Timothy Lum

Timothy Lum

Software engineer who ships production AI-powered SaaS end to end: multi-tenant platforms on Next.js, TypeScript, and Postgres, plus automation systems that connect LLMs to CRM, marketing, and internal workflows.

tclum.github.io

timothyclum@gmail.com

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Honolulu, Hawaii US

Skills

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, C/C++

Frameworks: Next.js 15 (App Router), React, Node.js, Tauri v2

Data: PostgreSQL, Supabase, Drizzle ORM, pgvector, MongoDB, SQLite

AI & Automation: LLM API integration (Claude, OpenAI), AI-assisted development workflow (Claude Code, Codex), RAG (embeddings, pgvector, vector search), agent and tool-use pipelines, LLM eval and smoke-test harnesses, LiveKit realtime voice agents, n8n, webhook and event-driven pipelines

Infrastructure: Vercel, Railway, Turborepo/pnpm monorepos, GitHub Actions, Vitest

Practices: Multi-tenant architecture, row-level security, REST APIs, schema migration discipline, CI smoke testing

Experience

AI Engineer (Contract), ProService Hawaii

www.proservice.com/

AI systems for pricing review at Hawaii's largest HR/PEO provider.

  • Built a deterministic and LLM-enhanced pricing-review system that runs a multi-domain analysis spanning profitability, billing integrity, labor burden, and risk exposure across a client book of thousands of businesses.
  • Modeled the annualized dollar impact of extending the system book-wide, stating sampling method and capture assumptions explicitly so the estimate could be challenged on its terms.
  • Partner with non-technical pricing staff to convert undocumented business rules into enforced logic in the pricing database.

2026 - Present

Founder and Lead Engineer, DDO Tech Solutions

forpono.com

Software company delivering multi-tenant web platforms for small-business clients.

  • Founded and operating the company, owning architecture, implementation, deployment, and client relationships.

2026 - Present

Director, Maker Space & AI Innovation Program, Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship, UH Manoa

pace.shidler.hawaii.edu

Ran daily operations of a university prototyping facility supporting student and faculty ventures.

  • Designed and taught an AI engineering curriculum for a cohort of non-technical students.
  • Trained and supported users across 3D printing, laser cutting, embroidery, sublimation, and heat press, and advised student entrepreneurs on technical feasibility and product development.
  • Served as Associate, Maker Program from Jul 2024 before taking the director role in Apr 2025.

2024 - 2026

Software and Product Development, Bayze / AinaQuest (Leap Start Program)

ainaquest.com

Mobile and web development for consumer-facing products.

  • Developed mobile and web application features on the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js) for consumer-facing products.
  • Integrated third-party and internal APIs, and supported launch planning, technical documentation, and roadmap execution.
  • Managed digitization of a physical card game through manufacturing and playtesting.

2024 - 2026

Computer Engineer Intern, Adapt Forward

www.adaptforward.com/

Cyber Security internship with Adapt Forward for the NIWC.

  • Learning about high level cyber security policies to ensure proper data security
  • Research paper and poster based on Polymorphic Malware and AI in Cyber Security

2023 - 2023

Co-Founder, Audiophile Entertainment

Event production company.

  • Co-founded and operated the company, owning planning, operations, promotion, and vendor management for large-scale events over five years.

2015 - 2020

Selected Projects

Forpono, Multi-tenant SaaS platform (DDO Tech Solutions)

forpono.com

  • Architected and shipped a multi-tenant platform serving customer sites across *.forpono.com plus a separate admin application, built as a Turborepo/pnpm monorepo on Next.js 15 App Router, Supabase/Postgres, and Vercel.
  • Implemented host-based tenant resolution in middleware, per-tenant sitemap generation, and a single-source indexing predicate governing both robots metadata and sitemap inclusion.
  • Built a manifest-driven smoke suite run on every merge that asserts SEO and indexing invariants in both directions and fails on unreachable targets rather than skipping them.

workflow-intel, AI workflow intelligence system

  • Built a system that continuously gathers and analyzes how AI tools and workflows are being adopted, turning scattered public signal into a searchable, current picture of the landscape.
  • Delivered it as a production dashboard that answers questions by meaning rather than keyword, so the useful result surfaces even when the wording differs.

PACE Bot, Realtime voice and text AI avatar for a university entrepreneurship center

  • Built a conversational agent with realtime voice via LiveKit, deployed as separate front-end and agent services on Railway.

flyer-bot, Marketing automation pipeline

  • Built an automated pipeline that generates and distributes marketing collateral, integrating LLM generation with scheduled and event-driven triggers.

EL3vate, Resource platform for a University of Hawaii faculty development program

el3vate.forpono.com

  • Built and shipped a digital home giving participating faculty a single place to find the materials relevant to their own discipline.
  • Designed it so program staff can update content live during a session and publish in one step, with deploy gates that prove themselves against deliberately broken fixtures on every run and refuse to publish past a failure.

Education

University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI

B.S., Computer Science, Minor in Business (expected Aug 2026)

2024 - 2026

Kapi'olani Community College, Honolulu, HI

A.S., Information and Communication Technology

2020 - 2023

Leadership & Activities

Chair, Student Media Board, University of Hawaii at Manoa

Governance and strategic oversight for student-run media organizations including Ka Leo, Hawaii Review, KTUH, Manoa Now, and UH Productions.

  • Led budgets, policy, and long-range planning across the board's organizations.
  • Drove a $2 million proposal to completion, closing a process that had been open for 15 years.

2024 - 2026

Photographer, Kapi'olani Community College

kapiolanicc.smugmug.com/Commencement/2023-Fall-Commencement/Photos-by-Tim-Lum

Volunteer photographer

  • Catch moments through photographs
  • Assist staff with facilitating students

2023 - 2023

Interests

Photography , Videography , Fitness , Cooking