Saw S. Lin (張智奇)

A fellow human being — just curious, committed, respectful.

Building products end to end, designing AI-powered systems, and researching LLM inference — capable on my own, and a natural collaborator.

Portrait of Saw S. Lin
About
  • Finishing an MSc in CSIE at National Taiwan University — researching LLM inference acceleration.
  • Independent builder — clients span institutions and businesses, including STPI @ NIAR, a science-and-technology policy research institute, and IFC Travels & Tours.
  • 6+ years across product and engineering. Angel-invested in SleekEV during its bridge round.
Selected Work

DominoTree

A training-free draft-tree method that speeds up LLM inference by up to 6.6×.

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ResearchAlgorithm

Seek

An AI recommendation engine that matches government research-grant applications to the scholars best qualified to evaluate them.

AlgorithmProductAPI DesignFrontend

TOP Grants

A ground-up redesign of the legacy grant-review system into one calm, one-stop app for Taiwan's top scholars — reviewer matching powered by Seek.

FrontendProductAPI Design

TEMatrix

An AI patent-and-paper analysis tool that generates technology function matrix that shows where a technology is crowded (red ocean) or wide open (blue ocean).

FrontendProductAPI Design
Experience
  1. 2025.09–NowSTPI @ NIARstpi.niar.gov.twProduct Consultant – Algorithm Design, Product Strategy & Design, API Design, Frontend Development
  2. 2025.07–08STPI @ NIARstpi.niar.gov.twInformation Systems Division Intern
  3. 2025.01–06KOBA AI × Digital Humankorvva.com/ai-vtuberAI Product Strategy · Part-time
  4. 2024.02–07Spacematter Appsspacematterapps.comCollaborator
  5. 2023.08–2024.02Codigo - The Mobile App Companycodigo.coIT Project Manager
  6. 2022.10–2023.02Arbyex (Self-funded project)Product Manager
  7. 2018.07–2022.05Ahtar Oo Co., Ltd.ahtaroo.comfrom Project Manager to Technical Product Manager
  8. 2018.03–05SKYBIT.ASIASoftware Development Intern
Previously

After years of fiddling with smartphone built-in timers—across both iOS and Android—and testing over five top-rated apps, I decided it was time to take control and create my own solution.

Visit

Representing Spacematter Apps, I pitched IFC — a client based in Yangon looking to grow their digital presence — with a product-strategy consultation of three tailored proposals and an MVP prototype integrated with a leading mobile-payment super-app in Myanmar. I also coordinated with Huawei's team in China to assess the technical feasibility of their platform for IFC's app launch.

Say hello

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