Neil's Think Lab
I am Ze-Ting Lu. I do SWE, constantly builds, and ships VERY fast. I'm also interested in the Sinitic languages and edtech practices.
Learning all I can learn...
- ECE + CS @ Duke taking algorithm, ML, and hardware courses.
- I learn code by building. It's been ten years since I started.
- I am confident about learning anything. Ask me if I can build <x>, and I'll likely say yes.
- All sorts of web apps with different tech stacks.
- AI agents for security compliance.
- LLM integrations into a test automation system.
- Realtime brainwave streaming hardware and software.
- (Much more! See below!)
- Early-career social platform that gained 1000+ users and sourced 20k+ USD of funding, all in a few months
- Volunteer platform that recruited 100+ tutors and enabled 3000+ tutoring hours for children in need.
- Education platform that grew to millions of views and got featured on mainstream magazines in Taiwan.
Highlighted Work...
Too many projects, not sure how to show them to you...
Highlights
Featured ones, with short descriptions as introduction!
Full List
All of them, sorted by category into an app drawer.
In Active Development
These are my current project. Way too busy vibe-coding every day.
200+ in waitlist in 3 weeks
JobReview
09/2024 - Present
Taiwanese people don't use Glassdoor, and there's no good alternative. I found nowhere to share and view job reviews. I tried hard on marketing and idea validation. In the first few weeks:
- Posts about this platform got 200k+ views on Threads, and 100+ comments saying they need this.
- Gained 200+ in waitlist, and compiled 100+ company reviews, with consistent growth since then.
- Compiled and indexed 580k+ company entries in Taiwan.
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Actively Maintained
These are still functioning, and people still use it, but I don't regularly add new features to them anymore; I still fix bugs though.
EdTech Startup, 20k+ users
Zetria
09/2018 - 01/2024
An educational non-profit dedicated to making online resources more accessible.
- We enable students to search 20+ educational platforms in a unified interface.
- We launched an online-resource initiative that produced 150+ qualitied contents chapters.
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Finance Forum, 10k+ members
Alumi
07/2023 - 06/2024
A discussion and social platform for one of Taiwan's largest finance communities. The platform handled 6k+ registrations within 24 hours of launch with 0 downtime. Users can post questions, share insights, and share files with each other. It is built on Cloudflare's infrastructure and uses identity verification and 2FA with SMS and LINE messages.
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Somewhere Out There
I founded, cofounded, or built these, but either I have passed them onto others' hands, or they have been completed fully.
AI, RAG, Image Recognition
Eapplico
12/2023 - 07/2024
"Who's that guy with blue hair working in edu-tech I met in NYC? He had a black business card."
- Co-led a team of 7, discussed with VC’s and mentors.
- Set up Go API servers, Python ML servers, MongoDB, and Next JS & iOS clients.
- Built fuzzy-search algorithms with OpenAI tokenizer and vector databases, enabling search through vague description of contact traits.
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EdTech, 3000+ hrs served
Infinitas
06/2021 - 01/2023
A volunteer organization with a tailored online LMS, serving underserved communities. We achieved the following:
- Built an online LMS to match students and volunteers, keep student profiles, and deliver pre-class notifications.
- Enabled 3000+ hours of tutoring since launching.
- Saw more than 120 volunteers working in the same batch to help underserved students over the pandemic.
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Shunxing
05/2022 - 08/2022
A community project-showcase landing page with an interactive game and a content management portal. The static page itself is designed by Sean Liao, and I added database integration and a content management portal to it. This is a part of my friend group's community project over the pandemic.
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大道之行也，天下為公，選賢與能，講信修睦，故人不獨親其親，不獨子其子，使老有所終，壯有所用，幼有所長，鰥寡孤獨廢疾者，皆有所養；男有分，女有歸，貨惡其棄於地也不必藏於己，力惡其不出於身也不必為己，是故謀閉而不興，盜竊亂賊而不作，故外戶而不閉，是謂大同。