I'm Kish
Founder in Residence at Antler & Senior ML/AI Engineer πŸ‘¨πŸ½β€πŸ’»

Background

Welcome! I'm Kish, a Founder in Residence at Antler and Senior ML/AI Engineer. I'm passionate about building innovative solutions that solve real-world problems.

I'm currently building Quantify, an AI-native platform that accelerates trading strategy development from weeks to minutes. With a strong background in software engineering and a focus on performance optimization, I've worked on projects ranging from compliance dashboards to autonomous vehicle mapping. I'm particularly interested in leveraging AI and machine learning to create efficient, scalable solutions. My experience includes optimizing system performance, implementing AI-based workflows, and developing cloud-native applications.

I'm currently based in Toronto and am always excited to take on new challenges that push the boundaries of what's possible in technology.

Experience
2025 - Present
Founder, CTO
Developing an AI-native solution that compresses complex trading strategy workflows from 2-8 weeks to minutes, serving the $4.5T hedge fund industry and delivering $100K+ in efficiency savings per strategy development cycle.
2025 - Present
Entrepreneur in Residence
Antler is a global early-stage VC and accelerator that supports founders from idea to funded startups through an intensive residency program.
2025 - Present
Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML
Discovering and building GenAI/ML solutions for businesses across the Mexican economy.
IBM
2023 - 2025
Software Engineer
Worked across backend and frontend to build scalable systems that helped enterprises monitor data, improve compliance, and visualize insights more effectively.
2022 - 2023
Software Engineer
Mapping
IBM
2022 - 2022
Software Engineer
Developed a Graph2Seq-powered system that improved SQL-to-ticket matching by 75%, achieving 79.4% accuracy, and showcased the results to 450+ stakeholders across various business units.
2021 - 2021
Founder
Bootstrapped to nine clients and five-figure revenue; hit growth constraints, pivoted with lessons learned.
2020 - 2020
Software Engineer
Launched Kaagaz, a smart document scanner with 10M+ downloads and a 4.8-star rating.
2019 - 2019
Software Engineer
Incubated SmartCue, a smart home technology designed to support caregivers of individuals with dementia by helping users follow personalized daily schedules. The system was developed and tested with elderly patients at Bruyère Hospital under the guidance of Dr. Frank Knoefel and Professor Bruce Wallace.
Education
Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering
Writing
Two Weeks, Three AI Agents, and One Knowledge Graph: Building a Research Assistant
June 18, 2025
"Over the past two weeks, I built a personal research assistant that combines knowledge graphs, AI agents, and semantic search, designed to help analyze academic papers and uncover research gaps. Turns out coordinating AI agents is like herding cats, but smarter cats that occasionally refuse to talk to each other..."
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Prompt Engineering for Document Analysis: What I Learned Moving from GPT-4 to Claude 4 🧠
May 28, 2025
"The Problem: I've been working on structured data extraction from messy financial documents, think scanned invoices with handwritten notes, mixed-language contracts, tables spanning multiple pages. My GPT-4 pipeline was hitting a wall at around 60% accuracy for the test set of 500 documents that were manually labeled..."
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Skills
Languages &
Technologies
  • Python
  • Go
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
  • Docker
  • AWS
Web
Development
  • React
  • Node.js
  • FastAPI
  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • Next.js
Machine
Learning
  • PyTorch
  • Transformers
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • Scikit-learn
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