Elijah Leung
Curious builder with finance roots. Ships agent systems, writes the evals, and knows where the ROI hides.
Chicago, IL, US
I've been a builder my whole life. Songs, side projects, weird little tools, this OS. These days the things I take apart and put back together are enterprise AI systems.
Most of it starts the same way: I get curious about how something works, and I can't leave it alone.
BACKGROUND
I come from FP&A and financial operations. Forecast cycles, budgets, cloud spend. The unglamorous plumbing companies run on.
That's where you learn how a business actually behaves: where money flows, where decisions stall, and where a workaround quietly becomes the process.
In 2026 the jump became official: financial analyst → AI Transformation Engineer.
WHY AI
Most companies know they should be using AI. Fewer know where it actually pays off.
That's the part that hooks me. I can read the business case, model the ROI, and then go make the tool people end up using every day.
AI is powerful. But token bills are real, and bolting a chatbot onto a broken process is not a strategy.
WHAT I BUILD
AI tools, agent systems, automations, and prototypes that grow into production.
The model call is the easy part. The interesting questions live around it: who owns this, what happens when it fails, how do we know it's right. I design that part too.
Not slideware. Not AI theater.
HOW I WORK
Figure out the decision the system supports and what it takes to trust the result. Ship the smallest version that can prove or kill the idea. Stop when it's enough.
These days I spend as much time on how teams build as on what I ship myself: patterns, verification, and standards that turn experiments into infrastructure people depend on.
OFF THE CLOCK
I make music as Juuls Verne, start more side projects than I can reasonably finish, and run a slightly excessive omakase program for my cat, Wobbles.
Capabilities
- Enterprise AI Systems — Architecture · prototypes · production pathways
- Agent Operations — Orchestration · collaboration · verification gates
- AI Operating Models — Governance · documentation · adoption · build vs. buy
- Finance & Operations — FP&A · controls · forecasting · ROI modeling
Education
- B.S. Operations Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2021)