David Robertson

David Robertson

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Applied AI Engineer | Agents, RAG, Full-Stack LLM Apps
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Starting at CAD160k/year ~USD112k/year

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  • Waymark
    Generative AI Agent Engineer
    Waymark
    Sep 2025 - Apr 2026 (8 months)
    Built AI-assisted creative workflow concepts for Waymark’s video advertising platform, focused on helping users move from business research to ad concepts, creative direction, storyboard planning, video-generation prompts, and client feedback. The work blended frontend product development, UX design, prompt architecture, and agentic workflow design to make generative video practical inside a real advertising production process.

    - Implemented rigorous data governance protocols to manage multi-step AI workflows involving diverse business, brand, and visual datasets, ensuring clear traceability across agent stages.
    - Designed robust input/output structures and quality gates to separate source data from generated artifacts, allo
  • Vantager
    Generative AI Engineer
    Vantager
    Jan 2025 - Mar 2025 (3 months)
    Job Title: Generative AI Engineer

    • Developed an AI Agent as a microservice that converts mixed-format documents into live, editable templates.
    • Achieved a significant latency reduction from 5 minutes to under 20 seconds, enhancing user experience.
    • Implemented UI streaming capabilities, allowing users to view real-time document transformation.
    • Engineered robust data governance frameworks to manage sensitive private-equity and LP reporting data, ensuring scoped data access, structured retrieval, and controlled tool use to maintain data integrity and security.
    • Established traceable output protocols and rigorous handling procedures for financial context, guaranteeing that generated reports remain accurate
  • CogniformAI
    Lead AI Software Engineer
    CogniformAI
    Sep 2024 - Current (2 years 2 months)
  • FormKit
    Full Stack Generative AI Agent Specialist
    FormKit
    Dec 2023 - Aug 2024 (9 months)
    At FormKit, I played a pivotal role in creating an AI form-building agent that translates natural language and images into dynamic form schemas. This innovation not only reduced the time to first token from over a minute to under 2 seconds but also achieved a remarkable 90% cost reduction, greatly enhancing operational efficiency. My contributions were recognized by the company, underscoring my commitment to driving impactful results.

    - Implemented rigorous data governance protocols to ensure the integrity of the AI form builder, establishing clear schema contracts, validation mechanisms, and controlled persistence. These measures were essential for the safe handling of user-provided content and maintaining a strict architectural
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    Software Engineer / Technical Specialist
    High Park Livery
    Nov 2022 - Jul 2023 (9 months)
    Built custom CRM, booking, payment, inquiry-routing, and AI-powered customer follow-up systems. Replaced earlier no-code/Zapier-style workflows with custom Vue/Nuxt and backend automation.
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    Technical & Marketing Automation Lead
    Luxury Ride Service Inc.
    Sep 2015 - Sep 2022 (7 years 1 month)
    Built and maintained lead-capture, CRM, booking, follow-up, and marketing automation workflows using Zapier, HubSpot, Google Ads, forms, email automation, and custom integrations.
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    Full-Stack Web Development Bootcamp public Remote experience
    StudioWeb
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2021 (7 months)
    Completed a structured, bootcamp-style web development program focused on practical coding fundamentals, JavaScript, backend basics, SQL/databases, and building production-style web applications.
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  • CogniformAI
    Cloud-Native Autonomous App Runtime
    CogniformAI
    Apr 2026 - Current (7 months)
    Built a GCP-native agent runtime that generates, deploys, inspects, and live-edits database-backed web apps from natural language without relying on GitHub redeploy workflows.

    - Leveraged agent development, TypeScript, and Python to architect robust, scalable runtime environments.
    - Implemented natural language processing, LangChain, and advanced prompt engineering to facilitate seamless application generation and live editing.
    - Utilized Google Cloud Platform to manage infrastructure and service deployment, ensuring high availability and system performance.
    - Designed secure AI workflows by enforcing rigorous data governance through scoped access controls, database boundaries, and structured logging.
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    Vantager Private Equity Agent
    Vantager Inc.
    Jan 2025 - Mar 2025 (3 months)
    Built a LangGraph-based agent microservice for private-equity reporting workflows, integrating complex financial data and generating investor-report outputs dramatically faster than manual work.

    • Developed and maintained the front-end template generation system using React.js and Next.js, ensuring a seamless interface for users to customize and export high-stakes private equity documentation.
  • FormKit
    FormKit AI Form Builder
    FormKit
    Dec 2023 - Aug 2024 (9 months)
    Built an AI-powered form builder that turns natural-language prompts into usable form schemas and UI, reducing manual form-creation work and becoming FormKit's flagship AI product.
    - Architected and deployed the AI form builder leveraging a robust technology stack including Vue.js, Nuxt, FastAPI, and Python to bridge user intent with functional UI components.
    - Engineered advanced AI agents and RAG pipelines using LangChain, LlamaIndex, and vector databases like Chroma and Pinecone to optimize the generation of structured data.
    - Implemented rigorous data governance practices to ensure system integrity, establishing clear schema contracts, validation protocols, and controlled persistence to safely manage user-provided form co
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    Nuxt DocusearchAI
    Personal / Nuxt Community
    Mar 2023 - Jul 2023 (5 months)
    Built an AI-enhanced documentation search project for the Nuxt ecosystem using custom documentation datasets, RAG/search workflows, and model fine-tuning/prompting to improve developer answers over standard keyword search.
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    Modular Community Champion
    Modular Inc.
    Mar 2026 - Current (8 months)
    Selected as part of Modular's Community Champion group, providing feedback and direction around Modular, Mojo, and the broader developer ecosystem.
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    How to Beat Unsloth's CUDA Kernel Using Mojo
    Modular Inc.
    Jan 2026
    Technical article published by Modular after Chris Lattner invited me to write about my Mojo GPU-kernel work and performance experiments.
  • Vue School
    Unlocking the Power of AI in Your Vue Coding Workflow
    Vue School
    Oct 2024
    Published practical guide on using AI effectively in Vue/software development workflows, including context, prompting, code review, and avoiding common AI-coding failure modes.