Jerard Li

Crev Pty Ltd

Owner-Operator & Systems Lead · Jan 2019 – Jan 2026

• Managed full P&L accountability for a high-volume $1M/year hospitality business, directing financial resource allocation, cost control, and unit economics under real operating constraints.
• Architected internal POS, inventory management, and operational workflows; introduced human-in-the-loop AI pipelines leveraging Anthropic Claude API for automated shift scheduling and demand forecasting, streamlining administrative efficiency by 30%.
• Built and retained a stable core team over 5-7 years through structured onboarding, process leadership, and optimised team workflows, maintaining high service availability and customer throughput through major economic disruptions.
• Ensured strict compliance with workplace safety, food standards, data security, and privacy policy frameworks.

Great Southern Hotel

Guest Services Agent Lead · Jan 2013 – Jan 2019

• Led shift operations and customer support, managing guest data, payments, and system requests in a fast-paced environment with strict time sensitivity.
• Coordinated cross-functionally with internal teams to maintain data accuracy across room statuses, reservations, and operational databases.

UNE Data Science & Statistics Club

Executive Secretary · Jan 2024 – Jan 2026

• Coordinated technical community operations, managing club administration, communication channels, and technical documentation across committee work.

One Can Grow Inc.

Human Resources Lead · Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

• Supported recruitment and people processes in a community organisation, building early experience in structured communication and team support.

PROJECT EXPERIENCE

Jan 2026 – Jan 2026

• Personal Project | Next.js 16 (App Router), TypeScript, Tailwind v4, LLM API, Docker, AWS Terraform | Link: lagombyli.dev
• Built a live "Ask My CV" agent that answers interview questions as me, in first person with STAR structure
• Engineered a grounded-answer pipeline: PDF/DOCX extraction, heuristic CV parsing, and deterministic citation verification, so every claim carries a verbatim quote and uncovered topics get an honest refusal, never a hallucination.
• Added production admin: GitHub OAuth allowlist, CV upload, content CRUD, usage dashboard, and rate limiting, with the deterministic core covered by 49 unit tests.
• Shipped it as infrastructure-as-code with Docker, Terraform, and TLS, deployed to a custom domain with a bespoke design system

NSW SES Moree Flood Impact Visualisation Platform

6-person cross-functional team | Industry Client | PMBOK Agile · Jan 2026 – Jan 2026

• Led client stakeholder engagement and requirements gathering for an industry-facing disaster preparedness platform, establishing trusted relationships with the client.
• Translated operational needs into technical scope, bridging non-technical client expectations with backend data processing and mapping workstreams (MapLibre GL JS).
• Built backend data processing and geospatial visualisation components collaboratively, ensuring seamless integration across workstreams.
• Golang Secure Application Protocol & Client-Server System 2026
• Individual Project | Link: github.com/BlueDoraemon/Golang-Wordle-Secure-Application-Protocol-
• Engineered a TLS-secured client-server application in Go featuring a custom application protocol and terminal interface (Bubble Tea/Lipgloss).
• Implemented robust networking patterns, automated unit tests, and secure data transmission practices adhering to strict security fundamentals.

Video Summarisation Agent (Full Stack AI Backend)

Individual Project (Solo Software Engineer) · Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

• Architected and engineered an AI-powered video summarisation backend utilising Python, FastAPI, and Pydantic.
• Designed typed API interfaces with strict schema validation and error-handling, emphasising reliable product integration over unconstrained raw model outputs.

Big Data ML Activity Classification Pipeline

Individual Academic Project · Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

• Designed a big-data processing pipeline in Apache Spark and PySpark using the HAR70+ dataset to classify physical activity metrics in older adults.
• Executed feature extraction, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and automated model evaluation, reaching a 0.928 Random Forest F1 score.

Multi-Team Game Server Integration

Jan 2025 – Jan 2025

• 4-person core team within a 100-person monorepo | Link: youtube.com/watch?v=RMAjotpURAY
• Contributed Java and Scala backend updates within a 100-person shared monorepo, collaborating across sub-teams to maintain service interoperability.
• Resolved complex cross-service debugging issues and shared audio dependencies, ensuring system stability across multi-team releases.

NI Autonomous Robotics Competition

Team Lead | National Finalist | Link: youtube.com/watch?v=6W7ojTeBesg · Jan 2013 – Jan 2013

• Managed a $6,500 budget and led a student engineering team to the National Finals, combining technical prototyping (NI LabVIEW, SolidWorks) with task allocation and delivery planning in single board RIO.
• Microsoft Imagine Cup - Evacuation Simulator (Unity / C#) 2012

Global Hackathon / Competition

Round 4 Qualifier

• Teamed with two external engineers under competition constraints to architect a 3D disaster evacuation simulator in Unity and C#, qualifying for Round 4.
• Integrated the Microsoft Kinect SDK skeleton tracking (stick-form body joint model) to process real-time user gestures for interactive simulation control.

Bachelor of Computer Science (Software Development) Expected Early

Jan 2027 – Jan 2027

• University of New England | 90.6% Academic Average | 16 High Distinctions and 1 Distinction across 17 units
• Relevant Coursework: Computational Thinking (98), Software Development Studio 2 (96), Data Science Studio 1 (94), Machine Learning with Big Data (94), Introduction to Programming (93), Functional and Reactive Programming (93).

Sydney Medical School Summer Research Scholarship

University of Sydney | Supervised Research under Dr Elizabeth Clarke · Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

• Contributed to exploratory spinal cord injury research investigating thoracic stabilisation device concepts for experimental studies of spinal nerve healing and regeneration.
• Worked with a high degree of independence to machine and assemble a testing rig for evaluating the device's biomechanical properties.
• Built early experience in self-directed technical research, fabrication, documentation, and evidence-based problem-solving within a medical research setting.

Certificate IV in Human Resources Management

NSI TAFE · Jan 2012 – Jan 2012