Philippe Turcotte

Full-stack & AI Engineer

Available for full-time software roles after May 2026

Based in Sherbrooke, QC

I build AI products, fast web apps, and systems that hold up under pressure.

I am finishing a master's degree in Artificial Intelligence while building software across product engineering, automation, and high-performance backend systems. I am looking for a team where I can ship useful things quickly and keep learning fast.

At a glance

What I bring to a team

Open to roles

Product-minded execution

I like taking ideas from rough concept to production-ready software with clear business value.

Applied AI that ships

My recent work focuses on turning LLMs, vision models, and automation pipelines into usable products.

Performance under constraints

I am comfortable optimizing latency, infrastructure, and system reliability when the margin for error is small.

$300K

net profit generated

From a Solana NFT arbitrage bot operating across $12M in trading volume.

<100ms

reaction speed

Achieved through globally distributed infrastructure, Redis, and low-level optimization.

10,000+

products synchronized

Automated supplier sync and fulfillment for a Shopify store with custom shipping logic.

4.05 / 4.3

M.Sc. GPA

Current master's degree in Artificial Intelligence at Universite de Sherbrooke.

Selected work

Recent projects with real operating constraints.

This mix includes private client work and public research-style projects. Each case study focuses on the problem, the technical approach, and the outcome rather than just a list of tools.

2023 - Present

Automated podcast clip generation

Co-founder / AI Developer, Mecene.ai

Private product

Built an AI system that transforms long podcast videos into social-ready one-minute clips without manual editing.

  • Fine-tuned ChatGPT and Gemini on a YouTube-derived dataset to improve clip selection.
  • Implemented speaker detection and auto-framing to keep the active speaker centered on screen.
  • Deployed a decentralized GPU-backed pipeline on Runpod to split processing into reliable stages.
PythonPyTorchOpenCVWhisperDockerRunpod

2024

Solana NFT arbitrage engine

Blockchain Developer, Comet.xyz

Private trading system

Designed and optimized an automated Solana arbitrage bot for extremely latency-sensitive execution.

  • Generated $300K in net profit over $12M in trading volume.
  • Reduced reaction time below 100ms with globally distributed servers in New York, Frankfurt, and Tokyo.
  • Stored hot data in Redis, tuned Linux servers, and customized Solana libraries for speed.
TypeScriptRustRedisLinuxSolana

2024 - 2025

Tax strategy web application

Freelance Full-stack Developer

Private client work

Built a web app for an accounting firm to model RRSP and TFSA contribution strategies and surface recommendations.

  • Created a recommendation algorithm based on user income and deductibles.
  • Designed an interactive flow with tables and visual result summaries for non-technical users.
  • Delivered the product with a modern web stack and hosted backend services.
Next.jsReactNode.jsExpressPostgreSQLSupabase

2025

Shopify inventory and fulfillment automation

Freelance Shopify Developer / Systems Integrator

Private client work

Delivered a Shopify store and an integration layer that kept catalog, inventory, and order fulfillment aligned with a supplier.

  • Designed and launched the storefront, including theme customization, collections, and shipping configuration.
  • Automated synchronization for more than 10,000 products using Shopify's GraphQL API and an internal database.
  • Integrated supplier data so inventory and order fulfillment could be handled with minimal manual work.
ShopifyLiquidNode.jsGraphQLPuppeteer

2026

Jane Street model reconstruction

Independent reverse-engineering project

Public research repo

Reconstructed a disassembled residual neural network from saved weight fragments and historical data, recovering the exact final permutation.

  • Recovered the full 97-piece network ordering with effectively zero reconstruction error.
  • Built a multi-heuristic pairing pipeline and solved one-to-one matching with the Hungarian algorithm.
  • Designed greedy and simulated-annealing ordering solvers, plus visual diagnostics to guide iteration.
PythonPyTorchNumPyPandasSciPyMatplotlib

2026

Jane Street Neolithic reverse engineering

Independent reverse-engineering project

Public research repo

Reverse-engineered a massive sparse integer neural network into an interpretable hash pipeline, reducing the problem to a preimage search.

  • Decompiled a 2721-layer sparse network into explicit equations and recognized its MD5-style structure.
  • Built several solver paths including symbolic analysis, SAT encoding, and hash-level validators.
  • Recovered the winning phrase and validated the model hypothesis against large randomized checks.
PythonPyTorchNumPySymPyPySATMatplotlib

2026

Exotec Snakebird AI workbench

Independent game AI and simulation project

Public experimentation repo

Built a local competitive AI sandbox for a CodinGame Snakebird challenge, with custom bot families, replay tooling, and benchmarking reports.

  • Created a local simulation and visualization workflow for iterating on multiplayer snake bots.
  • Developed A*-based planning with danger scoring, race awareness, and ally coordination ideas.
  • Added benchmark harnesses and HTML reports to compare strategies beyond simple win/loss counts.
JavaMavenTypeScriptPixi.jsC++Python

2026

ARC AGI agent workbench

Independent agent research project

Public research repo

Built a modular experimentation framework for ARC-style agents, with pluggable bots, benchmark tooling, and prediction-based evaluation.

  • Created a shared framework for running and comparing multiple agent architectures on the same tasks.
  • Added structured board and transition summaries so agents could reason over interpretable state descriptions.
  • Measured strong short-horizon prediction accuracy while documenting the gap to actual task completion.
PythonuvpytestARC toolkitrequests

Experience

A mix of startup, freelance, and performance-critical work.

My background spans AI product development, ecommerce automation, full-stack delivery, and low-latency blockchain systems.

Co-founder / AI Developer

Mecene.ai

January 2023 - Present

Leading product and technical work for an AI video clipping platform, from model behavior to deployment architecture.

Full-stack Developer / Shopify Integrator

Freelance

October 2024 - March 2025

Delivered production software for local businesses, spanning custom web applications, ecommerce, automation, and systems integration.

Blockchain Developer

Comet.xyz

January 2024 - December 2024

Built low-latency trading infrastructure on Solana with strong emphasis on execution speed and operational reliability.

Education

2024 - May 2026

Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence

Universite de Sherbrooke

GPA: 4.05 / 4.3

2018 - 2022

Bachelor's Degree in Robotics Engineering

Universite de Sherbrooke

GPA: 4.02 / 4.3

Skills

Frontend & product

Next.jsReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSShopifyGraphQL

Backend & data

Node.jsPythonExpressPostgreSQLSupabaseSQL

AI & systems

PyTorchOpenCVWhisperDockerLinuxAWSGCP

Contact

If you need someone who can move between product, AI, and backend systems, let's talk.

I am actively looking for full-time software roles and I enjoy projects where strong product thinking matters just as much as implementation quality.