Hi, I’m Tyler.

I build Agents and backend systems.

I’m a CS student at UCLA. From trust & safety automations to multiplayer card games, I like solving challenging problems, building efficient backend systems, and automating repetitive tasks.

Tyler Xiao
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About

About Me

UCLA student studying Computer Science + building random stuff :)

Location
San Diego native · based in Los Angeles
Education
UCLA CS '27 student, Technical Breadth in ECE
Focus
AI agents, backend systems, trust & safety automation

Experience

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Recent roles across AI workflows, evaluations, and student leadership.

May 2025Sep 2025/AI Agents, Trust & Safety

Member of Technical Staff · SafetyKit

First intern owning agentic AI workflows for trust & safety review pipelines, helping the team ship automation that humans actually trusted.

May 2025Present/Leadership, Automation

Induction & Membership Chair · Upsilon Pi Epsilon @ UCLA

Scaled onboarding for the honor society and built Discord automation to keep events organized for a fast-growing membership base.

Nov 2024May 2025/AI Systems, Evaluation

Technical Advisor Intern · Scale AI

Trained generative AI systems on complex coding and reasoning tasks, designing eval loops that kept quality high while throughput scaled.

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Projects

Selected builds

List of projects I'm excited about.

Product EngineerRealtime / Web Apps

Multiplayer Card Games

Full-stack platform for playing Fish and Viet Cong online with synchronized state, matchmaking, and polished animations.

TypeScriptNext.jsVercel
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CreatorBots / Finance

StonksGame

Discord bot that runs live stock-trading simulations complete with leaderboards, analytics, and Alpha Vantage powered data feeds.

PythonDiscord.pyAlpha Vantage API
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ML EngineerML / Climate / Twilio API

Wildfire Detection

Telemetry pipeline that ingests air-quality data and flags wildfire risk via TensorFlow models and alerting hooks.

TypeScriptTensorFlowNode.js
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AI EngineerAI Agents / Automation

DocuPilot

Google Drive agent that executes document workflows from natural language chat, handling routing, summarization, and task updates.

FastAPILangChainGemini APIReact
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Full Stack EngineerAI / Education

Kinetic

Automated lecture builder that uses instructor and TA agents to deliver multi-modal lessons with live collaboration tools.

Next.jsFastifyLiveKitAnthropic Claude API
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iOS DeveloperMobile / Productivity

Grow & Give

SwiftUI productivity app that helps students set goals and stay accountable through habit tracking and gentle reminders.

SwiftSwiftUI
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Writing

Changelog entries

Personal/technical blog posts. Coming soon!

Contact

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tylerxiao@ucla.edu

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