About — Yiduo Xiao · Lunarix Technologies

Section One · The role

A translator of data.

I work at the intersection where data integrity meets human communication. By training, I'm a data and BI analyst. By instinct, I'm a translator — between engineers and executives, between SQL schemas and business stakes, between English and Chinese, between what the numbers technically say and what people actually need to decide.

My path is unusual. A Bachelor's in English literature in China, then a Master's in Information Science at UW–Madison. Most people read those as opposites. I read them as the same craft: the discipline of saying exactly what is true, with care for how it lands.

That's the through-line in my work. SQL audit trails. Segregation of Duties frameworks. ERP metadata governance. Executive-facing Tableau dashboards. These look like different things — they're really one question viewed from different angles: how do you build a system whose claims you can actually defend?

I've practiced this inside IBM's enterprise ERP consulting practice, inside a 5-stakeholder logistics operation in New Jersey, and inside my own company — Lunarix Technologies LLC — where I build analytics platforms for healthcare, pharma, and supply chain clients.

Section Two · Methodology

The two-mode hand.

I think of my craft as having two modes. One that listens. One that builds. They're not separate hats — they're two ends of the same hand.

Mode 01

The listening mode

Where I spend more time than most data people do. The questions a CFO asks at 9pm that no dashboard answers. The thing a process owner is too tired to articulate. The gap between what a stakeholder requests and what they're actually protecting. Most data work fails here — not in the SQL.

Mode 02

The building mode

Where I refuse shortcuts. Clean schemas. Traceable logic. Audit-ready documentation. The kind of system where six months later, when someone asks "where did this number come from?", the answer is one click away. I'm allergic to data work that can't survive scrutiny.

The first mode is why stakeholders trust me. The second is why the auditor signs off.

A private framing, if you want one My Vedic astrology calls these Moon and Mars — both sitting in my 3rd house of communication and craft. Listening + executing as a single instinct, not two separate ones. The chart is metaphor; the working pattern is real.

Section Three · Right now

The NJ pharma corridor & enterprise risk in AI.

I'm focused on the data challenges facing New Jersey's pharma corridor — J&J, Merck, BMS, Sanofi. Problems where the data has to be right because the stakes are real: patient outcomes, regulatory exposure, board-level decisions.

E

ESG performance tracking

Scope 1–3 emissions, supplier sustainability scoring, TCFD-aligned risk decomposition — at company and supply-chain granularity.

H

Health equity gap analysis

County-level disparity analytics for the Race to Health Equity pillar — insurance coverage, provider access, racial outcome gaps.

G

GRC control frameworks

COSO / COBIT / IIA Three Lines applied to live operations, with 21 CFR Part 11–analogous audit trails and SoD remediation.

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Enterprise risk in AI

Watching closely as AI systems enter the enterprise without the audit trails and controls we spent decades building for traditional software. That gap is going to define the next wave of enterprise risk. I want to be useful when it arrives.

In parallel, I'm preparing for the CISA certification (Certified Information Systems Auditor) — formalizing the audit-discipline lens I already apply to my work.

Section Four · Beyond the work

Reading across systems.

I read across systems I'm not formally trained in — Vedic astrology, energy work, contemplative traditions. Not as escape from rigor, but as a complement to it. Some of the best frameworks for understanding people, timing, and pattern weren't written in PDFs after 1950.