Alston Hui

Full-Stack · Applied AI · Serverless Edge · Linux Infra · Quant Finance

University of Toronto · HBSc · Statistics · Economics · Computer Science · QS Top 30 Global

Profile

Full-stack developer and AI systems engineer with a quantitative background (Statistics, Economics, CS — University of Toronto). Specialises in LLM integration, serverless edge architecture, and production AI pipelines. Combines automotive-manufacturing and quantitative-finance domain knowledge with hands-on infrastructure engineering to build systems that operate at the intersection of intelligence and commerce. Experienced in Linux server administration, encrypted network infrastructure (Shadowsocks, VLESS/Reality, 3X-UI), and cloud platforms (GCP, AWS). Proven ability to own complete systems from architecture design through deployment and live operation.

Projects

market_intel

live

Real-time trading-intelligence platform on Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare WorkersD1KVVue 3TypeScriptVPS price-stream

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Front-end

live

Marketing site + user portal for the Algoter trading product

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwindCloudflare Pages

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Trading Expert Advisors (EAs)

wip

MT5 expert advisor porting a XAU/USD scalp signal line to MQL5

MQL5MT5ONNX (planned)

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VPS

live

Self-hosted proxy & secure-network infrastructure on VPS

ShadowsocksVLESS/XTLS-RealityVMess3X-UIiptablesufwfail2banBBRLet's Encrypt

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Ecosystem

How the projects feed one another — one product chain, not islands.

Markets / news / prices──▶market_intel — realtime intelrealtime ingestion

market_intel — realtime intel──▶Telegram & ops consolesignals & briefings

market_intel — realtime intel──▶Front-end — brand & portalsignal & brand surface

market_intel — realtime intel──▷Offline ML warehouseincremental DB export

market_intel — realtime intel──▶Trading EAs (MT5)frozen read-only snapshot

Offline ML warehouse──▷Trading EAs (MT5).onnx model, local inference🔒 offline training / in-terminal inference — no cloud on the hot path

Work Experience

Algoter

Permanent · 8 mos

Business Manager

Mar 2026 – Present · 4 mos

Institutional liaison
AI infrastructure design & management

Operations Manager — Financial Technology

Nov 2025 – Mar 2026 · 5 mos

Data-driven market analysis
Regulatory compliance operations

FinTech & Finance

carnex.ca

Permanent

Operations Manager — Tesla Dealership

Dec 2024 – Jun 2025 · 7 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Liaison with Service Ontario (registration & safety) and OMVIC (provincial regulator) — 0 compliance incidents.
Ran the upstream / downstream auto network: auctions (OPENLANE), CARFAX, bank auto-finance (TD / Scotiabank / RBC), OEM & after-market partners.

Operations & Sales Management

Outlier

Internship

AI Prompt Engineer

Oct 2024 – Jun 2025 · 9 mos

Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

Designed and iterated evaluation-methodology documentation: edge-case identification, adversarial prompting patterns, and LLM scoring rubrics.

AI & Computer Science

condo at home

Self-employed

Ragdoll Cats Breeder

Feb 2021 – Feb 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada · On-site

Ran the full breeding process independently — pair selection, care, and placing kittens in ideal homes.

Empathy & Organization

Technical Skills

AI / LLM

Prompt engineering, few-shot learning, Workers AI, LLM evaluation, Anthropic Claude API

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloudflare Workers / KV / D1 / Pages, GCP, AWS, Linux (Ubuntu/Debian), SSH, systemd

Languages

JavaScript (Node.js), Python, R, SQL, Bash, SAS

APIs & Integrations

Facebook Graph API, Messenger Webhook, REST, Cloudflare Workers AI, Wrangler CLI

Analytics

Power BI, Tableau, Streamlit, regression modelling, CRM analytics

Spoken Languages

English (professional working proficiency), Mandarin (native)