Wai Kit Ong is a computational biologist and founder with a PhD in microbial systems engineering and 8+ years in industrial biomanufacturing. He is building an AI-native platform for microbial strain design, focused on helping scientists organize knowledge, reason about outcomes, and move faster through the design-build-test-learn cycle. His work centers on integrating data from past experiments, literature, and biological context to support better decisions. He is motivated by the challenge of making biomanufacturing less reliant on trial and error. He is particularly interested in interpretable, context-aware AI that augments scientific intuition, helping teams make more informed decisions from concept to optimized strain.