about
Hi, I'm August, a third year CS student.
In my free time I enjoy reading and exercising.
I'm a Porsche fan and hope to own a 987.2 Boxster Spyder in the future. The FL5 Type R, ND2 MX-5, and GR86 are also pretty cool.
experience
- LLM & NLU Developer @ iNAGO (01/2026-Present)
- Founder & Director @ Læra Labs (10/2025-Present)
- Undergraduate Researcher @ WLU (08/2025-Present)
- President @ Laurier Cybersecurity Club (04/2024-01/2026)
- Machine Learning Intern @ Phase-5 (06/2024-01/2025)
Training Language Models & using them with RAG.
Building specialty small and large language models.
Developed and wrote a paper on an LLM-based Agent system for supply-demand optimization of taxi services.
Researching the use of LLM-based Agents for Multi-Stakeholder Policy Coordination in Multi Modal Systems
under Dr. Sehra.
Oversaw 4 departments (Tech, Events, Finance, Content).
Managed hiring and a large club budget for 300+ members.
Organized technical events with considerable prizes for hundreds of attendees.
Developed a localized agentic RAG prototype using Llama3, Phi3, Mistral, all-MiniLM-L6-v2, used for querying a large dataset of mixed quantitative and qualitative data.
Implemented Agentic/multi-model architecture for text generation, evaluation, parsing, and embedding.
Utilized SOTA models such as Command R to increase context token length limits from 8000 to 128,000.
Collaborated with industry professionals on production-level ML systems and local LLM deployment + GPU infrastructure.
awards
1st Place - Jane Street Estimathon @ HT6 (S2024)
Winner - The Golden Hack 5.0 (F2023)
Certificate of Bilingualism (French & English as first languages) - Conseil Scolaire Viamonde
Gold Entrance Scholarship - Wilfrid Laurier University