I design and build AI systems that listen, speak and remember.
Software architect and team lead in Waterloo, Canada.
Helianthus annuus, after Vogel (1979)
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Streaming speech recognition. Follow-up questions that must quote what you actually said. A neural voice lip-synced at 60 frames a second. A memory you can correct. Recording that survives crashes and dead zones.
I architected the whole system and lead its development, from the iPhone and Android apps to the backend and the cloud it runs on.
Every release is a Git commit pinned to signed images, so rolling back is a revert. Every database and storage migration ran first on a copy of production. Private registry, encrypted secrets, metrics, logs and traces.
To fit a new order it shifts earlier and later stops, scores the variations and keeps the three best plans. 150 stored procedures in MySQL.
All built on a starter kit I rebuilt, plus an internal ticketing and time-tracking platform and the backend foundation the conversational AI grew out of.
Six olympiad podiums in programming and IT.
Finished a three-year software engineering program while still in high school.
Graduated with a gold medal. Won the national Cisco cybersecurity competition.
Conestoga College, Computer Programming and Analysis. GPA 3.97, High Honours.
Full-stack engineer at REA.
Lead architect of a conversational AI platform.
Outside of work: eight years of boxing, five of swimming.