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Shaan Suthar Team Lead RSVP Approved
Software Engineer at Shopify
Shaan architected the quantitative foundation and evolutionary intelligence of the Darwin trading system, implementing the backtesting engine that rigorously evaluates trading algorithms against historical market data to compute performance metrics including profit/loss, Sharpe ratio, and maximum drawdown. He also engineered the core evolutionary framework with the AlphaEvolveController orchestrating dual evolutionary loops, the DSPy-powered Evolver agent for intelligent code mutation, the MAP-Elites ProgramDatabase maintaining diverse elite strategy archives across risk-activity-complexity dimensions, and the DSPyCompilerAgent for meta-evolution of prompts. This dual contribution created both the evaluation infrastructure for fitness assessment and the automated discovery mechanism that evolves novel high-performing trading algorithms through quality-diversity optimization.
I'm a recent graduate from McMaster University where I studied Mechatronics Engineering. My past work experience has been in distributed systems at Microsoft and currently backend at Shopify. I've also led mechanical engineering teams on a club in University where we made an electric F1 car from scratch. Besides the mechanical and software side, I also have a background in electrical where my capstone project group and I designed an analog circuit for faster more efficient AI inference calculations. We wrote a paper on it that is published in IEEE. All in all, I have skills in many domains and believe in solving problems in general is my greatest asset. Besides that, my dream is to found and work for a startup, and that's what I'm actively working on right now!
AI, Crypto, Trading, Quantum Computing, Biotech
I'm working on replicating Deepmind's AlphaEvolve paper for financial trading.
Colin Chambachan RSVP Approved
Software Developer at RBC Borealis
Colin architected the main application interface with a sleek header featuring real-time status indicators and dynamic tab navigation, while developing the core backtesting engine that executes trading algorithms against historical data to calculate performance metrics like profit/loss, Sharpe ratio, and maximum drawdown. This dual contribution provided both the user-facing dashboard for strategy management and the quantitative evaluation foundation that powers the AlphaEvolve evolutionary algorithm selection process.
I'm a 4th year Software Engineering Student from McMaster University, with an interest in Data and AI. I recently interned at RBC Borealis developing an agentic AI solution to automate legacy code conversion for over 100 teams. Currently I'm an Undergraduate Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, where the team is investigating semantic-level uncertainty quantification in LLMs. I have a deep passion for developing robust and efficient Data and AI solutions allowing humans to become more 'lazy'. I love diving into uncharted territory and always excited to build out new things :)
I'm interested in Data and AI systems in a finance setting.
I recently built PortfolioPulse (Next.js/FastAPI/AWS), a productionized app used by 100+ users and supported by Microsoft for Startups.
Hady Ibrahim RSVP Approved
Applied Machine Learning Engineer (Incoming Summer 2026) at Shopify
Hady established the foundational trading strategy framework, defining the StrategyConfig class for configurable parameters and implementing the MyStrategy class with proper Nautilus Trader integration. He outlined the complete strategy lifecycle including bar processing, order management, position tracking, and logging infrastructure, creating a robust template that serves as the evolutionary substrate for the AlphaEvolve system to mutate and optimize trading algorithms across different market conditions and timeframes.
Applied ML engineer + builder. Previously Shopify (brand recognition at web scale, RT + streaming deploys) and Apple (macOS exploration engine in CI). Researching steerable CNNs for rotation-robust ultrasound microrobot detection. I love shipping ML systems end-to-end and hacking on agents, evals, and data tooling. linkedin.com/in/hady-ibrahim/
- Multimodal (vision/audio) — on-device + low-latency inference, tiny models, streaming ASR, and robust speech-in-noise.
- Healthcare & assistive ML — ultrasound analytics, AI hearing assistance, and DSP pipelines for real-time use.
- Open agents — tool use, planning, memory, evaluators; long-running, reliable workflows on GCP.
- Synthetic data & labeling automation — programmatic labeling, active learning, data engines, and high-signal eval sets.
1. Selective Speech Enhancement (AI Hearing Aid): Hybrid DSP+ML that “locks” onto a chosen talker; head-aim + tap-to-lock, important-sound override (alarms/name), iterative latency targets (<25 ms stretch). Building PCB clip-ons + real-time pipeline.
2. Steerable CNNs for Microrobots: C8-equivariant detection on USMicroMagSet (ultrasound dataset of microrobots) with MSE→CIoU schedule; benchmarking vs YOLO/Mask R-CNN.
