日月神教

Sun Moon Divine Cult

Bill Zhang
AI engineer. Builder of voice-first systems.

Loading the sect

Read as page

日月神教Sun Moon Divine Cult

Bill Zhang

AI engineer. Builder of voice-first systems.

I'm Bill Zhang. By day I build LLM agents at Pinterest. By night I build software you can talk to, which is how I ended up with 36 hackathon wins. This page is one of those builds. Go on, ask it something.

This site is a 3D flight through 日月神教, the Sun Moon Divine Cult, with a voice guide you can talk to. Both need JavaScript, so here is the whole portfolio as text.

About Heart-Mirror Terrace 心镜台

  • Most of my work is failure handling.

    Latency, interrupted sentences, tool calls that half-fail, a model that answers the wrong question with total confidence. At Scale AI I shipped a multi-agent system that works through up to 20K denied claims a week, and owned the eval framework that moved audit accuracy from 64% to 88%. Almost all of that came out of the failure cases.

  • Software you can talk to.

    A 911 console that triages live calls, a whole bank that runs inside a phone call, a food-rescue network that dispatches by voice, game tape you can question mid-replay. Several of them need nothing but a phone. No app, no internet.

  • One idea, end to end, in 36 hours.

    At a hackathon I pick one idea and make it actually work. Dispatch AI was a phone line, a fine-tuned triage model, and a dispatcher screen. It won the $25K SkyDeck grand prize at Berkeley against 900+ people, plus a separate $25K investment from AIC.

  • Talking is the interface of the future.

    Most people can speak several times faster than they type, with a fraction of the effort. And while you talk, your hands are free for whatever else you were doing. That is why this site listens instead of making you click, and why TalkTuahBank handles balances, transfers, and bill pay by voice alone. No app, no data plan.

Projects Artifact Forge Peak 炼器峰

  • SentinelAI

    2025

    Always-on public safety AI. Monitors building audio, detects panic, and triggers a multi-agent response in real time.

  • CourtVision

    2025

    3D AI replay for coaches, analysts, and refs. Turns 2D sports footage into voice-queryable tactical views.

  • Dispatch AI

    2024 · Grand Prize, UC Berkeley AI Hackathon 2024

    Empathetic 911 dispatcher co-pilot. Aggregates emergency calls, triages severity, extracts context, and keeps humans in control.

  • TalkTuahBank

    2024 · Grand + Goldman Sachs, HackUTD 2024

    Voice banking over a regular phone call. No internet, smartphone, or banking app required.

  • AdaptEd

    2024 · Google Challenge, LA Hacks 2024

    Lectures that talk back. A voice tutor with Gemini-driven slides and emotion-aware pacing.

  • SlugLoop

    2023 · MLH GitHub, CruzHacks 2023

    Real-time UCSC loop bus tracker. Helped students see live campus bus locations and reduce pressure on metro routes.

  • Vocalyze

    2025 · Letta + Finance, HackMerced X

    Conversational AI for bank applications. Answer the questions on a call and the form fills itself in as you talk.

  • SoundSearch

    2024 · NLX Overall, AI ATL 2024

    Phone-call voice guidance for complex websites. A caller gets step-by-step spoken help while the page highlights what to do next.

  • SwarmAid

    2024 · 2nd Place, Hack Dearborn 2024

    Decentralized food rescue agents. Matches surplus suppliers to food banks and shelters with real-time logistics planning.

  • SecWay

    2025

    Lightweight browser security companion. Explains risky permissions in plain English instead of scaring users.

  • SlugMeditate

    2025

    Transform a calming thought into an immersive VR journey with generative media and Gaussian splats.

  • TalkTuahDuck

    2025

    Rubber-duck your study materials. Upload messy notes and talk through them until they click.

  • TeamFood Tactics

    2025 · Sustainability, SpartaHack X

    Voice-based food distribution assistant. Any phone can log surplus food or find nearby help.

