Co-founder · AI, cloud architecture & project management
Elian
Lu
From designing AI to building the cloud underneath it, then leading the team that ships it.
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Every role informs the work
Different roles. One shared language.
Elian’s career began with designing AI. From there it went down into cloud infrastructure, laying the foundations systems run on, and then across the full stack, from data and backend services to the screens people use. Elian later moved into project management, turning requirements, timelines and people with different skills into plans that ship, and teaches in several instructor roles, passing on hands-on AI and engineering experience.
Elian co-founded Velox Data in 2024 and helps build and run Halo.Project. Handling custom orders, customer support and shipping first-hand makes it clear who each architectural decision affects.
- AI design & applications
- Cloud infrastructure
- Full-stack products
- Project management & teaching
The path so far
- 01
Designing AI
The career began with designing AI: working out what models and data can actually solve, then putting AI into real workflows.
- 02
Cloud infrastructure
Next came the layer underneath, handling deployment, domains, certificates and monitoring so services launch reliably and recover quickly. The hosting platform behind more than 200 client websites grew out of this work.
- 03
Full-stack engineer
From data pipelines and backend services to the screens people use, every layer has been built by hand. Our own products, such as Hailory and Loomory, went from requirements to launch this way.
- 04
Project manager
As a project manager, the job became turning requirements, timelines and people with different skills into plans that ship, and making the trade-offs between scope, quality and time.
- 05
Instructor
Several instructor roles turn hands-on AI and engineering experience into material that learners from different backgrounds can follow.
- 06
Co-founding Velox Data
Elian co-founded Velox Data in 2024 to take on custom software and website projects, while running our own products and the Halo.Project jewelry brand.
The bridge we bring to your project
Turning business ideas into buildable systems, and technical constraints into decisions we can make together.
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