Derron Li RSVP Approved
Software Engineer at Apple
Derron spearheaded the portfolio trading interface, delivering a comprehensive dashboard for real-time strategy management with performance visualization, P/L tracking across multiple trading strategies (MACD, Momentum, RSI, Bollinger Bands, ML Prediction), and key metrics including win rates, total trades, and portfolio value. The interface enables seamless strategy activation/deactivation and provides export capabilities for trade reports.
I’m a previous Software Engineer Intern at Apple and Shopify, who is also completing my studies in Software Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at McMaster University. My background blends engineering fundamentals with a passion for biomedical applications, positioning me to contribute to interdisciplinary tech projects. I hope to leverage my academic training and industry experience to innovate at the intersection of software and health technologies. I love working on large scale data problems and finding new ways to leverage AI/ML.
AI/ML (NLP & generative AI), Health‑tech / biomedical applications, Full‑stack web & mobile development, Backend microservices, Cloud deployment & Docker, Mentorship & advisory connections, Full‑time opportunities / hiring
Been playing around a lot with MCP and building Agents with LangGraph to optimize daily workflows!
Richard Li RSVP Approved
ML Platform Engineer at RBC Borealis
Richard engineered the core evolutionary intelligence system, implementing the AlphaEvolveController as the central orchestrating agent that manages dual evolutionary loops for automated trading algorithm discovery. He built the Evolver agent using DSPy for intelligent code mutation, developed the ProgramDatabase with MAP-Elites algorithm to maintain diverse elite strategy archives across multiple performance dimensions (risk profiles, activity levels, complexity), and created the DSPyCompilerAgent for meta-evolution of prompts. This framework enables systematic exploration of trading strategy space through quality-diversity optimization, automatically discovering novel high-performing algorithms across different risk-return profiles.
I'm an Engineer passionate about building platforms and tools that empower developers.
As a recent graduate from McMaster University's Software Engineering program, I now focus on platform engineering at RBC Borealis, where I work on the Lumina team responsible for scalable infrastructure on Public Cloud.
Currently, I'm actively exploring Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, and MLOps to expand my capabilities. My mission is to develop robust, scalable systems that make complex technologies accessible and efficient.
Outside of technology, you'll find me on the basketball court, exploring new places through travel, or discovering hidden food gems around Toronto. I love being curious and connecting with people from all walks of life.
Distributed Systems, Cloud Infrastructure, MLOps, DevOps/CI, Full‑stack Development, Machine Learning, Applied ML/Robotics, Platform Engineering, Scalable Public Cloud Infrastructure
Projects: Lumina (RBC Borealis) — building scalable ML platform/infrastructure on public cloud (AWS), ML pipelines and CI/CD; capstone-2025 — evolving quadruped controllers in C++/Python using MuJoCo with CI; CypherChat — full‑stack (Node.js, Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, Expo); LaaS — Flutter/Dart mobile app; Arcade — MediaPipe JS prototype; NSERC research — Python analysis of Java merge scenarios.
Himanshu Singh RSVP Approved
Student at McMaster University
Himanshu unified the evolutionary intelligence with the trading strategy substrate by engineering the end-to-end execution pipeline that bridges the AlphaEvolveController and Evolver agents with the StrategyConfig/MyStrategy framework. He implemented the evaluation stack, which included safe JSON-patch validation, deterministic walk-forward backtesting, KPI computation (Sharpe, max drawdown, CAGR), and persistence. He was also responsible for exposing it through a robust ExperimentRunner that the controller invokes each generation. He standardized data loaders and seed registries, instrumented comprehensive logging/telemetry, and added guardrails for order/position lifecycle compliance so mutated strategies remain executable under the Nautilus Trader model. He connected MAP-Elites archives in the ProgramDatabase to selection/mutation decisions, ensuring quality-diversity pressure is applied over risk, activity, and complexity niches. He also delivered streamlined CLIs and a lightweight UI for live monitoring, making the system reproducible, observable, and production-ready for automated discovery of high-performing strategies across diverse market regimes.
I am a 4th year Mechatronics Engineering student at McMaster University with a strong foundation in robotics, automation, and machine learning. I am passionate about human-robot interaction because of its unique application of ML to understand intent and enable adaptive, collaborative robots. I just wrapped up an internship at unicorn startup Ayar Labs, where I was implementing anomaly detection algorithms for computer hardware. Now, as a researcher in McMaster’s ICE Lab, I work on computer vision and deep learning applications for reverse engineering integrated circuits.
Robotics, ML, Automation
Neural IK solver for a 3-link robot arm with encoded joint states and continuity constraints, all connected to an LLM-to-SVG pipeline for trajectory generation.