Wenwei Lin

Wenwei Lin 林文威

Product manager who also writes code, based in Shanghai.

I'm Wenwei Lin, a product manager who also writes code, based in Shanghai. For three years at Black Lake Technologies I built software for factories: a WPS spreadsheet add-in now used by over a thousand factories, and AI agents that read handwritten shop-floor forms (a granted patent, first inventor) and set the system up for customers. Before that I studied software engineering and was a Gold Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador. My old slogan was Tech for Humanity, and I'm still figuring out what it means.

Outside work, I read novels.

Experience

  • 2026.07 – 2026.09

    The Telos Company

    AI Product Manager

    Built an app that helps people get to know themselves through writing and talking with AI. I owned the writing part from design to implementation: iOS (SwiftUI), backend and web.

  • 2023.09 – 2026.06

    Black Lake Technologies

    Frontend Developer → Product Manager

    Software for factories. I built a WPS spreadsheet add-in that lets factories import their own spreadsheets in one click, later used by over a thousand factories. I used multimodal AI to read handwritten shop-floor work reports, which became a granted invention patent (first inventor). Later I joined the delivery team, closer to customers, and built them an AI assistant: upload a customer's existing documents and an agent configures the system.

  • 2021 – 2024

    Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador

    Gold Student Ambassador

    Ran tech talks and workshops on campus and in the community.

  • 2019 – 2024

    Jiangsu University of Technology

    B.Eng. in Software Engineering

    Switched from electronic information engineering to software engineering in my first year. First-author paper on masked face recognition (IEEE ICIPCA 2023). Thesis project Bookworm, an app that organizes reading notes with RAG and a knowledge graph.

Projects

  • Scribby · AdventureX 2025, an AI writing tool that keeps you company while you write, slowly
  • Hearing the World · Microsoft Learn Student Ambassador social impact project, describing faces, scenery and stories for people with visual impairments
  • Serendip · 2025 Microsoft AI Agent Hackathon, turning after-work tiredness into small adventures
  • Cherry Studio · Open source: 6 merged PRs
  • BotSharp · Open source: 5 merged PRs to a .NET (C#) multi-agent framework and its front end

Talks & Events

Say hi

I'd love to meet new people. If you're building software for factories or frontline workers, or figuring out how to make AI agents actually work, drop me a line. Happy to talk about front-end, iOS, my Student Ambassador days, or just a novel you liked. No need to be formal — tell me who you are and what's on your mind.

Email · wenwei66.lin@gmail.com

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