
👋 Hi there, I'm
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 moreShow less
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.
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 moreShow less
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 moreShow less
- 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 moreShow less
- 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
ML & Computer Vision
LLMs & Agents
Backend & Cloud
Frontend
Embedded & Hardware
Tools
Contact
Open to research collaborations, internships, and conversations about what Augova could automate for your business. I read every message.