Hey, I'm Bowen.
AI engineer @ Perplexity.
Building with LLMs and AI since 2020. Worked on search ml at Yext, gen ai products for Fiber AI, and agentic systems for Hebbia. Previous side quests include teaching solidity for Refraction Labs / bootstrapping my own ai startup.
Graduated from Cornell in 2017 with a finance degree and worked in management consulting for a few years. Couldn't find a spark of joy on the business side, so I taught myself how to code and never looked back. If you're non-technical and want to break into SWE, drop me a note on LinkedIn (I check it every day for the games).
Some work projects
- Model Council - multi-model research
- Multi Agent Systems - bespoke orchestrator-subagent architecture
- Deep Research - built on the multi agent framework ^
- Information Retrieval - moving beyond traditional RAG
- Financial Modeling Agents - AI-powered financial modeling
Some personal projects
- Empathybench - Do LLMs have emotional intelligence?
- Gamblebench - Can LLMs play blackjack?
- Ride the Bus - The best drinking game
- CardDrop - Hinge profiles without Hinge
- DateDash - How are you doing on Hinge?
Some hobbies
- Tekken back to Sen pls
- Zain is the goat over Mang0 and Armada
- A3s is a better 4bet than A5s
- Moonlander overrated Dygma Defy underrated
- Getting punched in the head isn't that bad if you're used to it