Colin Toal
Principal BD AI ML Startups AWS at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolColin Toal is a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience delivering enterprise-grade software and a decade in senior leadership roles across AI/ML, cloud, and customer-facing platforms. Currently Principal BD for AI/ML Startups at AWS, he blends technical depth with go-to-market strategy to help startups adopt scalable cloud and ML solutions. Previously as CTO of Chisel AI he led development of a production NLP platform that reads and extracts complex insurance documents, demonstrating practical expertise in applied machine learning and productizing research. His background includes engineering leadership at IBM Watson, Amazon, Oracle and early CRM and insurance systems, giving him a rare combination of product, platform and industry domain knowledge. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs pragmatic engineering judgment with a builder’s mindset—“Coder. Never 51.”—and a track record of growing teams that can ship hard, reliable systems.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Computing and Communications, Bachelor of Arts, Computing and Communications at Wilfrid Laurier University
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Github Skills (53)
cpp10
llm-inference9
machine-learning8
pre-trained-model7
autocomplete7
foundation-models6
nlp6
natural-language-processing6
language-modeling6
databases6
large-scale6
transformer-architecture5
react5
language-understanding5
certificate-authority5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
integrateai/python-kadmin
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
Python module for kerberos admin (kadm5)
Contributions:10 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
python-modulekerberospythonadmin
marcelstoer/nodemcu-custom-build
Sep 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:3 commits in 5 years 3 months
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