Add skills profile for Shonna Smith

applicants/Antarr-Byrd.md

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+# Antarr Byrd — Skills Profile
+
+---
+
+## Name / Handle
+[Antarr Byrd](https://antarr.dev), [https://github.com](@antarr)
+
+---
+
+## Core Identity
+- Full-stack web and enterprise applications developer passionate about backend development and devops, especially automation and APIs.
+- A polyglot, with  expertise in Ruby on Rails, Crystal, .NET.
+- A huge fan of opensource applications
+
+---
+
+## What You're Good At
+Your strongest skills — technical or not. Be specific.
+
+- Full stack web development in Ruby on Rails.
+- Software infrastructure, whether its self hosted or in the cloud
+- Making mistakes and learning from them
+
+---
+
+## How You Use AI Right Now
+Not what you've heard about, what you actually use. Tools, models, workflows, things you've built or shipped.
+
+- Claude Code Cli
+- Gemini
+- Automate code review using Ollama Cloud models
+
+---
+
+## Current or Recent Projects
+What are you working on or what have you shipped? Links welcome.
+
+- [WevoteProject](https://wevoteproject.com)
+- [MySQLGenius](https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/1sgsl22/mysqlgenius_020_release/)
+- [Withing.net](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Withings.NET/4.0.1)
+- [vs-sidekiq](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=antarrb.sidekiq-manager)
+- [Crystal Text Splitter](wevote-project/crystal-text-splitter)
+- [Ruby Roost](https://rubyroost.dev)
+
+---
+
+## What You Want to Build Here
+To build tools for automation, making work easier.
+
+---
+
+## Superpower
+Translating other peoples visions into real products. Sometimes my own.

applicants/Atalia-Young.md

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+# Atalia S. Young — Skills Profile
+
+---
+
+## Name / Handle
+Atalia S. Young  
+GitHub: AUsymplus0326  
+
+---
+
+## Core Identity
+Enterprise product and delivery leader specializing in HR systems, now building and implementing AI-powered solutions for real-world environments.
+
+I design structured systems that move from idea → deployment → adoption.
+
+---
+
+## What You're Good At
+
+- Leading end-to-end delivery of enterprise systems (80K+ users, federal HRIT platforms)  
+- Translating ambiguous problems into structured, buildable solutions  
+- AI solution design for real-world use (operations, HR, behavior systems)  
+- Driving execution across engineering, vendors, and stakeholders  
+- Turning concepts into production-ready workflows and products  
+
+---
+
+## How You Use AI Right Now
+
+- Designing and building **AuSYM+ AI**, a platform focused on routines, executive functioning, and caregiver ecosystems  
+- Creating AI-assisted product architectures (onboarding logic, role-based access, insight generation)  
+- Using AI to accelerate:
+  - Product design + UX flows  
+  - System architecture decisions  
+  - Content + tool generation at scale  
+- Building structured tools powered by AI (routine systems, behavioral supports, decision frameworks)  
+- Using AI as a **delivery accelerator**, not just exploration  
+
+---
+
+## Current or Recent Projects
+
+- **AuSYM+ AI (Founder / Product Lead)**  
+  AI-powered platform supporting neurodiverse children and their support systems  
+  → Focus: routines, executive functioning, caregiver collaboration  
+
+- **ASYM+ (Fractional Practice)**  
+  Enterprise HR systems product leadership  
+  → Modernization, platform ownership, delivery execution  
+
+- **Executive Functioning System (Book + Toolkit)**  
+  Parent + child framework designed for real-life usability (KDP + digital tools)  
+
+- **Village Exchange Network (MVP)**  
+  Community-based platform for resource sharing and support coordination  
+
+---
+
+## What You Want to Build Here
+
+I’m interested in contributing as a **delivery lead / product lead** on real AI engagements.
+
+Specifically:
+- Leading implementation from problem definition → deployed solution  
+- Structuring AI systems that integrate into existing workflows (not sit on the side)  
+- Building repeatable frameworks for AI adoption across organizations  
+
+I’m focused on **execution, usability, and outcomes** — not just prototypes.
+
+---
+
+## Superpower
+
+I take complex, messy environments and turn them into structured systems that can actually be implemented, scaled, and used.
+
+---
+

