Résumé · AI & Automation

Josh Kolasa

AI Systems & Automation Engineer

I build AI automation systems that turn messy manual processes into working software. Right now that means an after-hours voice agent answering the phone for dental clinics and a retrieval knowledge assistant for a Toronto property management company. I own the full stack on every build: retrieval and data, orchestration through n8n and Twilio, the language layer, and hand-built front ends so the result is actually usable. Working independently also meant learning the commercial side, from the lead database and cold outreach to discovery meetings, proposals, and the CRTC ADAD and DNCL rules I researched before making a single automated call. I am looking for a full-time role where I can point this at harder problems with a team around me: forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, applied AI, or technical sales.

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Selected systems

Dental After-Hours Voice Agent

Live

A real-time voice agent that answers a dental clinic’s phone after hours. It picks up on the first ring, answers routine questions, and takes bookings. Callers in pain get the clinic’s emergency instruction read back, flagged urgent. Transcripts land on a secure dashboard, built for PHIPA.

TwilioReal-time speechLLMSecure dashboardPHIPA
joshkolasa.ca/voice

Harkoda Knowledge Assistant

Client demo

A retrieval knowledge assistant for a Toronto property management company. Their operating procedures are embedded in a pgvector store, so staff can ask a question in plain English and get a grounded, sourced answer instead of a guess. Running today on ten of their live documents and built to scale to the full set.

n8nNeonDBpgvectorRAG

Real-Time Sales Assistant

Prototype

Live AI that sits quietly on a sales call, transcribes both sides as they speak, and feeds the rep their next line the moment it matters, without breaking their flow.

Real-time AISpeech-to-textLLM pipeline

Dental Clinic Automation

Earlier build

What came before the voice agent: an SMS and email reminder pipeline to cut no-shows, plus a live front-desk demo panel that fires real messages in the room. Designed around PHIPA requirements for handling patient information.

n8nTwilioGo-to-market

Outreach & Lead Warming

Own practice

Sequenced outreach and follow-up across email and SMS, paired with a Prefect-scheduled warming engine on NeonDB that gives cold leads timed, personalized touches before a rep picks up the phone. Lead database built from City of Toronto business licence data, under CRTC ADAD and DNCL rules researched before the first send.

n8nTwilioPrefectNeonDB

Kolasa Ag

Live

A commercial platform connecting Saskatchewan farmers with agricultural drone services, built around an interactive ROI calculator that shows the savings for their own acreage before the first conversation.

Web platformROI tooling
kolasaag.ca

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Experience

Aug 2024 – Present
Vaughan, ON

Independent AI & Automation Developer, Self-employed

  • Independent practice building production AI and automation systems for small and mid-sized businesses.
  • Built and launched an after-hours voice agent for dental clinics spanning telephony, real-time speech, the language layer, and a secure transcript dashboard. Handles concurrent callers, answers from the clinic’s own fact sheet, takes booking requests, and escalates pain calls with the clinic’s exact emergency script. Designed around Ontario PHIPA obligations. Packaged and priced as a productized service with a public demo line.
  • Built a retrieval knowledge assistant for a Toronto property management company on n8n, NeonDB, and pgvector, turning scattered operating procedures into something the whole team can query in plain language with sourced answers. Running on ten of their live documents, built to scale to the full corpus.
  • Built sequenced outreach and follow-up across email and SMS, paired with a Prefect-scheduled lead warming engine on NeonDB.
  • Ran full-cycle outbound solo: built the lead database from City of Toronto business licence data into NeonDB, wrote and sent personalized cold outreach, booked and ran discovery meetings, and wrote the proposals and service agreements, all under CRTC ADAD and DNCL rules researched before the first send.
  • Built Kolasa Ag, a commercial platform connecting Saskatchewan farmers with agricultural drone services, centred on an interactive ROI calculator.
Mar 2026 – May 2026
Contract

Marketing Automation & Systems Builder, Community Works

  • Came in to learn an unfamiliar stack and ship something real: a branded estimate calculator with a live pricing engine (per-story rates, debris multipliers, add-ons, tiered quotes) that outputs a structured payload for Jobber and n8n.
  • Picked up Twilio and Chatwoot here, which became the foundation for the automation services I build now.
Feb 2025 – Sep 2025
Self-directed

Independent Game Developer

  • Designed and developed a game end-to-end across systems design, scripting, and UI/UX, using AI-assisted tooling for rapid prototyping and iteration.
2022 – 2024
Vaughan, ON

Customer-Facing Service Roles

  • High-volume, fast-paced service work where I learned to read people quickly, stay accurate under pressure, and keep customers coming back.

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What I work with

AI & LLM systems
  • LLM pipelines
  • RAG
  • Agentic workflows
  • Prompt engineering
  • Model Context Protocol
Voice & telephony
  • Real-time voice agents
  • Twilio
  • Speech-to-text
  • Text-to-speech
  • Call routing
Automation & orchestration
  • n8n
  • Prefect
  • Microsoft Graph
  • Chatwoot
  • Workflow design
Data & front end
  • NeonDB
  • pgvector
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML & CSS
  • UI & graphic design
Compliance & privacy
  • PHIPA
  • PIPEDA
  • CRTC ADAD
  • DNCL
Commercial
  • Cold outreach
  • Discovery calls
  • Proposals
  • Service agreements

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Credentials

Certifications · Anthropic Academy
Building with the Claude API
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics
Education
Diploma, Advertising & Graphic Design
Opticianry Program