable curriculum, GitHub learning materials, speaker programming, and onboarding infrastructure that helped technical and non-technical students contribute to applied AI projects.
Riverside, CA
2022 — Jun 2026
B.S. Computer Science
UC Riverside · Minor: Entrepreneurship & Strategy
GPA 3.66 · Dean's Honor List. Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, AI, Software Engineering, Software Construction, Database Management, Operating Systems, Data Analysis, Linear Algebra, Computer Architecture, Assembly, Logic Design.
Riverside, CA
§ 03 / Awards

Recognized work.

2 wins · selected
Sep 2024
I

University Program Award

AMD Pervasive AI Developer Contest · $2,500 · 8,200+ participants
Nov 2022
II

Sustainability Award

Cutie Hack 2022 · U.S. energy‑based carbon emissions visualization
§ 04 / Stack

Tools I reach for.

updated · jun 2026
AI / MLA.01
LLMsAI AgentsTool UseRAGMCPPrompt EngLLM EvaluationSWE-benchMulti-Agent SimLangChainLangGraphPyTorchHuggingFaceTensorFlowScikit‑learnVector Embeddings
LanguagesA.02
PythonTypeScriptJavaScriptC++CJavaC#GoRustSQLBash
BackendA.03
Node.jsExpressFastAPIDjangoFlaskRESTGraphQLWebSocketsServer-Sent EventsSocket.IO
FrontendA.04
ReactNext.jsTailwindshadcn/uiViteSSR
DatabasesA.05
PostgreSQLSupabaseRedisMongoDBPineconepgvector
Cloud / DevOpsA.06
DockerKubernetesk3dAWSGCPAzureVercelModalFly.ioGitHub ActionsCI/CDGit
§ 05 / Certifications

Verified credentials.

3 certifications · coursera
Cert · CourseraC.01
Supervised Machine Learning
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Cert · CourseraC.02
Advanced Learning Algorithms
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Cert · CourseraC.03
Unsupervised, Recommenders, RL
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§ 06 / Contact

Let's talk.

resp · within 24h

Say hello.

① Email michaelluochen1@gmail.com ↗ ② Phone (925) 365‑6778 ↗
③ LinkedIn /michael-luo-chen ↗ ④ GitHub @mchen04 ↗