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Ariyan Azami

Computer Engineering Student · York University

Co-Founder & Co-President, Augova

Building at the intersection of AI/ML, backend systems, and the hardware underneath them.

I'm a Computer Engineering student at York University and a co-founder of Augova, an AI automation company for small and mid-sized businesses. At Appli Solutions I build backend services for a production AI hiring platform: a recommendation engine, the connections and followers social graph, and the batch-hydration rework that cut p50 endpoint latency 5.4×. I'm second author on the Real-Time Obstacle Detection Dataset, a 25-class pedestrian obstacle benchmark submitted for publication in 2026.

About

Most of the problems I enjoy don't sit inside one discipline. They need a model, an API, and a circuit board to agree with each other, and that seam between hardware and software is where most of my work has happened.

Right now that means co-running Augova, where we build AI automation for small and mid-sized businesses, backend services at Appli Solutions, and computer vision research on the Real-Time Obstacle Detection Dataset. Earlier this year I trained U-Net segmentation models at York's Laboratory of Advanced Biotechnologies. Before university it meant competitive robotics: a national championship, a national runner-up finish, and a World Finals qualification, each one asking for mechanical design, custom PCBs, and firmware that worked on the first try.

I like shipping things that touch the real world. I'm open to research collaborations and internships, and always happy to talk with a business about what Augova could automate for it.

Education

York University

B.Eng., Computer Engineering

Sep 2025 — Apr 2029

Experience

Augova

Co-Founder & Co-President

Aug 2026 — Present

Richmond Hill, ON

Co-founded an AI automation company for small and mid-sized businesses: voice agents, document intelligence, process automation, and custom AI.Read more

Augova builds AI automation for small and mid-sized businesses: the phone line, the document pile, and the manual steps between a booking and a paid invoice. I co-founded it in August 2026 and co-lead it as co-president.

  • Lead business development, translating how each business actually runs into a tailored AI solution, and oversee our service agreements, service-level commitments, and proof period for new clients.
  • Voice agents that answer on the first ring, 24/7, in five languages, book appointments live on the call, and sync a transcript, summary, and lead fields to the CRM after every call.
  • Document intelligence that reads, classifies, and files documents as they arrive, and answers questions about an archive with citations back to the source.
  • Process automation for scheduling, invoicing, ticketing, and follow-ups, triggered by real events instead of someone remembering.
  • Custom AI for workflows nothing off the shelf fits: agentic pipelines and models trained on a client's own domain data, built into web and mobile products end to end.
More about Augova

Appli Solutions

Software Developer

Jan 2026 — Present

Toronto, ON

Backend developer on a production AI hiring platform: recommendations, the social graph, and the latency work behind them.Read more

Appli is an AI hiring and professional-marketplace platform, the LinkedIn-style side of recruiting rather than the job-board side. I work on the backend.

  • Sole developer of the community recommendation engine, now in production across four services.
  • Built the connections and followers social graph behind 14 REST endpoints.
  • Cut p50 endpoint latency 5.4× by replacing an N+1 read pattern with fixed three-round-trip batch hydration.
  • Shipped the nightly Activity Score job, a half-life decay over dozens of weighted event types.

Laboratory of Advanced Biotechnologies — York University

Machine Learning Research Assistant

Mar 2026 — Jul 2026

Toronto, ON

Trained U-Net segmentation models that localize early-stage disease markers in medical imaging.Read more
  • Developed and trained U-Net segmentation models in PyTorch and TensorFlow to localize early-stage disease markers, tuning architecture depth and augmentation for small clinical datasets.
  • Wrote Python preprocessing pipelines that normalize heterogeneous imaging inputs, later extended with Stable Diffusion synthesis.

Southshore Gastroenterology

Junior IT & Web Developer

Sep 2024 — Feb 2026

Remote

IT support and web development for a medical practice.Read more
  • Provided day-to-day IT support for a medical practice.
  • Maintained the practice's website and digital infrastructure.

Volunteering

HEART York University

Web Developer

2025 — Present

Build and maintain the web presence for HEART at York University.

Projects

Augova

The AI automation company I co-founded in August 2026 for small and mid-sized businesses: voice agents, document intelligence, process automation, and custom AI.

Aug 2026 — Present

Real-Time Obstacle Detection Dataset

Second-author benchmark paper submitted for publication in 2026: 24,326 images, 25 classes, six nano-scale YOLO detectors compared under one protocol. 83,000+ Hugging Face downloads.

Jan 2026 — Present

Prosecuto

Built at NVIDIA Spark Hack Toronto on GB10 hardware. Owned the local-inference path — on-device llama-server and vLLM NVFP4 instead of a hosted API.

May 2026 — Jun 2026

Undercut

Live used-car deal finder that flags mathematically underpriced GTA listings. Built the visualization layer and led the migration to a modular architecture.

Jan 2026 — Feb 2026

SyncAgent

Multi-agent orchestrator that runs Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex CLI on one task, coordinated through markdown files on disk. Python, zero dependencies.

Aug 2026 — Present

Custom Quadcopter Build

End-to-end embedded build — PCB design in Altium, ArduPilot firmware, DJI flight controller integration, and full PID tuning.

2025 — 2026

ATF Robotics Cup

National championship-winning autonomous robot against a 5,000+ participant field. Lead software and systems engineer across firmware, PCBs, and competition strategy.

2024 — 2025

FIRA RoboWorldCup

2nd place nationally and a World Finals qualification. Technical operations manager, troubleshooting firmware live under competition conditions.

2024 — 2025

Skills

Languages

PythonC++TypeScript / JavaScriptJavaSQLMATLAB

ML & Computer Vision

PyTorchTensorFlowUltralytics YOLOU-NetStable DiffusionOpenCVHugging FaceSAM 3Dataset Curation

LLMs & Agents

LangGraphvLLMVertex AIChroma

Backend & Cloud

FlaskREST API DesignGoogle Cloud RunFirestoreNeo4jPostgreSQLRedisDockerGitHub Actionspytest

Frontend

Next.jsReactTailwind CSS

Embedded & Hardware

ArduinoArduPilotPID TuningAltium Designer (PCB)SolidWorks

Tools

GitLinux

Contact

Open to research collaborations, internships, and conversations about what Augova could automate for your business. I read every message.