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Mat Siems — AI Engineer & Consultant.

15+ years of technical delivery across AI systems, backend engineering, and cloud automation. LLM architectures, multimodal generation, and end-to-end AI pipelines — shipped in production.

Summary

AI Engineer and Workflow Automation Consultant with 15+ years of technical delivery across AI systems, backend engineering, and cloud automation.

Specialises in LLM architectures, multimodal generation (video, audio, image), and end-to-end AI pipelines using FastAPI, cloud infrastructure, and frontier models.

Delivers AI tools that automate workflows, generate media at scale, and integrate tightly with production-grade APIs and databases.

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Current tech stack

The toolkit, today.

What I reach for in 2026 — frontier models, open-source rendering, FastAPI on the backend, AWS underneath.

AI Development
  • Antigravity
  • Google AI Studio
  • Gemini 3.0
  • GPT-5.2
  • Codex
  • Custom Assistants
  • Claude
  • Canvas / Voice / Agents
  • LLM APIs (OpenAI · OpenRouter · Runware)
  • Ollama
  • PyTorch
  • Fooocus
  • Sora
Backend
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • MongoDB
  • REST APIs
  • JSON pipelines
  • Bash
  • Jinja2
Cloud & DevOps
  • AWS (EC2 · S3 · Route53)
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • GitHub
  • NGINX
Frontend
  • React
  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS
  • Tailwind
  • Jinja2
Workflow
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • Lean
  • MVP delivery
  • JIRA
  • Sprints
  • Product Increments
Docs
  • MkDocs
  • Markdown
  • Confluence
  • Google Workspace
Latest AI projects · 2025

Three pipelines, one stack.

Video, audio, image — each end-to-end on FastAPI + cloud, each shipping thousands of assets in production.

VADAI
AI Video Generation Platform

Script-to-video engine with cinematic prompt creation, auto-generation, rendering, and publishing.

  • FastAPI
  • MongoDB
  • OpenRouter
  • Runware / WAN
Outcome

1,000+ AI videos generated end-to-end for YouTube & TikTok.

AudioAI
AI Audio & Podcast Engine

TTS / STT generation (Coqui, Whisper, Runware), custom voice setup, batch audio pipelines.

  • FastAPI
  • Coqui
  • Whisper
  • Runware
Outcome

Multi-model orchestration backend serving daily audio output.

ImagAI
AI Image Generation Engine

Automated TTI pipelines using SDXL, Fooocus, Stability Matrix, with cloud and local rendering.

  • SDXL
  • Fooocus
  • Stability Matrix
  • AWS
Outcome

Thousands of high-quality visuals delivered for apps and content systems.

AI Engineering skills

Ten lenses on the work.

  1. 01
    Core AI Engineering

    LLMs · ML / DL · Tokenization · Prompt & Context Engineering · AI memory & grounding · Data integration · Function Calling · Fine-Tuning

  2. 02
    RAG & Knowledge Systems

    Embeddings · Vector DBs · Semantic & Hybrid Search · Chunking · Knowledge Graphs · Retrieval Optimisation · LlamaIndex · Assistants API

  3. 03
    AI Agents

    Multi-agent orchestration (n8n) · Agentic Planning · Tool Use · Memory / State Mgmt · Voice / Research Agents · AutoGPT / BabyAGI flows · MCP

  4. 04
    Generative AI

    TTI (SDXL, Fooocus) · TTV (Runware, Sora, Cloudware) · TTS / STT (Whisper, Coqui) · Multimodal pipelines

  5. 05
    Models & Platforms

    GPT-5 · Claude · Gemini 2.5 · Hugging Face · Open-source LLMs · OpenAI · Google AI Studio · OpenRouter · Runware · Alibaba Model Studio

  6. 06
    Backend & APIs

    Python · FastAPI · Streamlit · REST / JSON APIs · Inference pipelines

  7. 07
    Cloud, DevOps & Deployment

    AWS / GCP · EC2 · S3 · Docker · CI/CD · NGINX

  8. 08
    Data Engineering & Maths

    MongoDB schema design · Data Pipelines · Metadata automation · Vector Search · Statistics · Linear Algebra · Calculus

  9. 09
    Frontend & Prototyping

    React · Tailwind · shadcn/ui · Bootstrap · Jinja2 · Rapid prototyping

  10. 10
    Product, Governance & Leadership

    Agile / Scrum · MVP delivery · Lean · User Stories · JIRA · MkDocs · Confluence · GDPR · Responsible AI · Safety Testing · Explainability · Cost Optimisation · Storytelling · Stakeholder Alignment

Experience

Eight years, six engagements, one through-line.

From digital transformation to AI engineering — shipping production systems for regulated, large-scale organisations.

  1. Cleverfox AI
    2025 – 2026
    Senior AI Engineer & Consultant

    Built and delivered production GenAI solutions (LLM apps, RAG / knowledge search, agent workflows), integrating APIs and data sources and shipping secure, scalable deployments.

  2. Allianz
    2024 – 2025
    AI Consultant · Technical PM

    Delivered Copilot Studio assistants, voice automation, and AI-driven contact-centre workflows.

  3. RWS
    2023
    Technical PM & AI Consultant

    Integrated AI translation workflows and led Agile delivery across engineering teams.

  4. Sainsbury's
    2022
    Technical Delivery Manager

    Delivered CI/CD data pipeline (Snowflake + Jenkins) for marketing analytics automation.

  5. Open Play
    2021
    Technical Consultant

    Delivered integrated e-commerce + leisure management platform (membership, payments, ticketing).

  6. Brittany Ferries
    2018 – 2020
    Digital Transformation Consultant

    Delivered e-commerce booking platform with AI-ready content, search, and payments architecture.

Prior engagements
  • BBC
  • AOL
  • M-Kopa
  • NBC Universal
  • Citizens Advice
  • DoubleClick (Google)
  • Expedia
Education

Three threads — engineering, AI, story.

Ongoing
AI, Data Science & Python

MongoDB University · Snowflake University · Coursera

2005
B.Comm — Decision Science & MIS

Concordia University, Montreal

1999
Film Production Diploma

Collège Stanislas, Montreal

Ready to ship?

One POM, half an hour, on the house.

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