20+ years in software, cloud architecture, and data engineering. Maintainer of the open-source db-agent project, presented at the AAAI-25 workshop on AI agents. Has trained and placed 500+ engineers across Canada and the US.
Events (7)
TorontoAI Year-End Community Mixer
A Friday evening in December: wrap up the year with Toronto's AI community. $20 includes a welcome drink and snacks. Venue and date coming soon.
Tue, December 1, 2026
Agentic AI Summit Toronto Workshop Recap: Text-to-SQL Costs
Recap of the TorontoAI text-to-SQL workshop at Agentic AI Summit Toronto, Nov 12, 2026: warehouse cost estimates and sharing an ontology without write access.
Thu, November 12, 2026
Building with AI: From Data Agents to Full-Stack Apps (with AWS User Group Toronto)
Recap: why every text-to-SQL question creates two bills, and how an ontology took a local model from 14 to 17 of 17 correct. With AWS User Group Toronto.
Wed, November 4, 2026
AI Summit 2026 Recap: What Worked, What Didn't in Enterprise AI
AI Summit 2026 recap: Air Canada, Databricks, Intel and ShyftLabs leaders on why enterprise AI projects fail, agent governance, and routing agents on CPU.
Tue, September 22, 2026
August 2026 Monthly Social Recap
TorontoAI's August 2026 meetup recap: 200+ registered, raffle prizes, a hiring survey, and the launch of TorontoAI Talent Exchange for AI job seekers.
Thu, August 13, 2026
Text-to-SQL on Databricks Lakebase — Live Build for Data Engineering Leaders
90-minute live build of a text-to-SQL agent across Databricks Lakebase, Unity Catalog, and a self-hosted vLLM — for DE leaders weighing Genie vs custom.
Wed, May 27, 2026
Build a Text-to-SQL AI Agent on Databricks — 2-Hour Bootcamp
Build and deploy a production-ready text-to-SQL AI agent on Databricks in 2 hours. Schema-aware prompts, SQL safety guardrails, and live deployment.
Sat, May 16, 2026