David R. “Dave” Rintoul, CISSP, CSPO

AI Solutions Architect • B.A.Sc. Computer Engineering (Waterloo)
Product · AI · Governance · Strategy
Personal Journey View Resume (PDF)

AI Systems & Agentic Architectures

Voyages By Dave: A suite of AI-powered travel planning tools that helps savvy travelers research more comprehensively than a Google or ChatGPT search. It brings together real-time weather, travel advisories, local festivals and events, destination context, and vendor-specific knowledge into one intelligent planning experience.

MCP & LangGraph Workflows: Build agentic pipelines that pull live data from multiple sources, so LLM answers are grounded in real information instead of invented context.

RAG
Semantic Search

Turn scattered documents into attributable answers. This self-hosted RAG stack scrapes, chunks, embeds, and reranks content so you can query a private knowledge base and get curated responses with numbered, verified sources.

Live Demo: Query the demo knowledge base in plain language and get curated, attributed answers with numbered sources.

Open source repo: FastAPI backend, admin UI, query UI, and Docker Compose setup, including a security and threat model discussion.

Is It Canadian?
Demo

An evidence-driven checker that vets whether a company is Canadian. An agentic LangGraph workflow finds the official site, scrapes corporate pages, and a local Ollama model classifies strictly from collected evidence, with results streaming to a React UI in real time.

Live Demo: Enter a company name or URL and watch the evidence stream in.

Open Source Repo: Built with FastAPI, LangGraph, React, SearXNG, Firecrawl, and Ollama. Features deterministic validation — every cited quote is verified against scraped content, so no evidence, no verdict.

High-Stakes Governance & Safety

Operational Leadership: Directed compliance and risk management in clinical healthcare and commercial diving—environments where a missed check has immediate consequences. That zero-fail discipline now informs how I build AI governance that works under pressure.

AI Security Translation: Turn operational discipline into practical AI guardrails—governance that keeps systems secure and useful without slowing delivery or hiding risk.

Open Source Repo: A Python audit tool that traces Tableau calculated fields back to database columns, so engineers can refactor schemas without breaking dependent dashboards and reports.

Global Alliances & Revenue Scaling

Microsoft: Restructured the partner program around a depth-and-breadth model, concentrating engineering and field investment on strategic partners while maintaining broad ecosystem coverage. Contributed $5 million in annual incremental revenue, and worked across engineering, licensing, and legal teams to craft custom OEM agreements for embedded telecommunications products.

Siemens: Equipped global sales teams to drive incremental Microsoft software revenue, and reduced R&D costs by 66% by consolidating OS/2, UNIX, and Windows telephony platforms into a single platform while preserving required customer functionality.

Technical Stack & Core Competencies

Python / FastAPI LangGraph Model Context Protocol (MCP) Ollama & Local LLMs Docker & Containerization Linux & Self-Hosted Infrastructure CISSP Security Governance Cloud Security Data Governance & Compliance CAIP (Certified AI Practitioner) Qdrant / Neo4j / MongoDB CI/CD Automation CSPO (Scrum Alliance) CDMP (Data Management Professional) AWS Certified AI Practitioner Business Intelligence & Analytics Tableau & Alteryx (Certified / Advanced) Risk Management & Operations Executive Education: Wharton · IBM · MIT