LawsonTaylor

Building AI-powered integrations with major advertising platforms on the Ad Publishing and Insights team.
-​ Developing AI-powered ad publishing and insights features using TypeScript, React within Canva's modern stack, integrating with major ad platforms to automate campaign workflows.
-​ Owned feature rollout while shipping at scale on a platform serving tens of millions of users within a high-autonomy engineering culture.

Hired for technical leadership to stabilise an AI transcription product used by thousands of MAU processing ~9,000 hours of audio per hour.
-​ Reduced web application memory consumption from 800MB+ to <100MB in my first month by diagnosing memory leaks and fixing structural issues.
-​ Refactored the core audio recording and transcription pipeline, reducing unrecoverable data-loss errors from >10% to <0.4% — critical for a healthcare product where data integrity is non-negotiable.

-​ Built a white-label AI chatbot platform enabling enterprise clients to deploy custom Telegram bots with their own API infrastructure, architecting the full product from database to deployment.
-​ Designed agentic AI systems with semantic routing for multi-modal data processing, improving accuracy by 40% over single-model approaches.
-​ Architected scalable serverless infrastructure supporting unlimited bot instances per user with automatic resource scaling and sub-second response times.
-​ Engineered novel UX patterns using BullMQ (Redis) for throttle control on chat input, combined with typing indicators and abort controllers for natural-feeling AI interactions.