applicants/Christopher-Thom.md

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+# [Christopher Thompson] — Skills Profile
+
+---
+
+## Name / Handle
+Your name, GitHub handle, or both.
+
+Christopher Thompson / [chris](https://github.com/chris745820)
+
+---
+
+## Core Identity
+
+Senior Software Engineer focused on AI-driven integrations and warehouse-native B2B SaaS.
+I connect data warehouses, CRMs, and third-party APIs into reliable products and ship multi-agent AI features end to end
+
+---
+
+## What You're Good At
+
+- Designing and owning reverse ETL and sync engines that move data between Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift and CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot with strong SLAs.
+- Building multi-agent AI services, RAG layers, and AI copilots that sit on top of warehouse and product data to power sales and marketing workflows.
+- Implementing robust backend services in Python, Java, and Node.js with clear data models, idempotent jobs, and resilient retry strategies.
+- Shipping full-stack features with React/Next.js, React Native, and TypeScript, including AI-assisted configuration and client-facing portals.
+- Hardening systems for production with AWS/GCP, infrastructure as code, SOC 2–aligned security, and strong observability.
+
+---
+
+## How You Use AI Right Now
+
+- Build and ship multi-agent services that orchestrate GPT, Claude, Mistral, and Gemini to automate audience building, trait generation, and sync configuration.
+- Design RAG layers over Snowflake and PostgreSQL that join product usage, marketing, and CRM data for low-latency AI copilots in web apps and CRM side panels.
+- Use LangChain, LangGraph, embeddings, and vector DBs (Pinecone, FAISS) to power semantic field matching, configuration suggestions, and integration health surfacing.
+- Add AI-assisted workflows into existing products, like sync setup copilots and mapping assistants, to reduce onboarding time and configuration friction.
+- Apply AI-powered anomaly detection on observability data to catch pipeline issues before they impact customers.
+
+---
+
+## Current or Recent Projects
+
+- What are you working on or what have you shipped? Links welcome.
+- Multi-agent AI services at Hightouch that automate activation workflows and suggestions over warehouse and CRM data.
+- A scalable RAG and insights layer that powers AI copilots inside the Hightouch UI and CRM extensions for Salesforce and HubSpot.
+- Unified connector and reverse ETL APIs at Supaglue for CRM, marketing, and warehouse platforms with AI-assisted mapping and configuration.
+- A full-stack AI-powered video generation platform at FuseBase for real estate agents, serving thousands of users with sub-second responses.
+- Infrastructure-as-code stacks (AWS CDK/Terraform) for connector and activation services with secure networking, observability, and safe deploys.
+
+---
+
+## What You Want to Build Here
+
+#### I want to own end-to-end full stack engineering and data models, AI orchestrations, also integrations with other services or UI, etc on robust architecture
+---
+
+## Superpower
+
+Turning complex data and AI infrastructure into clear, reliable product surfaces that GTM and customer teams can trust and use immediately.

applicants/Clivia-Neptune.md

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+# Clivia Neptune — Skills Profile
+
+## Name / Handle
+
+Clivia Neptune / LivNep
+
+## Core Identity
+
+Implementation & Operations Manager with 8+ years leading enterprise B2B 
+onboarding across fintech, healthcare, and SaaS. I take complex client 
+implementations from contract to go-live — managing integrations, timelines, 
+risk, and cross-functional teams — and build the systems that make it 
+repeatable at scale.
+
+## What You're Good At
+
+- Managing end-to-end client implementations including requirements gathering, 
+  API/payroll integrations, UAT, and post-launch stabilization
+- Running concurrent enterprise onboardings (up to 10,000 lives) while 
+  maintaining data integrity and regulatory compliance
+- Designing and standardizing implementation documentation, frameworks, and 
+  workflows that scale
+- Cross-functional stakeholder management across Engineering, Product, Finance, 
+  Sales, and Customer Success
+- Building executive-level reporting, RAID logs, risk mitigation plans, and 
+  delivery tracking dashboards
+
+## How You Use AI Right Now
+
+- Using Claude to draft and refine client-facing documentation, project plans, 
+  and implementation frameworks faster
+- Automating repetitive reporting and status update workflows
+- Learning to build AI-assisted onboarding tools that reduce manual 
+  configuration and client friction
+- Using AI to research and apply best practices in implementation ops and 
+  process design
+
+## Current or Recent Projects
+
+- Leading AP/AR digital payment platform implementations at Viewpost — 
+  managing full SDLC from discovery through production deployment
+- Previously managed HSA/FSA/COBRA/HRA employer group implementations at 
+  Voya Financial serving up to 10,000 lives per group
+
+## What You Want to Build Here
+
+AI-powered implementation and operations tools — smarter onboarding workflows, 
+automated documentation, and client delivery systems that reduce time-to-value 
+and scale without adding headcount.
+
+## Superpower
+
+Turning messy, high-stakes enterprise onboarding into clean, repeatable 
+processes that clients trust and teams can actually execute.

