Yuklin Mao
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Global Product Lead

Yuklin Mao

I help companies put AI to work, from LLM solution design and evaluation through enterprise integration and launch. Over five years across software engineering, product, and design in Tokyo, I lead AI-adoption initiatives and translate them for the people who sign off.

AI Enablement · Systems Integration · Technical Advisory

Tokyo, Japan  ·  English, Japanese & Khmer  ·  yuklinn.work@gmail.com  ·  /in/yuklin-mao

Industries by depth of involvement Technology 30% Hospitality 25% Fintech 16% Travel & tourism 15% Education & training 14% AI & LLM Promptengineering Evals &guardrails AI agents MCP &tool-use Solutionsarchitecture Enterpriseintegration Forward-deployed Technicaladvisory Design product Research Design Test Launch Iterate feedback Design Thinking × Agile · continuous discovery
5+Years of professional experience
3Working languages
5Zero-to-one products shipped
12+Product platforms designed

What I do

how I ship, step by step

AI adoption, experiment to production

From proof of concept to production: LLM solution design, evaluation and guardrails, and AI agents with tool-use (MCP), tuned for cost and latency, rolled out across a product line.

see result →
proof ofconceptevals &guardrailsagents +tool-usecost &latencyproductionrollout

New product lines, hardware included

New product lines built from the ground up, hardware included, from customer-journey mapping and product design through prototyping and vendor selection to launch, with user feedback looping back into the roadmap.

see result →
customerjourneydesignprototypelaunchuser feedback → roadmap

Enterprise & platform integration

Enterprise systems and platforms connected through APIs, live data feeds, and channel integrations that expand distribution and reach.

see result →
systemsdatarecordsintegrationlayerplatformschannelspartners

Technical advisory & delivery

Advising the executive team and shipping reliably, weighing options with due diligence, turning trade-offs into decisions, and owning quality from review to go-live.

see result →
designengineeringbusinessthe rightcall

Press & Community

work I've contributed to, and where I give back

Press & references

SQUEEZE hotel hardware interview Beyond DX: SQUEEZE's hotel hardware development Interviewed as the hardware-development PM for KIOSK and POS (SQUEEZE Media, in Japanese) Minn and SQUEEZE on Homes and Villas by Marriott Bonvoy Select SQUEEZE Homes now on Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy The OTA channel initiative I advised on (SQUEEZE, press release) UNICEF Generation Future youth bootcamp workshop Unleashing the potential of Generation Future Led a website-development session at UNICEF Cambodia's Generation Future youth bootcamp (UNICEF) vK Club cashless payment app vK Club app: digital transformation of vKirirom Pine Resort Featured as project lead and President of Earlyphant (Find Your News) Tovtrip travel super-app Tovtrip introduces Cambodia's first travel super-app at Echelon Singapore 2026 Early UX/UI design contributor (e27)

Programs & community

  • World Robot Olympiad Cambodia 2021, Future of EnergySTEM Education Organization for CambodiaRobotics coach, Future of Energy program
  • ASEAN Data Science Explorers logoSAP Data Science ExplorerData Science enablement, 2021
  • WeDu logoWeDuWomen's leadership mentorship
  • SmartEdu University Student Development Program logoSmartEdu University Student Development Program USDP alumni council, cohort 2: helped organize and host ongoing alumni engagement activities
  • SmartStart logoSmartStart BootcampEntrepreneurship bootcamp

Contact me

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