I'm a senior AI engineer with over 8 years of experience building intelligent systems and machine learning solutions that transform how businesses operate. My journey in AI began with fascination for neural networks and has evolved into expertise in designing scalable, production-ready AI systems. I specialize in deploying machine learning models, with deep expertise in applied AI techniques like RAG, MCP and toolings. When I'm not tackling models, you can find me researching cutting-edge AI techniques, contributing to open-source ML projects, or mentoring aspiring engineers.
Impact Assessment Agency of Canada conducts federal impact assessments of major projects, like mines, ports, and dams, in federal jurisdiction
Brass Lion Entertainment is a game development studio dedicated to creating original fictional universes, characters, stories, and themes. Contributed to the development of online systems and live-ops features to enhance game operations.
Froglet Games is an emerging game development company known for creating engaging and innovative gaming experiences. Focused on backend systems and live-ops features for gaming platforms.
Rec Room is a virtual reality multiplayer game that enables users to create and share games and experiences collaboratively. Focused on tooling and UI development to improve developer workflows.
PointClickCare is a leading cloud-based healthcare technology provider for long-term and post-acute care facilities. Worked on MLOps pipelines and infrastructure to support machine learning operations.
Hubei Xinyegang is a historic specialty steel producer originally established during WWII. Contributed to the development and maintenance of internal enterprise systems.
Microsoft
Online (via edX)
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025
A professional program focused on building and deploying enterprise-grade AI solutions. The curriculum covers Azure AI services, Machine Learning models, natural language processing, computer vision, and the integration of Azure OpenAI with a focus on responsible and ethical AI development.
Lakehead University
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Sep 2020 – May 2023
GPA: 3.86/4.0
First Class Honours graduate. A consistent volunteer for multiple campus events, clubs, and departments.
Dalian Minzu University
Dalian, China
Sep 2008 – Jul 2012
Comprehensive engineering program covering the full software development lifecycle, from mathematical foundations to embedded real-time systems and quality assurance.
GPU-accelerated Extreme Learning Machine feature-extraction and benchmarking toolkit. Reproducible experiments, modern CUDA/C++ design, and interactive demos for researchers exploring fast ELM variants.
A plugin-first AI gateway framework. A small kernel plus seven contracts puts a governed, observable, provider-agnostic pipeline between your apps and any LLM. Built with FastAPI, LangGraph, and Docker.
A full-stack renewable energy and resource management dashboard to monitor, analyze, and optimize consumption. Built with React, Node.js, and TypeScript.
AI-powered real estate intelligence platform for neighborhood insights, ML price predictions, and automated data ingestion. Built with FastAPI, Vue 3, and Docker.
An online co-op Action RPG where players team up with the legendary Wu-Tang Clan. Built with Unreal Engine 5, C++, and C#. This game features a robust 3-player multiplayer system set in a unique Afro-surrealist world.
A vibrant puzzle game built with Unity, challenging players with fast-paced, Tetris-inspired gameplay. Master chain reactions and aim for high scores in this bubbly, arcade-style adventure.
You cannot reliably detect where an LLM runs inference. Any product claiming otherwise is overclaiming. This is about the Aegis design decisions that required admitting limits — the residency model built on declared metadata and fail-closed routing, the multi-tenancy deliberately deferred, and why the non-goals list is as load-bearing as the feature list.
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A guardrail that silently runs at reduced fidelity is worse than no guardrail, because you've stopped watching. The hardest design problem in the Aegis rewrite was keeping safety honest under streaming. Here is the four-verdict model, the capability negotiation that resolved the streaming conflict, and how the same contract ends up governing tool calls.
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The first version of Aegis worked, and that was the problem. Every governance feature was hardcoded into one request path, so every change was a core change. This is the story of throwing out the architecture and rebuilding around a small kernel and seven plugin contracts — what that bought, what it cost, and the decisions I'd defend.
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Learn how to upgrade your RAG system with hybrid search combining sparse (BM25) and dense (vector) retrieval, enhanced with cross encoder reranking for maximum precision in document question answering.
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How to build an enterprise-grade AI gateway: a provider-agnostic LLM routing layer with deterministic compliance, PII protection, and intelligent cost optimization.
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A practical guide to building a retrieval-augmented generation system for document question answering using local LLMs. Learn how to overcome outdated knowledge, hallucination risks, and privacy concerns with RAG.
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A comprehensive guide to building robust and scalable REST APIs using Node.js, Express, and modern best practices for enterprise applications.
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An opinionated, modern tour of C++11–C++20 multithreading primitives, from std::thread and mutexes to futures, async, and atomics.
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A practical walkthrough of TCP socket programming in C/C++, from basic concepts to a working echo server and client.
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How the publish-subscribe pattern helps decouple game backend modules, reduce tangled dependencies, and keep business logic maintainable under changing requirements.
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