I design and build AI systems that listen, speak and remember.
Software architect and team lead in Waterloo, Canada.
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Work
The best part of a life story usually comes after a good follow-up question. MeMovie asks it. An animated host interviews you on camera, in English or French. It listens while you speak, follows up on your exact words and remembers what you told it last week. Your answers become a film you keep, or leave to the people you choose.
I designed it end to end and lead its development: the conversation engine, the iPhone and Android apps, the backend, and the platform it runs on.
IListening
Speech streams to recognition over a live connection, with a second provider ready if the first one fails. Names the system already knows travel with the audio, so it spells your grandmother’s name right the first time.
IIAsking
The model proposes a question together with the exact words it rests on. Checks in English and French turn away anything that leads, assumes or invents a name. The question is prepared while you review your answer, so it is ready the moment you are.
IIISpeaking
The host speaks with a neural voice and moves its face on 55 channels at 60 frames a second, from a timeline compiled for each line and stored by its content, so no sentence is ever synthesized twice.
IVRemembering
Tell it a fact is wrong, or ask it to forget, and the fact leaves every place it travelled: saved context, search embeddings, prepared questions, recorded audio. One transaction, fenced so that no older work can bring it back.
VKeeping
The phone journals every recording in five-second segments, so a crash or a lost signal costs seconds, not stories. On the server an answer, the progress it makes and the work it starts commit together in one PostgreSQL transaction, or not at all.
VIRunning
Every release is a Git commit pinned to signed images, so rolling back is a revert. Every database and storage migration was rehearsed on a copy of production first. Every firewall change is armed with an automatic rollback.
MeMovie on 16 October 2026
For five months I led three engineers through it. I wrote the design documents and interface prototypes they built from, divided the system between them, reviewed their code, and handled the conversations with stakeholders and the client.
Earlier
VIIRouting
Northern ports are supplied by tanker. I designed the scheduler that fits each new order into the fleet: it checks every ship’s draft and length against every harbour, shifts earlier and later stops inside their delivery windows, scores the variations and keeps the three best plans. 150 stored procedures in MySQL.
VIIIFoundations
CRM and operations platforms for clients in utilities, construction, logistics and project funding. I rebuilt the starter kit they all stand on, with shared authentication, permissions and graceful shutdown, and carried every upgrade into the projects already running.
About
I found programming through school olympiads and stayed for the feeling of a hard problem giving way. By the end of high school I had six city podiums in programming and IT, a three-year software engineering diploma earned alongside my classes, and a gold medal, with full marks in mathematics, physics, informatics and astronomy.
That spring I won the national Cisco cybersecurity competition. That autumn I began Computer Programming and Analysis at Conestoga College, and the next year I moved to Canada. I graduated with a 3.97 GPA and High Honours, won three monthly coding challenges and a hackathon podium with Google Developer Student Clubs, and published my first project: sorting algorithms, animated. See it sort.
I joined REA as a full-stack developer. Two years later I was leading the architecture of its conversational AI.
Outside of work: eight years of boxing, five of swimming.
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