Rey Riel
Senior Developer Advocate
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRey 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
Github Skills (79)
qlik-sense10
cypress-plugin9
build-automation9
dockerfile9
angular8
api8
javascript8
umbrella8
agentic8
gatsbyjs8
macros8
font-awesome8
build-system8
cicd8
makefile8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
QlikHackathon/decode-oct-2017
Oct 2017 - Mar 2021
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
sdgunited-nationssdg-14visualizedecode
truvhq/quickstart
Dec 2020 - Jul 2021
Get up and running with Truv Bridge and the API in minutes
Contributions:25 reviews, 110 commits, 46 PRs in 6 months
apibridgeminutes
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