# Oliver C.

> Product Consultant | Product Engineer (AI) | UWaterloo CS

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/oliverc

0→1 product builder: clarify the problem, prototype fast, deliver buildable scope with clean execution.    
Agentic AI + strong product taste: fast iteration, reliable systems, polished UX.
Portfolio/blog: olicheng.com

## Work Experience
### Product Engineer (AI) @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2024 – Present
• Built and shipped applied-AI product prototypes using LLMs + coding agents, owning the full loop (product → UX → engineering → iteration) 
• Designed agentic development environments with guardrails: tool calling, prompt/versioning, structured outputs, eval harnesses, and reliability checks (so “vibe coding” still ships safely).
• Implemented end-to-end foundations for AI products: RAG/knowledge workflows, model routing, observability/telemetry, cost controls, and deployment—then iterated based on user feedback and real usage.
• Note: Work under NDA; public-facing work and demos at olicheng.com.

### Product Consultant @ OC Product Consulting
Jan 2016 – Present
• Bridge business, UX, and engineering to move from idea → prototype → production-grade scope.
• Define product structure: flows, information architecture, interaction patterns, and requirements that engineers can build confidently.
• Work hands-on with teams to implement web/mobile prototypes and ensure quality via component specs, edge cases, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Use lean startup principles to uncover what matters, then drive prioritization, iteration, and product narrative.

### Product Manager @ Unyte Health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | United States and Canada
• 0→1 productization: Took a proven, non-digital legacy product offering and turned it into a SaaS product, owning product definition and execution from concept → MVP → iteration.
• Clinician-led discovery + rapid prototyping (UX team of one): Ran direct interviews with medical providers and their clients, built/iterated prototypes fast, and drove beta testing loops to validate workflows and usability before/after launch.
• Multi-platform shipping + GTM bridge: Drove delivery across iOS, Android, and web while working under the CTO; partnered with business/marketing/engineering on pricing & packaging to align GTM with what the product could reliably deliver.

### Product Designer @ Aterica Digital Health
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Waterloo, ON
• Owned UX for patient/provider workflows from discovery through handoff and iteration.
• Built wireframes and prototypes; synthesized usability findings into concrete product changes.
• Partnered with engineering to ship iterations under real constraints (edge cases, accessibility).

### Software Engineering Intern (UX/UI) @ SmartHalo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Montreal, QC
• Prototyped and implemented mobile UX concepts across iOS/Android in React Native.
• Bridged design and engineering teams to ship quickly and iterate from user feedback.
• Applied usability testing/user interviews to improve real product flows.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Esper
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Implemented product improvements focused on onboarding and early user experience.
• Built production backend features in OCaml (functional programming language) with attention to correctness and maintainability.
• Collaborated with the team to deliver shipped changes safely in a production environment for a VC-backed startup.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Ribose
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Hong Kong
• Designed and built full-stack features for a business certification data project (Ruby + Rails).
• Developed Ruby tooling to collect and structure data using web crawling / web scraping scripts and optical character recognition for customized mass data extraction for downstream usage in an enterprise product.

### Technical Analyst Intern @ IBM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Ottawa, ON
• Delivered customized business intelligence software solutions and supported Fortune 500 enterprise clients with complex vendor integrations.
• Diagnosed issues across custom architecture, databases, and networking contexts; maintained 100% satisfaction rating.

### Information Technology Intern @ eHealth Ontario
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Toronto, ON
• Deployed and supported software systems for digital healthcare records.
• Received an Employee Excellence Award for high-quality custom system deployments.


## Education
### Bachelor's in Computer Science • Cognitive Science Minor • Business Option (Co-op)
University of Waterloo

### Information Technology and Digital Media
Ursula Franklin Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/oli-cheng
- Portfolio: https://olicheng.com/projects/
- Portfolio: https://olicheng.com/blog/
- Portfolio: https://olicheng.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-31