# Tyler D'Silva

> Founding AI Engineer at Retell AI | Founder at SFU Blueprint

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tylerdsilva

## Work Experience
### Founding Forward Deployed AI Engineer @ Retell AI
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Retell AI (retellai.com) is the Voice AI Agent Builder. Backed by Alt Capital and partnered with OpenAI. We are one of the leanest startups in the world: https://leanaileaderboard.com/

### Founder @ SFU Blueprint
Jan 2023 – Present | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Blueprint partners with non-profits to provide technology services such as websites, mobile applications, analysis tools—pro bono. Currently leading 40+ people and helping 3+ non-profits!

### Founding AI Backend Engineer @ SafetyKit
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Deployed AI agents to automate risk reviews, onboarding, and investigations. Trusted by leading marketplaces and fintech platforms.

### AI Engineer @ OneCup AI
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Developed the first dynamic synthetic data generation pipelines to improve cow lameness detection using keypoint estimation, NeRFs, Unreal Engine, and C++

### Deep Learning Research Assistant @ Simon Fraser University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Improved a novel multimodal navigation framework for Human Navigational Intent Inference by applying a Social GAN to predict high-level actions of human motion 2 seconds in the future using SFU-Nav-Store and PyTorch

### Autonomous Vehicle Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Worked with Dr. Krzysztof Czarnecki to conduct experiments, model training, and analysis on camera-radar fusion research to recommend a solution for the Waterloo Autonomoose

### Software Engineer @ Splunk
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Backend engineer on the Splunk Security Analytics team, spearheading the Horizontal Pod Autoscaling of the microservices. Worked with Kubernetes, Prometheus, Prometheus collector, and Grafana.

### Deep Learning Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Working with Professor John Zelek to investigate applying the Neural Operator to solve the Laplace equation to obtain the harmonic solutions that will be used for path planning. Worked with Python, C++, CUDA, and ROS.

### Software Developer @ ruby
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Java developer on the marketing email notification team, designing, developing, and deploying a microservice for recording email marketing campaign metrics, integrating two microservices with multiple DBs to update dashboards. Worked with Spring Integration, Spring Batch Integration, Kafka Producer, and Kafka Consumer APIs.

### Software Developer @ ruby
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Java developer on the e-commerce and R&D team, creating REST endpoints for enterprise scalability and architecting business rule management system prototypes. Worked with Java, Spring Boot, Neo4j, Flowable, SQL, Spock, JUnit, Groovy, and Jenkins.

### Software Developer @ Infor
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Toronto, Canada Area
Full stack developer on the Workforce Management team, implementing rules to monitor system configurations, refactored copy-paste shift flow, creating the audit logging flow, and testing features extensively. Worked with Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, Drools, AWS Key Management Service, Cucumber, JUnit, Jenkins, SVN, WebLogic, Wildfly, and WebSphere.

### Full Stack Developer @ GroupBy Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area
Full stack developer on the presales team, implementing the redesigned architecture across 4 demo websites to present to clients, creating scripts for web scraping and populating the analytics dashboard. Worked with Riot.js and Node.js.

### Junior Software Developer @ SOTI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mississauga, Canada
Frontend developer on the SOTI Insight team developing UI/UX features while leading the SCSS styling for the project to create the dashboard and configurations. Worked with Angular5, TypeScript, and Bulma.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc in Systems Design Engineering with AI and Computing Option
University of Waterloo

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science with concentration in Big Data/Machine Learning
Simon Fraser University

### OSSD in Student
St. Michael's College School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tylerdsilva

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Last updated: 2026-03-29