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Colman Yau

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Vice President of Engineering - Platform at PolyAI
📍 Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Colman is the Vice President of Engineering for Platform at PolyAI, where he leads four teams developing a voice-assistance building platform. Educated at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London, he previously worked at AWS, where he created and launched Amazon CodeGuru Profiler.

He led the technical development of a new generative AI platform from concept to a private beta launch in under nine weeks.

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Experience
7 Years
Current Role
Vice President of Engineering - Platform
Job Level
Senior
Location
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
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Generative AI Platforms
He leads the platform engineering team at PolyAI and posts about the capabilities of their Agent Studio for creating AI agents.
AI Agent Collaboration
He authored a blog post explaining how PolyAI uses open protocols like MCP to enable AI agents to collaborate and access context across multiple systems.
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Career

Work history

3-2024
Vice President of Engineering - Platform
PolyAI
2-2023 - 3-2024
Director of Engineering
PolyAI
8-2022 - 2-2023
Lead Platform Engineer
PolyAI
5-2019 - 5-2021
Software Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
9-2017 - 5-2019
Software Engineer
Amazon
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Education
2012 - 2015
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
University of Cambridge
2015 - 2016
Master of Science (MSc)
Imperial College London
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