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Ariyan Azami

Computer Engineering Student · York University

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

I'm a Computer Engineering student at York University. I co-founded Augova, an AI automation company for small and mid-sized businesses, and co-led it as co-president through November 2026. At Appli AI 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 backend services at Appli AI and computer vision research on the Real-Time Obstacle Detection Dataset. From August to November 2026 I co-founded and co-led Augova, an AI automation company for small and mid-sized businesses, where I ran business development and set up how the company contracted with and delivered for its clients. 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.

Education

York University

B.Eng., Computer Engineering

Sep 2025 — Apr 2029

Experience

Augova

Co-Founder & Co-President

Aug 2026 — Nov 2026

Richmond Hill, ON

Co-founded and co-led an AI automation company for small and mid-sized businesses, running business development and client delivery terms.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-led it as co-president through November 2026, when I stepped away.

  • Led business development: met with business owners, mapped how each business actually ran, and turned that workflow into a tailored AI solution.
  • Oversaw how Augova contracted and delivered, from the service agreement and service-level commitments to the privacy and data-processing terms and the proof period every new client started with.
  • Helped shape Augova's four product lines: voice agents that answer on the first ring in five languages and book appointments live on the call; document intelligence that files incoming documents and answers questions with citations; event-driven process automation for scheduling, invoicing, and follow-ups; and custom AI for workflows nothing off the shelf fits.

Appli AI

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 2023 — Feb 2026

Remote

Remote IT and web support for a medical practice, alongside full-time study.Read more
  • Provided day-to-day IT support for staff and the practice's digital systems.
  • Maintained the practice's website and digital infrastructure.
  • Supported patient-facing communication and scheduling systems, where clarity and discretion mattered more than speed.

Volunteering

HEART York University

Web Developer

Jan 2026 — Present

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

Projects

Publications

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 and internships. I read every message.