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wai-lau/README.md

Hi, I'm Wai 👋

Senior Software Engineer — Infrastructure & Platform · Montréal, QC

I work on distributed systems, infrastructure deployment, and high-throughput financial services.

Experience

Coinbase — Software Engineer · 2022–2026

  • Built a high-throughput financial ledger on Aeron.
  • Led a Cadence → Temporal migration across services.
  • Cut AWS spend $500K/yr via storage optimization.
  • Unified dual CI/CD pipeline architectures.

Shopify — Production Engineer · 2019–2022

  • Multi-region search failover over ~150TB of indexed data.
  • Drove p99 latency from 400ms → 50ms for international users.
  • macOS/iOS build infrastructure.

Nuance Communications — Software Developer · 1 yr

  • Internal tooling and automation for speech/NLP teams.

Skills

Go Ruby Python Java JavaScript · AWS GCP Kubernetes Docker Terraform · Kafka Elasticsearch PostgreSQL · gRPC Buf Temporal · Datadog · Claude Code MCP

Living Projects wai-lau.net

  • emet — A personally-owned knowledge graph with a hard privacy wall.
  • exec-fn — Self-hosted planning assistant. FastAPI + Claude pipeline: kanban, day-planner timeline, nudge loop.
  • hosaka — Local near-real-time TTS: Kokoro presets + Chatterbox voice cloning + Parler baking, on an RTX 5070 Ti.
  • nightfall — Browser cyberpunk RPG. TypeScript + React + Webpack.

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  1. exec-fn exec-fn Public

    ADHD planning assistant — FastAPI + Claude pipeline: kanban, day-planner timeline, ADHD nudge loop, GLaDOS-voiced. Self-hosted.

    HTML

  2. hosaka hosaka Public

    Local near-real-time TTS: Kokoro presets + Chatterbox cloning + Parler voice-baking, on a Blackwell RTX 5070 Ti

    HTML

  3. nightfall nightfall Public

    Browser cyberpunk RPG — hack corps, fight databattles, unravel the net. TypeScript + React + Webpack.

    HTML

  4. configs configs Public

    My vim/tmux/zsh configs.

    Vim Script