Distributed Systems & AI
Computing Science (AI) at the University of Alberta. I build event-driven platforms, backend infrastructure, and applied ML systems that scale.
Building
Case Study · City of Edmonton
A production certification and competency-tracking platform for the City of Edmonton’s Waste Services Training branch. ION replaced spreadsheet-based tracking of operator certifications, annual competency assessments, and level-up paths across the city’s work areas.
Waste Services runs operators through 3-year certification cycles, annual competency assessments, and level-up training across a hierarchy of work areas. Tracking who is certified, on what equipment, and when it expires was manual and error-prone — and getting it wrong can put an uncertified operator on city equipment. ION models the whole lifecycle, including incident-driven recertification. Real app, real city operators.
Access control
Supervisors see only their own work areas, with authority cascading down a parent→child work-area tree. A data-driven permission check gates the screen; a two-pane work-area layout drives operator and path loading on selection.
Assessment engine
Wired a custom JSON-driven assessment engine into a full catalogue UI with active/inactive states, live save and validation, and a scoring model. Root-caused two subtle bugs: the engine only read its config on mount, and score calculation broke on serialization.
Path lifecycle
Designed the rule that completing a certification course auto-creates the learner’s competency path (defaulted inactive), removing manual supervisor overhead — with duplicate-path guards per work area and multiple paths permitted across areas.
CSS architecture
Owned the global stylesheet: reusable classes in a clean split from screen-specific overrides, keeping the City of Edmonton design system consistent across every screen.
What I learned
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parameter instead.
Certifications
AWS
Foundational cloud, security, and billing best practices.
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Skills
Projects
MLP with forward pass, backprop, and minibatch SGD written from scratch in pure JavaScript — zero ML libraries — training live in the browser.
Contributing fixes to LiteLLM, the widely used open source LLM proxy — currently in maintainer review.
Lightweight gateway that routes chat requests to providers and logs every request for observability.
A node in a live federated network: four independent teams built servers from a shared API spec, and posts, likes, comments, and follows cross node boundaries. Contributor on an 8-person team.
Microservices-based streaming stack with separate API, worker, and storage services for independent scaling and fault isolation.
Event-driven platform with Go microservices and Kafka to decouple order intake, dispatch, and routing.
Real-time event lottery app with secure role-based access and fast check-in flows.
Designed test cases from system requirements and edge cases.
92% lap completion with CNN feature extraction and stable target updates.
Ensemble soft-voting classifier (Naive Bayes + SVC + Extra Trees) trained on a 60k-message SMS dataset, tuned to minimize false positives on legitimate messages.
Experience
Education
Sep 2022 – Dec 2026
Edmonton, AB
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