Work Experience

• Software Architect and Developer, Reasoning Engine (personal project)

  Jul, 2024 - Present

  Developing an AI system that creates a graph-based knowledge representation to model and reason about reality, emphasizing transparency and auditability in its reasoning processes.

  • Designing a system for transparent and auditable reasoning, enabling provable statements about its alignment, intent, and safeguards against misuse

  • Implementing a modular architecture that separates graph data representation, reasoning algorithms, and external system interfaces, ensuring flexibility and independent evolution of components

  • Currently in early implementation stages, focusing on core graph operations, file handling, and laying the groundwork for advanced reasoning capabilities

• Full Stack Developer, Deltalyz Corp.

  Jul, 2023 - May, 20249 months

  Deltalyz assists businesses with their IT needs, specializing in Systems Integration, Custom Applications, Data Analytics & BI, and Corporate Training. My role was to contribute to the development of a platform and internal tools to streamline our team's work.

  • Contributed key architectural ideas during the design process: (1) Graph representation of jobs in a workflow, allowing jobs to be maximally parallelized; (2) Solution to overly expensive database reads; (3) Concurrency-safe and crash-safe design of connector to handle authentication with internet services

  • Implemented components of the platform to fit specifications

  • Developed business systems to help the company scale up

• Full Stack Developer, Metanoia Country

  Mar, 2022 - Mar, 20231 year

  Metanoia is a startup creating an ecosystem of web3 products centered around their NFT collections. I specialized in smart contract development but took on wide-ranging responsibilities to help the company reach development and sales milestones:

  • Oversaw the creation of full-stack solutions for the company, planning, reviewing, developing, testing and integrating our website's frontend, UI, backend, and blockchain layer

  • Uncovered and resolved pay discrepancies between team members and mitigated damage from a team member's compromised account, saving the company an estimated $4000-6000 per month

  • Created initiatives for improving the company's security, testing, organization, and reducing inefficiencies linked to asynchronous work with a global team

• Self-funded Investor & Entrepreneur, Private Ventures

  Mar, 2021 - May, 20221 year 2 months

  During this time I pursued investment and business opportunities:

  • Collaborated to design, build and run custom trading bots, earning a 7.7% return in 55 days, measured against a balanced asset allocation benchmark

  • Used historical backtesting with a modified grid trading algorithm to determine promising conventional trading bots to allocate resources to

  • Debugged machine-learning bots, including parameters of deep neural networks and designing custom efficient activation functions

  • Created, financed, and managed an organization in the Axie Infinity ecosystem

• Programming Educator, Confucius Centre Coquitlam

  Feb, 2018 - Feb, 20212 years 11 months

  My involvement with the Coquitlam branch of the Confucius Centre consisted of teaching programming languages Scratch, Javascript, and Java to students from elementary and middle school

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