AI Dev Consultant + Trainer

I set up agent driven development pipelines and processes so engineering teams ship reliable software faster

CTO & Co-Founder, AI Buddy Catalyst Labs • Ottawa, Canada

3+ Years Building AI Agents
7 Country Distributed Team
300+ Employee Org Transformed

Tech companies know they need to move faster with AI. Most just don't know where to start.

I help engineering teams adopt agent driven development. Full pipelines and processes where AI agents go from spec to verified, production ready code, with the trust layers that make the software actually reliable.

I deliver this three ways: Engineering Team Training Sessions, Consulting Engagements, and 1:1 Coaching for founders, CTOs, and senior engineers. I currently run this program for a 300+ employee engineering organization.

I authored “AI Agent 2026.” My second book, “The Bottleneck Shift,” is coming soon. It argues that code generation is no longer the bottleneck in software, verification is, and that most engineering leaders are still solving the old problem. A 90 day playbook for CTOs ready to restructure their team around the shift.

Agent Driven Development

Spec driven pipelines where AI agents go from requirements to verified, production ready code.

Training & Coaching

Engineering team training sessions and 1:1 coaching for founders, CTOs, and senior engineers moving from vibe coding to spec driven pipelines.

Global Team, Local Roots

Ottawa based company with a distributed engineering team across 7 countries. Building production software daily.

Two Books

“AI Agent 2026” published. “The Bottleneck Shift,” a 90 day CTO playbook for the verification era, coming soon.

Three ways to work together

One offering, three modalities. Every engagement starts with understanding where your engineering team actually is and where it needs to go.

Engineering Team Training Sessions

Hands on workshops that move your engineers from vibe coding to spec driven, agent led pipelines. Red/green TDD with agents, a 6 layer trust verification system, and the methodology to move teams from Level 2 to Level 4.

Custom scoped

Consulting Engagements

Maturity assessment, pipeline design, verification systems, and rollout strategy. I sit with your engineering leadership and architect the shift from traditional coding to agent driven development.

$70/hr

1:1 Coaching

Direct work with founders, CTOs, and senior engineers who want to operate at the frontier of agent driven dev. Weekly working sessions on your real problems, your real codebase, your real team.

$70/hr

Where I've built and led

May 2025 – Present
Co-founder & CTO
AI Buddy Catalyst Labs Inc.
Leading a distributed engineering team building production grade, multi tenant SaaS products with deep domain logic using agentic development pipelines. Architecting advanced RAG systems, AI native workflows, and enterprise integrations on Azure.
Mar 2026 – Present
AI Specialist (Consultant)
Riseup Labs
Consulting a 300+ team software company on AI transformation. Agent driven development strategy, AI product auditing, and building AI first engineering culture across the organization.
Nov 2022 – Nov 2025
Chief Technology Officer
Bismo
Custom AI services for financial sector clients. AI automation, legacy system integration, and building a unified AI powered platform. Led backend architecture, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines.
Feb 2024 – Apr 2025
Chief Technology Officer
Katerout
US based catering marketplace. Led technical architecture and engineering team for the platform.

Projects I've shipped

SaaS Platform

Multi-Tenant SaaS with Complex RBAC

Production grade sports management platform for a Belgian client. Multi-party payment routing via Stripe Connect, full CI/CD pipeline, Azure infrastructure with security hardening.

AI Product

Doc Director: Hybrid RAG Document Platform

AI document platform with voice onboarding, semantic chunking, hybrid retrieval, knowledge graphs, and multi model AI architecture.

Open Source

InstaRAG: Production RAG Pipeline Library

Open source library for building production ready RAG pipelines. Semantic chunking, hybrid retrieval with BM25 and vectors, and structured output validation.

What I write about

Thoughts on agentic engineering, AI verification, and the future of software development.

LinkedIn • 2 days ago

When the AI Agent Writes “return true” to Pass Your Tests

Goodhart's Law playing out in real time. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Why property based tests and holdout scenarios matter more than ever.

Agentic Coding Code Quality Verification
LinkedIn • 5 days ago

The November 2025 Inflection Point That Changed Everything

Every coding agent before November 2025 had the same fatal flaw. Then something flipped. How inference time optimization inverted the error dynamic entirely.

Dark Factory LLMs AI Infrastructure

Tools I build with daily

Claude API Claude Code MCP OpenAI API Python Node.js TypeScript NestJS PostgreSQL Neo4j Qdrant Redis Docker Azure Next.js GitHub Actions Prisma React

What clients say

“Working with Aukik was an absolute delight! He is truly a jackpot when it comes to professionalism and talent.”

Upwork Client
5.0 Rating • Lead Generation Automation
Published Author
Azure Certified
ML Specialization
5.0 Upwork Rating
3.93/4 CGPA

Ready to move on AI?

If your engineering org wants to move beyond vibe coding and ship reliably with agent driven dev, let's talk strategy first. No pitch, just problem solving.

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