About
Player-coach product builder, working at the intersection of frontier AI and human-centred design.
I'm Vivid. I build AI systems that are useful enough to ship and careful enough to defend. Based in Sydney, working across product strategy, research prototyping, and engineering.
Background spans HCI and design, AI product management (Duke), an MBA Thesis on AI-driven Applications for Experience Design (Steinbeis Hochschule, Berlin), and have lived in 12 countries across 4 continents. My startup founder journey includes two successful exits in the video game space (Shanghai and Berlin) where I learned how to find PMF and ship products with small teams under pressure.
What I work on
- Agentic AI systems: multi-agent architectures with explicit safety envelopes, LLM orchestration, evaluation harnesses
- MCP servers: production and prototype, both consumer-facing and inside the enterprise (Breville's DAM Butler is the most public example)
- Privacy-first AI infrastructure: provenance-aware retrieval, longitudinal reasoning scaffolds, human-in-the-loop review gates
- Human-AI interaction: designing experiences where AI augments decision-making instead of obscuring it
Why I care about safety
Most AI demos look good on happy-path prompts and fall apart when you ask the hard questions: provenance, override, longitudinal change, failure modes. My bet is that the products that matter five years from now are the ones whose builders took those questions seriously at the prototype stage, not after the first incident.
That's what threads my work together: multimodal memory with chain-of-custody, multi-agent trading with execution guardrails, local agents with strict tool boundaries. The use cases differ. The discipline doesn't.
Currently building
- AI-native gameplay with agentic workflows and isolated sub-agents for parallel task execution
- Hybrid model routing across local models (LM Studio) and OpenRouter-hosted models, including Qwen 3.x variants
- AI evaluation frameworks aimed at product decisions, not benchmark gaming
Accolades
- Red Dot Award 2022, Best of the Best: Breville Barista Express Impress BES876
- SCA Award 2022: Breville Barista Express Impress BES876
- Good Design Award 2022: Breville Joule Oven Air Pro
- Red Dot Award 2020: Breville Polyscience HydroPro SousVide
- Red Dot Award 2020: Breville Nespresso Creatista Pro
- IDSA 2019, Bronze: Breville Smart Oven AirFry
- NASA SpaceApps 2017, 1st Place Australia / Top 25 Global
- NASA SpaceApps 2016, 1st Place Australia / Top 5 Global
- Chatfuel Chatbot 2017, Top 10 Global Finalist: Stake Chatbot
Education
- AI Product Management, Duke University (Pratt School of Engineering)
- MBA, Steinbeis Hochschule Berlin (Thesis: AI-Driven Application for Experience Design)
Languages
English · French · Mandarin