π» 3rd-year Computer Science & Economics (Honours Co-op) student at McMaster University π€ Interested in AI agent systems, backend infrastructure, and full-stack development π Open-source contributor on Drasil, a McMaster research project π I build things that actually ship β not just prototypes
Full-stack OCR pipeline (Next.js frontend on Vercel, FastAPI backend on Modal) that converts handwritten notes into editable LaTeX in real time, streaming results via Server-Sent Events. Confidence-gated fallback OCR system plus an LLM correction pass, benchmarked at 71.4% mean character accuracy on real photographed handwritten notes. Full CI test suite on every push.
π MathScan Β· Live: math-scan-lake.vercel.app
Real-time observability API detecting AI agent hallucinations, tool-call loops, and reasoning drift via a per-span composite anomaly scorer combining linguistic, latency, and retry-pattern signals. Three-tier automated remediation (WARN / PAUSE-with-human-gate / ABORT), backed by 31 unit tests. Submitted to the Splunk Agentic Ops Hackathon ($20K prize pool, 1,300+ participants).
π AgentSentinel Β· π₯ Demo
Full-stack AI pipeline built in 24 hours β React/TypeScript frontend, FastAPI backend, real-time audio classification using MFCC, spectral centroid, and zero-crossing rate features. Placed 3rd of 20+ teams (Health & Aging track) at MacHacks 2026.
π DysphagiaSense
Merged 10 pull requests into a multi-package Haskell codebase spanning printer backends, code generators (C#, Python, Java), and requirements-engineering domain logic β used across 10+ downstream case studies. McMaster research project supervised by Dr. Jacques Carette and Dr. Spencer Smith.
π Drasil
Languages Python β’ TypeScript β’ JavaScript β’ Java β’ C β’ SQL β’ Go β’ Haskell β’ HTML/CSS
Frameworks & Libraries FastAPI β’ React β’ Next.js β’ Node.js β’ REST APIs β’ NumPy β’ Pandas β’ Librosa
Cloud & DevOps AWS β’ Docker β’ Modal (serverless) β’ CI/CD (GitHub Actions) β’ PostgreSQL β’ MySQL β’ Git β’ Linux
Concepts OOP β’ Distributed Systems β’ Unit Testing β’ Agile β’ API Design
- Shipping full-stack systems end-to-end β idea to deployment, not just demos
- Debugging real production issues (deployment failures, root-cause fixes) rather than working around them
- AI/agent infrastructure: observability, evaluation, and reliability
- Writing tested, maintainable code with real CI pipelines
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