Markus Mak

Product manager tinkering with AI, growth and design

San Francisco, PST

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About

Product manager with experience in AI and growth. Currently working at Bytedance AI Labs as a strategy product manager, leading reasoning and multimodal post-training data and strategy. Familiar with full-stack web development and machine learning stack.

Work Experience

Bytedance

2024 - Now

Strategy Product Manager

Leading reasoning and multimodal post-training data and strategy.

How to train SOTA LLM foundation models and how to lead teams.

Bytedance

2023 - Now

Growth Product Manager

Responsible for top funnel growth. Designed B2B content strategy to grow content UV and qualified leads.

Learnt how to do SEO well and the importance of distribution.

Bain & Company

2022 - 2022

Associate Consultant Intern

Built gigantic models on asset liquidation as a cost-saving initiative and presented to client.

Developed Excel and story telling skills.

Deep Wisdom

2020 - 2021

Machine Learning Product Manager

Created benchmark pipeline for our Auto-ML algorithm and incorporated performance benchmark into the product. Implemented ensemble learning to improve algorithm performance.

Learnt how to write PRDs and production-ready Python code.

Clipp

2019 - 2020

Co-Founder & Product

Built a marketplace app from zero to one. Led product and design.

Became customer obsessed and learnt how to build from scratch.

Education

The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

2018 - 2023
Bachelor of Science in Economics

Skills

JavaScript
React
Node.js
HTML/CSS
Python
PyTorch
Flask

Projects

Stealth

Solo building. Currently 6-fig ARR. Brewing...

LLM

Security Copilot

Multimodal RAG (video) to query security footages. Hackathon 3rd.

Python
LLM
RAG
Hackathon

AI-Powered Terminal Copilot

A terminal that executes based on natural language input.

Python
LLM
Langchain

Cross Pollination

Resarch tool that synthesizes research papers from the past 20 years and identifies potential research gap. Hackathon 4th.

Hackathon
LLM
RAG

Simple Transformer

Implemented a transformer for learning by referencing the original transformer paper. Trained with A100 GPUs.

LLM
PyTorch

ReCaptcha

A computer vision system using LLM to detect and categorise ReCaptcha images.

Hackathon
Python
LLM
CV

Crypto Arbitrage

Designed a multi-hop arbitrage algorithm on Ethereum.

Blockchain
Solidity

Meal Swipe Marketplace

Full stack web app for UPenn college dining swipes.

React
Node.js
Flask
MongoDB

Jupinpin

Full stack WeChat application for finding games around you.

React
Flask
MongoDB