  • SplatNFT

    2024 · SolanaU, SoCal Tech Week

    Gaussian Splatting plus NFTs. Turn personal video into interactive 3D assets minted on Solana.

  • InstaRizz

    2024

    Wearable-powered social assistant. Ray-Ban live video becomes real-time bios and pickup lines.

Hackathons Sword-Discussion Arena 论剑台

36 hackathon wins.

  • Berkeley AI Hackathon 2024: Grand Prize · $25k SkyDeck

    DispatchAI

  • HackUTD 2024: Grand Prize + Goldman Sachs

    TalkTuahBank

  • HackDavis 2025: Best AI/ML Hack

    SentinelAI

  • VTHacks 2024: Best Startup Hack

    linguify

  • YaleHacks 2024: 1st Place

    Tidbits

  • LAHacks 2024: Google Challenge

    AdaptED

  • AIATL 2023: Most Innovative Startup

    WebWeaver

  • AIATL 2024: NLX Overall

    SoundSearch

  • HackMerced 2025: Letta AI + Finance

    Vocalyze

  • SpartaHacks 2025: Sustainability

    Team Food Tactics

  • CruzHacks 2025: Niantic WebXR

    SlugMeditate

  • SoCalTechWeek 2024: Solana University

    SplatNFT

  • HackMerced 2024: Letta + Finance

    PyPointer

  • DiamondHacks 2024: Captain's Classroom

    ABSeas

  • IrvineHacks 2024: Best Travel Hack

    XPlore

  • HackDearborn 2024: 2nd Place

    SwarmAID

  • Uncommon Hacks 2024: Programmatic Art

    Mad Lyrics

  • HackDavis 2024: Best Intel Dev Cloud

    Doggo AI

  • QWER Hacks 2024: Best Google Cloud

    Talking Terry

  • CruzHacks 2023: MLH GitHub

    SlugLoop

  • CruzHacks 2022: QB3 @ UCSC

    Covinet

  • SBHacks 2023: Student Life Hack

    GitPT

  • HackDavis 2023: Best MongoDB Atlas

    IntelliConverse

  • CitrusHacks 2023: New Frontiers

    MonkeySign

  • ACMHacks 2023: Best Global Solution

    Assistance

  • Hackrithmitic 2023: Best Data Science

    PaddyPlantPrognosis

  • AI Hacks 2022: 1st Overall

    Progno D

  • WildHacks 2022: 2nd Overall

    Wonder

  • Hacks for Hackers 2023: 3rd Overall

    Architect

  • Opportunity Hacks 2022: 3rd Place

    Volunteer Hub

  • Web3Apps 2023: Microsoft Cloud + Circle

    Fundraiser

  • Planet Unity 2023: Top 10

    Sink or Swim

  • GraceHacks 2022: Best Mobile

    Pool Party

  • PeddieHacks 2022: Innovation Prize (HS)

    Remote Trainer

  • Funathon 2022: Participation Prize

    Tetris Duels

  • FullyHacks 2024: 1st Place

    Tank

Experience Mission Hall 任务殿

  • Software Engineer II, Pinterest · San Francisco

    Jul 2026 — Now

    Building and deploying LLM agent systems for internal and partner-facing workflows: agent design, tool use, RAG integration, and production guardrails.

    Partnering with product and engineering teams to set the evaluation, quality, and cost bar each solution must clear before launch.

  • Applied AI Engineer (Forward-Deployed), Scale AI · San Francisco

    Jun 2025 — Jul 2026

    Shipped a production multi-agent system that automates denied-claim investigations, with 3 sub-agents covering 20 policy workflows.

    Scaled it to 300–500 weekly users and up to 20K claims a week.

    Led agent design for a major news publisher's AI agent, launched publicly in Nov 2025 over a 102-year archive in 13 languages.

    Owned the LLM-as-judge eval framework that took QA-audit accuracy from 64% → 88% and helped close a seven-figure expansion.

