SOFTWARE & AI ENGINEER — ONTARIO, CANADA I build systems that run themselves. — Usama Kelani, Software & AI Engineer

Software and AI engineer building automation, internal tools, and production AI systems. By night, operator of a self-hosted cloud run by five AI agents.

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Studio portrait of Usama Kelani, Software & AI Engineer — FIG. 01 — THE OPERATOR

HOMELAB STATUS: NOMINAL 21 ACTIVE CONTAINERS 99.9% UPTIME / 90 DAYS 0 FORWARDED ROUTER PORTS 31 ACTIVE HEALTH CHECKS

01 — PAPER TRAIL

The credentials, on actual paper.

Two degrees and six certifications, most of them verifiable in one click.

Bachelor's degree

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSc)

University of SaskatchewanSEP 2021 → DEC 2024

90.4%average · Great Distinction

Dean's Honour List ×3
Academic Excellence Scholarship ×2
Golden Key International Honour Society ×2

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSc) — University of Saskatchewan

Master's degree

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

Carleton UniversityOCT 2025 → OCT 2026

Usama Kelani at University of Saskatchewan convocation, holding a Bachelor of Science degree folder — Convocation

Usama Kelani at the academic pinning ceremony — Pinning ceremony

Certifications

✓ 6 independently verifiable

AnthropicJUL 2026

Claude Certified Architect — Professional (CCA-P)
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Amazon Web ServicesJUL 2026

AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional
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Amazon Web ServicesJUL 2026

AWS Certified AI Practitioner
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Amazon Web ServicesJUL 2026

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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MicrosoftMAY 2025

Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer Associate
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MicrosoftMAY 2025

Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Business Central Functional Consultant Associate
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02 — EXPERIENCE

Production systems, shipped on the clock.

Four roles connected by the same objective: upgrade fragile manual work into reliable, maintainable systems.

JAN 2026 — AUG 2026 Ontario, Canada

Systems Support & Automation Analyst @ Techspan Industries Inc.

Automation engineering for an industrial distributor, from order intake to fleet-wide IT operations.
- Built Ordex, a Python and FastAPI tool that reads customer purchase-order PDFs and turns them into orders in the Epicor Prophet 21 ERP. It handles 1,500+ different customer layouts.
- Designed it to try the cheapest reliable method first: plain text extraction, then OCR, then a trained model. Every release has to clear a 22-module test suite before it ships.
- Answered data questions by querying MySQL and Epicor Prophet 21 directly, confirming what the database actually held and tracing where two sets of numbers had drifted apart.
- Automated software rollouts across the company fleet with PowerShell, Action1, and Group Policy, including services that restart themselves after a failure.
- Turned repetitive IT work into scheduled scripts: onboarding steps, recurring checks, and cleanup jobs that used to be done by hand.
- Ran day-to-day support across hardware, software, printers, network, VPN, accounts, Microsoft 365, and staff onboarding and offboarding.
ORDEX PIPELINE

PDF in
Deterministic extract
OCR fallback
Custom-trained model
P21 CSV out

1,500+ CUSTOMER FORMATS · 22-MODULE REGRESSION SUITE · CI/CD GATED
- Python
- FastAPI
- OCR
- LLM document parsing
- Epicor Prophet 21 ERP
- PowerShell
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FIG. 02 — Field work · patch panel⊕1 / 4
JUL 2024 — PRESENT Ontario, Canada

Software & AI Engineer @ Multiple Clients

Contract work for two clients: modernizing an accounting firm's systems, and building an agentic research platform that reports in multiple languages.
- Business Systems Analyst for A & L Accounting Services Inc., working directly with the CEO. Moving their Excel workflows onto Karbon and QuickBooks Online cut cycle time 25%.
- Built Power BI dashboards and Python and PowerShell alerts that flag system problems as they happen, which cut issue response time 40%.
- AI Engineer for Multimedia Inc., building Mirqab: an agentic Python and SQLite system that researches and scrapes 32 news and social media sources on its own.
- It reads about 1,650 posts and articles a day and rates each one for tone and trending topics.
- Human reviewers who could not see its answers rated the same items, and agreed with the model 87% of the time.
- The same pipeline then writes the findings up as multilingual PDF, PowerPoint, and Excel reports, without anyone assembling them by hand.
- Agentic AI
- Python
- SQLite
- Karbon
- QuickBooks Online
- Power BI
FIG. 03 — Systems work in the field⊕1 / 2
MAR 2025 — DEC 2025 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Contract · Remote

