About & Education
Senior Software Engineer and Researcher specializing in Machine Learning, AI workflows, and Distributed Systems. Startup founder and data-intensive systems builder with a deep focus on NLP, graph learning, and scaling MLOps infrastructure for terabytes of unstructured data. Previous experience engineering scalable systems at Elastic and Amazon.
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Master of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Program
University of Waterloo. Completed 6 graduate-level courses in computer science and statistics. -
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (Minors Econ & Stats)
Wilfrid Laurier University.
Academic Research
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Wilfrid Laurier University at the NIST TREC 2020: Conversational Assistance
Track
Co-authored with Jiashu Zhao. Evaluates conversational search performance using a hierarchical session-based learning model with BERT encoding.
[PDF Link] - Implementing the Argument Web with LLMs: A Social Knowledge Platform for Human and Machine Reasoning
Projects Showcase
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Pizza Value Calculator
A tool and chrome extension to calculate and compare the true value of pizza deals.
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Aphorist
Building an open-source neurosymbolic ontology for argumentation knowledge graphs. Engineered an all-in-one Postgres architecture (combining Vector, Relational, and Graph mapping) to dynamically extract and structure logical relationships from unstructured text utilizing LLMs. Research on this retrieval-augmented deduplication pipeline is currently under peer review for ACL ArgMining 2026.
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SmartStow App / The Good Business Software Co.
Solo-Founder / Developer. Created the world's-first voice-powered home-inventory app, which converts audio recordings into searchable databases using programmatically orchestrated AI workflows deployed securely to GCP via Infrastructure-as-Code.
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