    Cut the cost of a full health-system validation run about 4× ($4.6K → ~$1.2K).

  • AI Engineer, RingCentral · Remote

    Jun 2023 — Jun 2025

    Joined as a senior AI intern in June 2023 and converted to full-time that August.

    Built an LLM analytics and evaluation pipeline that grew coverage of 10,000+ weekly support chats from 1–2% to 100%.

    Cut processing time for that pipeline from 8 hours to 1.

    Added rubric-based retrieval scoring and 20 monitoring dashboards, lifting accuracy 90% → 95% and dropping human hand-offs 40% → 13%.

  • Co-founder + CFO, Dispatch AI · Remote

    Jun 2024 — Dec 2024

    Built an emergency-response AI platform with Berkeley SkyDeck funding.

    Solo-engineered the low-latency voice agent and telephony behind the dispatcher demo: intent routing, emotion signals, and structured handoff to responders.

    Won the Grand Prize at the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon against 900+ participants.

    Earned $50K in total investment across two awards: the $25K Berkeley SkyDeck grand prize and a separate $25K investment from AIC.

  • Founder, SlugLoop · Santa Cruz

    Feb 2023 — Jun 2024

    Founded and shipped UCSC's real-time bus tracker, which served 20,000+ users.

    Placed Global Top 10 out of 2,000+ projects in the Google Solution Challenge.

  • CS Instructor + Teaching Assistant, X-Camp Academy · San Jose

    Jun 2022 — Dec 2023

    Taught Python through a challenge-based curriculum.

    Coached USACO students from Bronze toward Silver through algorithm practice, debugging, and contest prep.

  • Hackathon Mainstay, 36 wins across the hackathon circuit

    2023 — 2025+

    Competed mostly during college; still enter a few events a year.

    Most of the projects on this page started as weekend builds.

    Judged LA Hacks 2026.

    Upcoming: confirmed as a judge for the LA Hacks AI Hackathon.

Education Scripture Pavilion 藏经阁

  • University of Southern California

    M.S. Computer Science, AI Specialization · Aug 2023 — May 2025

    Graduate-level ML, applied AI, agentic systems. Built voice-first products throughout.

  • UC Santa Cruz

    B.S. Computer Science · Sep 2020 — Mar 2023

    Finished a 4-year program in 2.5 years. Caught the hackathon bug.

  • Lynbrook High School

    College Prep · 2016 — 2020

    South Bay. Arrived already coding, thanks to an iD Tech camp in middle school.

Skills Stele Forest 碑林

I build voice-first agents. I care about latency, keeping a human in the loop, and what happens when the model is wrong.

Resume Jade Slip Pavilion 玉简阁

  • Resume (PDF)

    AI engineer: voice-first agents, multimodal pipelines, real-time inference.

    Pinterest: LLM agent systems, RAG, production guardrails. Previously Scale AI.

    USC: M.S. Computer Science, AI specialization.

    Stack: TypeScript / Python / Rust, Next.js, Retell, Twilio, Mistral, Llama.

How this site works Grand Sect-Protecting Formation 护宗大阵

Ask about a project and the agent looks it up, describes it, and opens it on the page. Retell carries the audio, Deepgram hears you, GPT-5.6 Terra thinks, ElevenLabs talks back. A Python backend runs the agent and tells the browser where to fly.

Off the clock Cave Abode 洞府

  • A few true things.

    Finished a 4-year CS degree in 2.5 years.

    Won my first hackathon at 17.

    Speaks Mandarin and English; building agents in both.

    Plays drums and piano when the laptop is closed.

    Still chasing the best bowl of noodles in San Francisco.

    Convinced everyone gets a personal Jarvis eventually: an AI you just talk to, in real time. Building toward it.

    Would rather talk to software than tap through it. Hence this site.

Contact Moon-Gazing Terrace 望月台