Rey Riel is a Senior Developer Advocate and AI-savvy engineer based in Ottawa with 10 years of experience building developer-facing products, technical communities, and AI-driven integrations. He has blended hands-on roles—from building developer tooling and training programs at Solace and Qlik to leading generative AI efforts and RAG architectures at 8base—while founding Flamebaud Consulting to advise and speak on developer adoption. Comfortable across the stack, Rey specializes in prompt engineering, multi-LLM orchestration, vector embeddings and function calling, translating complex AI infrastructure into practical solutions for teams. His background in customer training and developer advocacy gives him a rare combination of empathy for users and deep technical fluency, enabling him to both evangelize platforms and prototype production-ready systems.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science DEC, Computer Science, Computer Science DEC, Computer Science at Heritage College
Qlik deCODE Hackathon 2017 - Visualize the commitments that various countries made in accordance to the United Nations SDG 14 #saveourocean movement.
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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