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ztanruan/README.md

Hello World, I'm Zhen (Jin) Tan Ruan

Senior GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer @ Google · Based in NYC 🗽

Architecting and shipping production-grade Generative AI systems and
agentic workflows - embedded with enterprise teams, from prototype to scale.


I'm Jin, a Senior Lead Forward Deployed Engineer on Google's Generative AI team. Based in New York, I specialize in the architecture, deployment, and operation of production-grade Generative AI systems - working at the frontier of agentic workflows, multi-agent orchestration, foundation model fine-tuning, and enterprise-scale ML systems.

As an FDE, I embed directly with customer engineering teams to design, code, and ship bespoke GenAI applications that drive measurable business impact - building the connective tissue between Google's AI products and real-world infrastructure, data, and security perimeters. My focus is taking ambitious ideas from rapid prototype to hardened, observable, production-grade reality.

Before Google, I was a Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer at TwelveLabs, a frontier video-understanding lab building state-of-the-art Vision-Language Models (VLMs). There I worked hands-on with customers to deploy multimodal video AI - semantic search, understanding, and retrieval - into production at scale.

Earlier, I was a Senior GenAI Engineer at Amazon Web Services within the Global Prototyping team, where I led the design of AI-driven applications for complex enterprise challenges. And as a Research Scientist at the Air Force Research Lab, I worked at the intersection of applied research and mission-critical systems - bridging cutting-edge R&D with scalable, real-world execution.

🛠️ Things I code with

Python LangChain PyTorch TensorFlow Hugging Face Google Cloud Platform Vertex AI AWS Amazon Bedrock Docker Kubernetes TypeScript React FastAPI LangGraph OpenAI Anthropic Gemini TwelveLabs MCP LlamaIndex Ollama JAX Ray Weights & Biases Pinecone Weaviate pandas NumPy Go PostgreSQL Redis Terraform github actions MongoDB Nodejs git GraphQL

⚡ At a glance

  • 🔭 Senior GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer @ Google - building and shipping production Generative AI applications, agentic systems, and multi-agent workflows
  • 🎥 Previously Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer @ TwelveLabs - deploying frontier Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for video understanding
  • 🏢 Formerly Senior GenAI Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (Global Prototyping)
  • 🇺🇸 Former Research Scientist @ Air Force Research Lab
  • 📄 Published & presented at ICML 2025
  • 🌱 10x AWS Machine Learning Certified
  • 📇 Speak three languages - Spanish, Chinese, and English
  • 💻 Personal Website
  • 📝 Resume

📚 Research & Publications

Mood Swings: Three Neuromodulatory Scalars Drive Impulse–Caution Shifts in Deep Actor–Critic Agents - ICML 2025

This work introduces a novel framework for dynamic emotional states in multi-agent systems, where deep reinforcement learning agents experience and adapt to "mood swings" driven by environmental stimuli and inter-agent interactions. Modeled through three neuromodulatory scalars, these states shift agents along an impulse–caution spectrum - demonstrating how emotional volatility can sharpen decision-making and improve collaborative outcomes in complex multi-agent scenarios.

🤝 Where to find me

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  1. gemma4-edge-benchmark gemma4-edge-benchmark Public

    Benchmarking Gemma 4 on Jetson Thor with vLLM across text, image, structured output, and edge-control workloads.

    Python 1 1

  2. awslabs/simple-database-archival-solution awslabs/simple-database-archival-solution Public

    Simple Database Archival Solution (SDAS) is an open source solution which you can deploy in your AWS account to archive data to AWS. SDAS provides organizations with an efficient, easy and cost-eff…

    TypeScript 4 2

  3. aws-samples/pace-genai-demos aws-samples/pace-genai-demos Public

    This repository features three demos that can be effortlessly integrated into your AWS environment. They serve as a practical guide to leveraging AWS services for crafting a sophisticated Large Lan…

    TypeScript 45 15

  4. hebula-labs/Prompt2Box hebula-labs/Prompt2Box Public

    Object detection without a model - labeled bounding boxes from any image using Google's Gemini. Python library + CLI, no training or GPU.

    Python 1