Toolkit
The tools behind connected systems.
Grouped into three flagship capabilities and five disciplines, with an honest label for each tool: used on real projects, used at work or in prototypes, being explored, or understood at architecture level.
- Used in Projects · 19
- Practical Experience · 25
- Exploring · 14
- Architecture Knowledge · 5
Flagship capabilities
Disciplines
63 tools
Used in Projects · 19
- Used in ProjectsAI Agents & Automation
Connecting forms, messaging and business tools so work moves between steps without manual re-entry.
Experience: Designed the hand-offs on this website: the contact form routes to WhatsApp, and Build Your Stack passes a summary into 6ixOnline's enquiry form.
Works with: Forms, WhatsApp, Email
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
This website is built in React, including the interactive brain and Build Your Stack.
Works with: TypeScript, Tailwind CSS
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
Typed components and structured data (projects, toolkit, blueprints) on this site.
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
Routing, server rendering, metadata and the sitemap for this website.
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
The liquid-glass design system on this site.
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
Client websites and landing pages, including responsive layouts.
Related: VARCENNE Chauffeurs, Star Chauffeur Toronto, Tourcan Vacations
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
Built and improved client sites with quote and enquiry flows.
Related: VARCENNE Chauffeurs, Star Chauffeur Toronto, Tourcan Vacations
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
Version control and deployment for this website.
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
Hosting and production deploys for this website.
- Used in ProjectsDevelopment & Engineering
Validating data at system boundaries and applying browser security headers, so bad input and untrusted pages can't steer the application.
Experience: URL parameter allow-lists, form input limits and security headers on this website.
- Used in ProjectsMarketing & Growth
Facebook and Instagram campaigns for chauffeur and travel brands.
Related: Star Chauffeur Toronto, Tourcan Vacations
Works with: Landing pages, Lead forms, Analytics
- Used in ProjectsMarketing & Growth
Local visibility work, including profile visuals from real fleet photography.
Related: VARCENNE Chauffeurs, Star Chauffeur Toronto, Tourcan Vacations
- Used in ProjectsMarketing & Growth
Enquiry flows and lead capture connected to campaigns.
Related: Star Chauffeur Toronto, Tourcan Vacations
Works with: Forms, CRM
- Used in ProjectsMarketing & Growth
CTR, CPC, lead, enquiry and booking tracking for campaigns.
Related: Tourcan Vacations
- Used in ProjectsCreative & Content
Visual design for client websites and this portfolio.
Related: VARCENNE Chauffeurs, Star Chauffeur Toronto
- Used in ProjectsCreative & Content
Posters, promotional graphics and ad creative for travel campaigns.
Related: Tourcan Vacations
- Used in ProjectsBusiness Operations
Booking, confirmation, payment, invoice and receipt workflows for a chauffeur client.
Related: Star Chauffeur Toronto
- Used in ProjectsBusiness Operations
Systems for enquiry capture, qualification, routing, follow-up and performance reporting.
Experience: Enquiry handling and lead pipeline support.
Related: Star Chauffeur Toronto
Works with: CRM, Email, WhatsApp
- Used in ProjectsBusiness Operations
Procedures for airport, VIP, multi-stop, cancellation and wait-time scenarios.
Related: Star Chauffeur Toronto
Practical Experience · 25
- Practical ExperienceAI Agents & Automation
Claude models for code, analysis and structured reasoning, used interactively and through the Anthropic API.
Experience: AI-assisted development (including this website), workflow analysis, documentation and drafting.
Works with: Code editors, Docs, REST APIs
- Practical ExperienceAI Agents & Automation
GPT models for drafting and research, and for assistants that call defined functions.
Experience: Drafting, research, prompt design and planning for marketing and product work.
- Practical ExperienceAI Agents & Automation
Connecting language models to external APIs, structured business data and controlled tools to execute multi-step tasks.
Experience: Connected language models to app prototypes through Python and REST APIs, in local and hosted modes.
Works with: Python, REST APIs
- Practical ExperienceAI Agents & Automation
Instructions and output schemas that make model responses predictable enough for other systems to validate and use.
Experience: Structured prompts for content, classification and assistant behaviour.
- Practical ExperienceAI Agents & Automation
Evaluating and configuring locally hosted language models (Llama, Mistral and Qwen families) for application-specific inference, within the limits of the available hardware.
Experience: Ran Llama- and Mistral-family models locally through Ollama while prototyping an offline-capable assistant. Qwen-family models are being evaluated.
Works with: Python, Ollama API
- Practical ExperienceAI Agents & Automation
Speech-to-text in voice assistant prototypes.
- Practical ExperienceAI Agents & Automation
Voice output in assistant prototypes.
- Practical ExperienceDevelopment & Engineering
Scripting, data handling and AI prototypes. Certified through HCL GUVI.
Works with: Flask, REST APIs
- Practical ExperienceDevelopment & Engineering
Small Python web services for prototypes.
- Practical ExperienceDevelopment & Engineering
Building and consuming REST endpoints so business systems can exchange data reliably.
Experience: Built and consumed REST endpoints in prototypes.
- Practical ExperienceDevelopment & Engineering
Programming coursework, certified through Udemy.
- Practical ExperienceDevelopment & Engineering
Website and technical support at Tourcan Vacations.
- Practical ExperienceDevelopment & Engineering
Integrating model-serving endpoints with applications, workflow engines and business software through authenticated APIs.
Experience: Called local model endpoints from app prototypes; authenticated endpoints for business software are at design stage.
