Evan Sinukoff is a Principal AI Engineer with a decade of experience building pragmatic, production-grade AI systems, currently leading GenAI and agentic AI efforts at ZeroStone. He blends rigorous evaluation and risk management with hands-on engineering to deliver customer-facing solutions that scale in the real world. Prior to ZeroStone he spent eight years at Canadian Tire’s Innovation Lab, where he not only built data-driven products but also co-founded an AI Community of Practice that grew to hundreds of employees. Trained as an exoplanet hunter with a PhD in Astronomy from the University of Hawaii and time at Caltech and NASA, Evan brings a researcher's rigor to applied ML—designing experiments, simulation-driven strategies, and robust observability into deployed models. Based in Toronto, he’s known for translating complex scientific methods into practical engineering patterns that improve long-term model quality.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Physics at McMaster University
California Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astronomy, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Astronomy at University of Hawaii at Manoa
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