I am a researcher in digital trade, and an explorer of AI-Native engineering and front-end aesthetics.
My academic background comes from management science and international economics, focusing on the business dynamics behind cross-border e-commerce, platform data, geopolitical policy, and global retail networks; my practical path dives deep into information technology, using data modeling to understand trade flows, front-end interfaces to express complex logic, and automation alongside Agent workflows to solve efficiency problems in real businesses.
International trade and IT are not two isolated fields. Modern cross-border trade is itself a complex network jointly supported by platform rules, data APIs, algorithmic recommendations, payment links, logistics systems, and server architectures. To truly understand digital trade, one cannot rely solely on reading reports and papers; it also requires the engineering capabilities to model problems, automate processes, and build ideas into systems.
Therefore, I continuously integrate management science, trade research, full-stack engineering, and LLM toolchains: I research cross-border B2C direct mail, platform transaction data, and trade boundary reconstruction; I also engage in operations practices on platforms like Amazon and Mercado Libre to understand product selection, listing, claim SOPs, and process control. Simultaneously, I build personal websites, open-source tools, AI workspaces, and Linux collaborative environments to form a closed loop of research, product, and technology.
I believe valuable findings should not stay only in PDF papers, but should be seen, interacted with, and reused through high-quality information technology. Good tools do not exist just to show off skills, but are defined by real-world problems.
I hope to decompose abstract business problems into systems that are analyzable, deployable, demonstrable, and continuously iterative: let models serve decisions, let interfaces carry logic, let automation enter repetitive high-cost workflows, and let technology truly respond to reality.
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Zhao Junquan / Severin
Digital Trade Engineer & Researcher