Available for AI / Full-Stack roles — Remote or Canada

Building practical AI systems and delightful web apps

Hi, I deployed the first GenAI Chatbot in the Government of Canada. In my previous workplace, they would call me duck tape because I would fix anything. I am passionate and mesmerized about AI and it's possibilities. One of my favorite pass-times is to work on personal projects that use this amazing technology in creative ways.

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Gen AI RAG FastAPI React AWS/GCP/Azure PostgreSQL Docker & CI/CD

👔Professional Experience

Contract Gen AI and GCP Expert — SweetRush

Canada • Jul 2025 – Present

Reviewed and advised on Coursera course content, aligning with industry standards.
Built 100+ engaging materials (screen recordings, didactic images) to boost learner experience.
Collaborated with two instructional designers; improved ratings and learner satisfaction.

Full-Stack Developer — Freelance

Remote (Brazil) • Nov 2024 – Jul 2025

Developed a secure client portal with React and Python (FastAPI), backed by PostgreSQL.
Designed REST APIs for auth and personalized data; scaled to 1,000+ concurrent users.
CI/CD with GitHub Actions & Docker to AWS; delivered 99.9% uptime and rapid releases.
Partnered with UI/UX in Agile sprints to raise customer satisfaction by 15 points.

Full-time AI Developer (IT-02) — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Canada • Oct 2023 – Oct 2024

Led a team of 8 to enhance and launch an AI deduplication tool now used in AAFC’s ATIP process, saving 200+ hours/agent annually.
Built a doc parser (MS AI Hackathon) handling 100+ formats; saved 132 hours annually.
Developed flight price logging/comparison tool; achieved $10,000+ in savings in a year.
Maintained and improved AgPal Chat (first Gen AI chatbot in Canadian gov); 1,200+ farmers supported.
Drove adoption via presentations to 500+ attendees and authored technical documentation.

Co-op Student (AI Developer) — Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Canada • Apr 2023 – Sept 2023

Developed AgPal Chat using RAG over curated data; aided 700+ farmers; won Public Service Data Challenge.
Created NLP-based deduplication tool reducing ATIP deduplication time by 75%+.
Authored 10+ knowledge-sharing articles to accelerate onboarding and best practices.

🤹Skills

Generative AI

RAG LLM Fine-tuning AI Agents OpenAI Llama LangChain Vector DBs MCP

Deep Learning & NLP

ANN CNN RNN LSTM Transformers NER MLOps

Data Science

EDA Feature Engineering Deployment Statistics Linear Algebra Time Series Recommenders

Python Stack

TensorFlow PyTorch scikit-learn pandas NumPy NLTK Matplotlib Django Flask PySpark

Cloud Computing

AWS S3 EC2 Lambda SageMaker Bedrock GCP Vertex AI BigQuery GKE Azure Power Apps Entra

Infrastructure

SDLC CI/CD GitHub Actions Docker Kubernetes

Programming

Python SQL JavaScript TypeScript C# MATLAB Octave OOP

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL NoSQL GraphQL Design Normalization Administration

Developer Tools

Git GitHub Power BI REST API Databricks

Frontend

HTML CSS React Angular Vue.js Redux Tailwind

Core Competencies

Agile Leadership Technical Communication Multi‑priority Delivery Integrity & Respect Fast Learner Collaboration English/French Portuguese (Native)

🎓Education

Artificial Intelligence Software Design — Algonquin College

Sept 2022 – Aug 2023 • GPA 3.91/4.0

Knowledge representation, Python, ML (NLP, CV, DL), and data preprocessing.

MEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering — Newcastle University

Sept 2017 – Aug 2021 • 2:1 (≈ 3.7/4.0)

Strong analytical foundation and rigorous problem-solving.

🏆Awards

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

Instant Award (Aug 2023)
Emerging Talent
Rising Star
Outstanding Innovation (Jul 2024)

💬Demo

Simple RAG Chatbot

📇References

Steve Rennie — Director, AAFC

Contact provided upon request

Andy Fan — Manager, AAFC