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Edge AI & Automotive Intelligence Engineer

Robert Sloan

I build real-time AI systems that bridge software and hardware — from voice-driven vehicle diagnostics to edge computer vision on NVIDIA Jetson.

AI Systems Engineer and former ASE-certified automotive technician. I ship end-to-end products across the full stack: realtime voice agents and LLM tool-calling, OBD-II / CAN / UDS telemetry pipelines, and computer-vision models running on embedded edge hardware.

What I work with

AI / ML

  • OpenAI Agents SDK
  • LangChain / LangGraph
  • RAG & embeddings
  • TensorFlow / TF.js
  • OpenCV
  • Computer Vision

Edge & Embedded

  • NVIDIA Jetson Nano
  • CUDA
  • Real-time inference
  • Linux

Automotive

  • OBD-II
  • CAN bus
  • UDS
  • ISO-TP
  • Vehicle telemetry

Full-stack

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Next.js
  • Electron
  • Python / Flask

Data & Infra

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Docker
  • AWS / GCP
  • Prometheus / Grafana

Featured projects

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Machine Learning Engineer2024

Custom CNN Training — SVHN Digit Recognition

A deep-learning image-classification project: custom-built and trained neural networks that recognize street-view house numbers, with a full preprocessing → training → evaluation pipeline.

  • TensorFlow
  • Keras
  • Python
  • NumPy
  • Pandas
  • scikit-learn
T.A.R.S — Voice-Driven AI Vehicle Diagnostics
Founder & AI Systems Engineer2024 – Present

T.A.R.S — Voice-Driven AI Vehicle Diagnostics

A hands-free AI co-pilot for automotive diagnostics: a realtime voice agent reads a vehicle over OBD-II / CAN / UDS, narrates findings, and drives live diagnostics on screen.

  • OpenAI Realtime API
  • Agents SDK
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Electron
  • Python
NVIDIA Jetson Nano ADAS & Edge Vision
Edge AI & Computer Vision Engineer

NVIDIA Jetson Nano ADAS & Edge Vision

A custom edge-AI ADAS platform on NVIDIA Jetson Nano — multi-camera lane detection, object tracking, and roadway mapping with real-time inference on embedded hardware.

  • NVIDIA Jetson Nano
  • CUDA
  • TensorFlow
  • OpenCV
  • Python
  • Linux
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Full-stack Developer & ML Engineer2024

Runes ML Forecasting Pipeline

A multi-container, full-stack ML platform that collects, forecasts, and visualizes cryptocurrency ("Runes") market data — a custom-trained LSTM served through Dockerized microservices with a real-time React dashboard.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • LSTM / TensorFlow
  • Node.js
  • React
  • PostgreSQL
GAPScore — AI Green-Energy Property Scanner
Full-stack Developer & AI Engineer2024 – Present

GAPScore — AI Green-Energy Property Scanner

A web app that scores a property's green-energy potential from photos: upload images, an AI vision model reviews them and scores six GAPScore categories, and a chat assistant explains the results and next steps.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Computer Vision
  • LLM chat
  • Image Analysis
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AI Systems Engineer2024 – Present

LLM Agents & AI Integrations

Agentic AI wired into real workflows — OpenAI Agents SDK tool-calling, LangChain / LangGraph orchestration, and RAG memory over live data streams.

  • OpenAI Agents SDK
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • RAG
  • Vector embeddings
  • TypeScript

Highlights

Voice-driven component highlighting

Voice-driven component highlighting

"Highlight the oxygen sensors" focuses T.A.R.S's 3D vehicle digital twin on the upstream O2 sensor (Bank 1) in the live HUD.

Digital-twin system focus

Digital-twin system focus

"Highlight the EVAP canister" lights up the fuel / EVAP system on the vehicle digital clone — driven entirely by voice.

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