applicants/Herman-Haggerty.md

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+# Herman Haggerty — Skills Profile
+
+## Name / Handle
+Herman Haggerty · [@dubh3124](https://github.com/dubh3124) · [CognicellAI](https://github.com/CognicellAI)
+
+---
+
+## Core Identity
+Principal-level AI Infrastructure Engineer. I build the platforms and guardrails that let teams safely run LLM-powered workflows in production. Currently leading AI infra at scale; founder of CognicellAI.
+
+---
+
+## What You're Good At
+- AI infrastructure and MLOps — platform design, model deployment, MCP integrations
+- Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, observability, compliance automation (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
+- FinOps and cost optimization
+- Building from zero — teams, standards, platforms, open-source projects
+
+---
+
+## How You Use AI Right Now
+- Architecting Kubernetes-based internal AI platforms with custom tooling and MCP-style integrations
+- Building CognicellAI open-source org — [Cognition](https://github.com/CognicellAI/Cognition) (production AI agent backend with sandboxed execution, durable sessions, full observability), [Cognition-Gateway](https://github.com/CognicellAI/Cognition-Gateway) (detached frontend/control plane for agent workflows)
+- Claude, OpenAI APIs, and LLM tooling in daily production workflows
+
+---
+
+## Current or Recent Projects
+- **[Cognition](https://github.com/CognicellAI/Cognition)** — Open-source, batteries-included backend for production AI agent platforms. 7-layer architecture: sandboxed execution, durable session state, multi-tenant scoping, OTel/MLflow/Prometheus observability, REST API + SSE streaming.
+- **[Cognition-Gateway](https://github.com/CognicellAI/Cognition-Gateway)** — Detached frontend and control plane for Cognition agent workflows.
+
+---
+
+## What You Want to Build Here
+Ship AI-native infrastructure and agent tooling that real teams deploy. I want to build production-grade AI systems — not demos.
+
+---
+
+## Superpower
+Taking AI from prototype to production-grade infrastructure and making it stick.