Software Architect & Full-Stack Developer @ OnDemand MENA

Architected an AI-powered WhatsApp engagement platform for the Saudi market from zero to working product.
- Built a WhatsApp business platform for the Saudi and Gulf market on Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Prisma, and Redis, putting CRM, campaigns, events, and automation in one place.
- Each business runs in its own space on the same system, with its own data and its own WhatsApp messaging environment.
- Built a multilingual Gemini assistant that answers from live Google Search and the platform's own data, across 40+ conversation flows, tested by 75 closed-beta users.
- Shipped role-based access, Moyasar payments, CRM integrations, and a 52-table PostgreSQL database. Paid campaigns run on the platform brought in 12% more new customers.
WhatsApp Business API
Gemini + Google Search
Vision AI
40+ intent types

SAMPLE REQUEST

“Find me a great kabsa spot near Riyadh Boulevard.”
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Redis
- Gemini
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FIG. 04 — The product page⊕1 / 2
FEB 2024 — MAY 2024 Saskatchewan, Canada

Web Developer Intern @ TrackPoint.ai

Front-end development for an AI-powered communication-training platform.
- Built the front end of an AI interview-simulation platform covering MMI, medical-school panels, coding interviews, and sales scenarios.
- Built the practice screen itself: a virtual AI interviewer with custom question sets, live performance analytics, and badges for progress.
- Turned Figma designs into reusable React components, keeping spacing, type, and interaction states in step with the design file.
- Made the interface behave the same on a phone as on a laptop, and kept the practice flow usable by keyboard as well as mouse.
- Refined it over several rounds of user-testing feedback, tightening the steps people kept getting stuck on.
- React
- JavaScript
- UI/UX
- AI products
FIG. 05 — Practice scenarios⊕1 / 3

03 — AI HOMELAB

A self-hosted cloud operated by five AI agents.

The agents have separate responsibilities, model tiers, gateways, and permission boundaries. The personality stays visible; the operational controls stay explicit.

▸ CLICK AN AGENT TO OPEN ITS DOSSIER

⬢ FLEET COREUbuntu · one box, every service

OPERATIONS RELAYlearns the workflow + the system’s personality

INFERENCE RELAYmulti-agent runtime

⬢ FLEET COREUbuntu · one box, every service

active containers: 21
AI agents: 5
forwarded router ports: 0
active health checks: 31
agent gateways: 2
% uptime · 90d: 99.9

Snapshot updated August 18, 2026

SERVICES AND OPERATIONS

AI OPERATIONS

Inference Relay
Operations Relay
Bibi · engineer
Hermy · router
Buggy · watchdog
Trader · research
Triply · fare scout

EDGE / NETWORK

Cloudflare Tunnel
Cloudflare Access
Tailscale mesh
fail2ban

MEDIA & PHOTOS

Jellyfin
Immich · AI photo search
Jellyseerr

AUTOMATION

Sonarr
Radarr
Prowlarr
Bazarr
media automation (*arr stack)
FlareSolverr

SECURITY

Vaultwarden
Cloudflare WAF
Google SSO
forced encryption

OPERATIONS

Uptime Kuma · 31 health checks
Homarr dashboard
Komodo · Docker UI
restic backups · 7d/4w/6m

01 · FAMILY & FRIENDS PATH

Cloudflare Tunnel provides outbound-only access with WAF and TLS, without exposing router ports.

02 · ADMIN PATH

Cloudflare Access with a restricted Google SSO allow-list, or an encrypted Tailscale mesh.

03 · HOST CONTROLS

Zero forwarded router ports, fail2ban active, and sensitive files restricted through host permissions.

OUTBOUND-ONLY ACCESS · ZERO FORWARDED ROUTER PORTS

FIG. 06 — The fleet, live

The fleet, at work.

Two views of the same seven agents: send one a request and watch it route, then see what they are all doing right now.

01 · Try the router

Send Hermy a request.

Hermy is the front door: every message lands with it first, and it hands the work to the agent that owns it. Scripted with the fleet's real rules; nothing here reaches the live agents.

hermy · router log

waiting for a request

02 · Live right now

Check what my agents are doing right now.

The Command Deck that runs on a screen in my office around the clock. It reads a sanitized public feed, so private work stays anonymous.

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03 · A day on the floor

Twenty-four hours, on schedule.

An ordinary day in the fleet, from the agents' own logs. Drag the hand round the clock or let it run; the gold notch on the rim is your time right now.

Hermy08:01 triaged 14 messages, 2 escalated
Bibi02:47 rotated tunnel credentials: OK
Trader06:55 pre-market regime snapshot
Buggy02:00 health sweep: 31/31 monitors green
Dealer06:00 swept 18 saved routes

Just now

00:00Buggyhealth sweep: 31/31 monitors green
00:00Dealerswept 18 saved routes
22:00Buggyhealth sweep: 31/31 monitors green
20:00Buggyhealth sweep: 31/31 monitors green

AGENT PROFILE — TRADER

PRIVATE RESEARCH

A market analyst with no trade authority.

Trader produces regime analysis, watchlists, risk sizing, and postmortems on a private dashboard. It can evaluate paper-trading evidence, but it cannot place live orders or control a brokerage account.

PERSONAL RESEARCH PROJECT