Hey, I'm Oyem 👋🏾

AI Engineering Lead · Builder-manager who stays technical · Sydney, Australia

I build AI-native systems that reach production — not demos.

I operate at the intersection of hands-on engineering, AI system design, and team leadership: writing code, reviewing architecture, and partnering with product to turn ambiguous problems into shipped outcomes. 19+ years building across startups, scale-ups, and regulated enterprise environments.

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🤖 What I'm working on

• Agentic LLM workflows, RAG architectures, and AI observability (LangSmith, Weave, Datadog)
• MCP (Model Context Protocol) integrations — tools, resources, prompts, and sampling across stdio and HTTP/SSE transports
• Event-driven, cloud-native platform engineering on AWS and GCP

🛠 Tech I use regularly

AI & LLM · LangChain · OpenRouter · AWS Bedrock · Prompt versioning · RAG
Languages · Python · TypeScript · Node.js · Kotlin/JVM · React
Infra · AWS · GCP · Terraform · Kubernetes · Docker
Observability · LangSmith · Weave · Datadog

🚀 A few things I've shipped

• Drop Bio Health — Led 0→1 platform build; cut deploy time from 2 weeks to 40 minutes, moved from 8-week cycles to weekly releases
• Tempest AI — Founding AI engineer; built LLM-powered game creation platform on GCP with agentic content pipelines
• Sheda Studios — 60+ startup products built and launched (2014–2021), scaled team from 2 → 12
• Grow Inc / Bridge / Deloitte Digital — Led engineering teams of 10 → 40+ across FinTech, health, superannuation, and insurance

📦 Open source

• Azure Login for React Native — Microsoft Azure Identity integration for React Native
• React Native Media Player — open-source audio player for React Native
• matador-deploy — multi-environment Rancher deployment assistant
• Vapid for Rails — VAPID push notifications for Ruby on Rails

📫 Let's connect