applicants/Israel-Igietsemhe.md

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+# Israel Igietsemhe — Skills Profile
+
+---
+
+## Name / Handle
+
+**Israel Igietsemhe** — GitHub: [Aloagbaye](https://github.com/Aloagbaye) — Portfolio: [aloagbaye.github.io](https://aloagbaye.github.io)
+
+---
+
+## Core Identity
+
+Senior Data Scientist and AI/ML engineer with 10+ years building production systems for enterprise clients. Founder of Soel Technologies Inc. — an AI/ML consulting company. PhD candidate at the University of Toronto researching game options pricing via Mellin transforms. I operate at the intersection of applied ML engineering, supply chain analytics, rigorous mathematical finance, and AI education.
+
+---
+
+## What You're Good At
+
+- **Production ML systems** — demand forecasting, ensemble diagnostics, hierarchical pooling, NPI modelling; shipped for Nestlé Canada, Unilever Canada, Loblaw, KetteQ, UNICEF-sponsored Afrilearn
+- **Mathematical finance** — game/Israeli options theory, Mellin transform frameworks, free-boundary PDE analysis, stochastic optimal stopping; extended Panini's framework to perpetual game options as original doctoral research
+- **AI engineering** — RAG pipelines, multi-agent systems, LLM-powered applications (Streamlit, FastAPI, FAISS, BGE embeddings)
+- **Curriculum and programme design** — former university lecturer (UNIBEN, Production Engineering); designed structured 90-day cohort programmes for analyst-to-AI career transitions
+- **Systems thinking** — translating ambiguous, high-complexity problems into modular, executable architectures — research pipelines, business programmes, productivity systems
+
+---
+
+## How You Use AI Right Now
+
+- **Claude daily** — code architecture, dissertation research (literature synthesis, proof scaffolding, LaTeX drafting), business writing, content generation
+- **AI-powered apps** — LinkedIn lead generation agent (Streamlit + SQLite + HubSpot CRM push), healthcare RAG system (PubMedQA/MedQA, FAISS, BGE), ecommerce recommender system
+- **Prompt engineering at depth** — structured system prompts, chain-of-thought scaffolding, XML-tagged outputs, API-level orchestration
+- **Notion + AI** — comprehensive productivity infrastructure: 12-Week Year system, Financial Command Center, dissertation tracking — all AI-assisted design and maintenance
+
+---
+
+## Current or Recent Projects
+
+- **Agentic Clinical Assistant** ([GitHub](https://github.com/Aloagbaye/agentic-clinical-assistant)) — production-ready, regulated-domain-safe agentic RAG system; multi-agent orchestration for clinical operations guidance with strict safety, grounding, and auditability requirements; built for healthcare AI compliance constraints
+- **Afrilearn — UNICEF-Sponsored Recommender System** ([GitHub](https://github.com/UNICEF-AFRILEARN)) — part of a $100K UNICEF-funded project to make education accessible to indigent students across Africa; deployed an association rule mining recommender on an e-learning platform; integrated OpenAI ChatGPT for multiple-choice question generation in quiz games
+- **KetteQ Supply Chain Forecasting** — lead data scientist on production ML forecasting models for KetteQ's demand and operations planning SaaS platform; ongoing work includes ensemble model diagnostics and applying foundation models in forecasting, Docker optimization, forecasting RMAPE/WAPE analysis, and hierarchical pooling
+- **PhD Dissertation — University of Toronto** — five-paper research arc extending Mellin transform frameworks to game/Israeli options pricing
+
+---
+
+## What You Want to Build Here
+
+I want to build systems that make meaningful impact in production — across healthcare, education, and supply chain analytics. That's the through-line in everything I've shipped, and it's what I want to keep doing here.
+
+---
+
+## Superpower
+
+Systems thinker with a rare blend of mathematical depth and production AI engineering, able to move seamlessly from theory to deployment with rigor and clarity.

applicants/Janay-Carpenter.MD

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+Name / Handle
+Janay Carpenter — @drjcarpenter
+Core Identity
+Portfolio manager and organizational strategist who builds AI-powered workforce intelligence systems. Also a professor, entrepreneur, and Claude Partner who turns complex institutional problems into structured, scalable tools.
+What You're Good At
+
+Workforce planning, FTE modeling, and resource allocation strategy
+Building AI-powered internal tools that non-technical teams actually use
+Translating ambiguous organizational problems into clear systems and frameworks
+Curriculum design and AI literacy program development
+Leading cross-functional projects from concept to implementation
+
+How You Use AI Right Now
+
+Built Hall Pass, a Claude-powered AI assistant for workforce intelligence at Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago
+Developed Allocation Health Reporting workflows and Power BI dashboards using AI-assisted analysis
+Use Claude daily for portfolio management, content strategy, and building operational tools
+Actively building AI literacy frameworks for higher education contexts
+
+Current or Recent Projects
+
+Hall Pass AI Assistant — internal Claude-powered tool for staff allocation and FTE planning
+Skills Matrix Tool — workforce capability mapping tool built for FY27 planning cycle
+Amali — AI-assisted activewear brand development (product, copy, brand identity)
+Slow. Still. Surrender. — wellness workbook written and launched with AI-supported workflow
+
+What You Want to Build Here
+I want to contribute to AI literacy programs that actually reach people — especially in institutional, education, and workforce contexts where AI adoption is slow not because people aren't capable, but because no one has built the on-ramp yet. I also want to be in rooms where AI-native products are being built from the ground up.
+Superpower
+Turning organizational complexity into tools people actually use — then teaching others how to do the same.