Summary
Mahimai J is a founding engineer and freelance AI developer based in Waterloo, Canada, with ~5 years of hands-on experience shipping 100+ production AI projects for SMBs, agencies, and SaaS customers. She specializes in robust, production-grade conversational and document AI—voice agents, WhatsApp/web chatbots with RAG, and OCR pipelines—that prioritize durability over experimental demos. Her work emphasizes engineering best practices (Docker, CI/CD, monitoring) and measurable impact, from cutting missed calls by 73% to running systems with 1M+ monthly API requests. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript and FastAPI, she has repeatedly optimized latency and scaled complex integrations on Azure for high-compliance environments. Beyond shipping features, she focuses on building reusable, maintainable architectures that turn experimental models into reliable business automation.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Ontario Post Graduate Certificate, Full Stack Software Development, 3.9, Ontario Post Graduate Certificate, Full Stack Software Development, 3.9 at Lambton College
English, French