ABOUT

I make things people use — and I still get the same thrill from a well-crafted product I did a decade ago.

I've spent 10+ years designing and shipping products across social, creator economy, and AI — from JD.com to four startups built from zero. Now I design and code AI products end-to-end, solo.

I care about the details most people don't notice. I believe the best AI feels invisible. And I ship fast, because that's where you learn.

Rainbow Wu

CAREER TIMELINE

  1. 2025 — Present
    Independent AI Builder
    SOLO

    Designing, building, and shipping AI products end-to-end. GetValuence (AI creator marketplace, React+Go, 7-platform integration) and Viostyle (5-model AI stylist pipeline) — both live in production.

  2. 2024 — Present
    Co-Founder, Product Lead
    AEQUIA TECHNOLOGY / FIVE DEGREES

    AI-native social platform with personal AI Buddies for agent-to-agent matching. Product design for AI Buddy UX and multi-turn agent negotiation workflows. All-AI-native team powered by Claude Code and Cursor.

  3. 2020 — 2024
    Co-Founder, Product Lead
    SUPERSYMMETRY / PROJECT Z

    Gen Z social platform (~$10M funding). Scaled from 0 to 800K MAU / 180K DAU in 2 years with 50%+ day-2 retention. Built multilingual ops teams across Spanish, Portuguese, and English markets.

  4. 2017 — 2020
    Product Lead
    NARVII / AMINO

    Global interest-based community (acquired by MediaLab). $0 → $130K+ MRR in 2 months. Session time +40% to 72 mins. DAU +15% to 1.2M via recommendation optimization.

  5. 2015 — 2017
    Senior UX Designer
    JD.COM

    Led UX for JD Live streaming and core homepage channels impacting hundreds of millions of users.

EDUCATION

  1. 2012 — 2015
    M.A. in Design
    SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY

    Interaction Design · UX · Design Management. Outstanding Graduate. 3rd Prize, Tencent CXO Competition.

  2. 2008 — 2012
    B.A. in Industrial Design
    SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY

    Product Design · Information Design · Digital Media Arts. National Scholarship (Top 1%). SJTU Scholarship (Top 5%). Patent: Animal Surgery Experimental Platform.

CORE COMPETENCIES

  • AI Product Design

    Designing AI-native flows where the model disappears and the user moment is all that’s left. Thinking through uncertainty, latency, and failure modes as first-class design problems.

  • Prompt Engineering & AI UX

    Designing prompt systems, handling model uncertainty in UI, and building self-correcting flows that keep humans in control. Hands-on with Claude, GPT, Doubao, and Gemini APIs daily.

  • Full-stack AI Prototyping

    Shipping AI products end-to-end with Claude Code, Cursor, and modern web stacks. Three live products built solo — from idea to production in days, not months.

  • Multi-model Orchestration

    Chaining LLMs, diffusion models, and vision models into cohesive product experiences. Viostyle runs 5 models in one conversation; each product is a working multi-model system, not a wrapper.

  • Product Strategy & 0 → 1

    Defining vision, validating with users, and shipping from concept to launch. Proven across 4 startups and 3 live AI products — each one designed, coded, and shipped solo.

  • User Growth & Retention at Scale

    From acquisition loops to monetization — proven at 800K MAU with 50%+ day-2 retention and $130K+ monthly revenue.

  • Cross-cultural & Global UX

    Shipping products across global Gen Z, Web3 and e-commerce audiences. Multilingual operations across EN, ES, PT and CN.

  • Cross-functional Leadership

    Building and leading global teams across product, design, engineering and regional ops. Comfortable as both IC and lead.

MY TOOLKIT

  • Figma Design & prototyping
  • Claude Development & AI
  • Codex AI engineering
  • VS Code Coding
  • OpenClaw Local AI agent
  • Gemini Multi-modal AI
  • Lark
    Lark Team communication
  • GitHub Version control