Works with: Ollama API, REST APIs, Python
- Practical ExperienceMarketing & Growth
Campaign planning, targeting and search advertising concepts.
- Practical ExperienceMarketing & Growth
Audience research, targeting, testing and optimisation at Tourcan Vacations.
- Practical ExperienceMarketing & Growth
Pages built around a single offer and conversion goal.
- Practical ExperienceMarketing & Growth
Local search and social visibility for Toronto service businesses.
- Practical ExperienceCreative & Content
Content calendars, destination campaigns and seasonal promotions at Tourcan.
- Practical ExperienceCreative & Content
Short-form campaign concepts and reels for social channels.
- Practical ExperienceCreative & Content
Website content, captions, ad copy and campaign messaging.
- Practical ExperienceBusiness Operations
Customer Service Representative at Seneca Recreation.
- Practical ExperienceBusiness Operations
Tours administration and scheduling at Tourcan Vacations.
- Practical ExperienceBusiness Operations
Outreach and partnership development for service businesses.
- Practical ExperienceBusiness Operations
Planning and delivery, backed by the Google Project Management certificate.
- Practical ExperienceBusiness Operations
Dashboards and reporting workflows that connect business data to operational decisions.
Experience: Tracked and reported campaign, enquiry and booking figures at Tourcan Vacations.
Exploring · 14
- ExploringAI Agents & Automation
Exploring Grok-powered agents, xAI integrations and tool-connected workflows for research, analysis and operational automation.
Experience: Testing Grok for research and analysis, and the xAI API for tool-connected prototypes. A Grok subscription and xAI API access are separate: the API has its own keys and usage billing.
Works with: xAI API, REST APIs
- ExploringAI Agents & Automation
Configuring Grok-based bots with defined instructions and connected workflows, separate from direct xAI API integration.
Experience: Configuring bot behaviour and testing how it fits into research and content workflows.
- ExploringAI Agents & Automation
Designing coordinated agent workflows that separate research, execution, validation and human approval responsibilities.
Experience: Role-separated agent workflows designed and documented as blueprints in Build Your Stack. Not yet running for a client.
- ExploringAI Agents & Automation
Automation architectures that combine autonomous task execution with validation, exception handling and human oversight.
Experience: Designing agent workflows with human approval steps, documented as the blueprints in Build Your Stack.
- ExploringAI Agents & Automation
Agents that start from a webhook, a new record or a schedule instead of waiting for someone to open a chat.
Experience: Testing scheduled and event-driven runs for briefing and follow-up workflows.
- ExploringAI Agents & Automation
Deciding what an assistant keeps between sessions, what it retrieves on demand and what it should never store.
Experience: Explored how assistants keep useful context between sessions.
- ExploringAI Agents & Automation
Comparing models on task quality, latency, context length, licence terms and running cost before choosing one for a workflow.
Experience: Comparing hosted and open-weight models on the same prompts during prototyping.
- ExploringDevelopment & Engineering
Cross-platform mobile app prototypes.
Works with: Firebase
- ExploringDevelopment & Engineering
Authentication and storage in app prototypes.
- ExploringDevelopment & Engineering
Retrieving relevant passages from approved documents with embeddings and a vector database, then grounding model answers in them.
Experience: Exploring retrieval pipelines for knowledge assistants; the design is documented in the Internal Knowledge Assistant blueprint.
Works with: Vector databases, Embeddings models
- ExploringDevelopment & Engineering
Running quantized model formats to fit larger models into limited memory, trading some quality for speed and cost.
Experience: Testing quantized models to compare answer quality against memory use and speed.
- ExploringDevelopment & Engineering
Containerised, reproducible model-serving environments on Linux hosts, with the model, runtime and API packaged together.
Experience: Containerising local model-serving setups so tests can be repeated on other machines.
- ExploringDevelopment & Engineering
Starting workflows from events in other systems, with signature checks, idempotency and retries.
Experience: Designing event-driven triggers for the Build Your Stack blueprints.
- ExploringBusiness Operations
Classifying incoming documents and extracting fields into structured records, with low-confidence results sent to a person.
Experience: Designed as the Document Intake blueprint in Build Your Stack.
Architecture Knowledge · 5
- Architecture KnowledgeAI Agents & Automation
Connecting controlled language-model inference with document retrieval, embeddings and permission-aware knowledge access.
Experience: Designed as the Internal Knowledge Assistant blueprint: answers drawn only from approved documents, with access following existing permissions.
- Architecture KnowledgeDevelopment & Engineering
Designing model-serving environments around GPU resources, inference endpoints, memory requirements and performance monitoring, on dedicated or cloud GPUs.
Experience: Planning GPU memory, latency, throughput and cost trade-offs; studying for NVIDIA AI Infrastructure and Operations. Not yet deployed for a client.
- Architecture KnowledgeDevelopment & Engineering
High-throughput serving with request batching and KV-cache memory management, exposed through an OpenAI-compatible API.
Experience: Studying serving architectures and their monitoring needs before a production deployment.
- Architecture KnowledgeDevelopment & Engineering
Logging each automated step, retrying safe failures, alerting on the rest and keeping an audit trail of who approved what.
Experience: Specified in the error-handling and security sections of every Build Your Stack blueprint.
- Architecture KnowledgeBusiness Operations
Approval checkpoints, exception handling and accountable oversight built into automated work.
Experience: Designed into every Build Your Stack blueprint: what the system drafts, who approves it and what gets logged.