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I'm Michael Stewart, a software architect based in Sydney, Australia, with a track record of building scalable AI-powered systems. I previously lived in Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA, and I've led initiatives that integrated neuro-symbolic AI with evolutionary algorithms to optimize real-world content generation for major tech companies like Google and Microsoft. These days I'm passionate about the decentralized messaging protocol Nostr, and I've built a social media client handling hundreds of thousands of users. My Nostr writings are taught at the University of Texas at Austin.…I'm Michael Stewart, a software architect based in Sydney, Australia, with a track record of building scalable AI-powered systems. I previously lived in Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA, and I've led initiatives that integrated neuro-symbolic AI with evolutionary algorithms to optimize real-world content generation for major tech companies like Google and Microsoft. These days I'm passionate about the decentralized messaging protocol Nostr, and I've built a social media client handling hundreds of thousands of users. My Nostr writings are taught at the University of Texas at Austin.

Michael Stewart

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I'm Michael Stewart, a software architect based in Sydney, Australia, with a track record of building scalable AI-powered systems. I previously lived in Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA, and I've led initiatives that integrated neuro-symbolic AI with evolutionary algorithms to optimize real-world content generation for major tech companies like Google and Microsoft. These days I'm passionate about the decentralized messaging protocol Nostr, and I've built a social media client handling hundreds of thousands of users. My Nostr writings are taught at the University of Texas at Austin.…I'm Michael Stewart, a software architect based in Sydney, Australia, with a track record of building scalable AI-powered systems. I previously lived in Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA, and I've led initiatives that integrated neuro-symbolic AI with evolutionary algorithms to optimize real-world content generation for major tech companies like Google and Microsoft. These days I'm passionate about the decentralized messaging protocol Nostr, and I've built a social media client handling hundreds of thousands of users. My Nostr writings are taught at the University of Texas at Austin.

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I’m Michael Stewart, a software architect based in Sydney, Australia, with a track record of building scalable AI-powered systems. I previously lived in Austin, TX and San Francisco, CA, and I’ve led initiatives that integrated neuro-symbolic AI with evolutionary algorithms to optimize real-world content generation for major tech companies like Google and Microsoft.

These days I’m passionate about the decentralized messaging protocol Nostr, and I’ve built a social media client handling hundreds of thousands of users. My Nostr writings are taught at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Technical Lead at Hello Coach

March 1, 2024 - October 26, 2025

Introduced an agile workflow to the team; R&D using AI & ML to improve coach searching functionality using a classification algorithm on top of a large language model for natural language processing of search queries; Drastically improved infrastructure, process and team morale to enable the product/engineering team to deliver consistently to the business; Cut AWS infrastructure costs by more than half; Developed and deployed an in-platform integration with Zoom video, improving user experience as well as reducing operational expenses from $4,000 to less than $100.

Software Architect at Revy AI

March 1, 2023 - October 26, 2025

Designed and built a full CI/CD pipeline for a front-end application, API and batch processing system using AWS CodePipeline and CDK; Worked with cutting-edge NLP technology (GPT-3 and open-source solutions); Developed integrations with Google (Gmail), Stripe and other third-party APIs; Product design and management; Research and implementation of accompanying LLM frameworks; Improved infrastructure and deployment processes.

Software Architect at AdLabs Technology Inc.

September 1, 2022 - October 26, 2025

Invented, designed and implemented a novel, holistic AI system with a patent-pending that automatically produced thousands of ads in minutes for Google and Microsoft; Long-standing deals with large enterprise advertisers; Led offshore engineering team (5-10 engineers in India); Created a framework for integrating data science tools into existing workflows; Migrated to new infrastructure tools to achieve >100x scale and reduced AWS costs from >$50k to ~$10k; Upgraded web framework to latest version with zero downtime; Built a distributed, queue-based framework using RMQ and .NET Core for concurrent order placement.

Principal Software Engineer at MotiveMetrics

February 1, 2022 - October 26, 2025

Created a technical design for a new application using AWS managed services; Migrated to latest AWS managed services to enable scale; R&D into content generation using AI, including large language models; Worked with customer accounts on Google Ads and Microsoft Advertising with massive data volumes.

Software Architect / Software Engineer at Boost Media

April 1, 2019 - October 26, 2025

Generated billions of advertising dollars for the largest enterprise advertisers via a network of thousands of copywriters; Worked on frontend, API, data and job processing; Led cross-functional development to drive performance and scale.