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2026 — CM
Caitlin McDonald
Solutions Architecture · Ideation · Building
Montreal, QC
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01 / About
"Build things that matter."
Hi, I'm Caitlin
A solutions architect and builder based in Montreal, QC. I spend my days working at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, AI systems, and the humans who use them.
I'm drawn to problems where technical depth and real-world impactoverlap, whether that's designing agentic AI architectures, prototyping ideas late at night, or figuring out how to make something genuinely useful for people.
Outside of work: training for Ironman 70.3, skiing, and building things that probably don't need to exist but are fun to make anyway.
7×
AWS Certified
4+
Years at AWS
EN/FR
Bilingual
02 / Experience
- ·Own architecture strategy and technical direction for enterprise customers
- ·Led requirements discovery, design, and delivery of intelligent document processing and conversational AI solution ($90K ARR) — reduced field technician decision-making from 1–2 hours to minutes using RAG architecture
- ·Architected production-grade AI solution for PII detection and redaction combining computer vision (Meta SAM on SageMaker) with a multimodal foundation model (Nova Lite via Amazon Bedrock)
- ·Showcased at AWS re:Inforce 2025 and AWS re:Invent 2025 — 600+ participants, 5.0 CSAT, top 6% of global submissions; requested at 4 global AWS Summits in 2026
- ·Recognized at AWS Director level for GenAI initiative contributions — Phase 1 at $20K ARR, $99K PS SOW secured, Phase 2–4 projected $556K ARR + $213K PS
- ·Regional lead for AI Think Tank — developing reusable GenAI demo assets and establishing AI architecture patterns
- ·Lead presenter for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore immersion day (39 attendees, 4.8 CSAT, 14 opportunities created)
- ·Selected to mentor 9 interns and early-career architects; featured panelist at hackathons
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03 / Skills & Certs
Certifications
AWS Solutions Architect Professional
AWS Generative AI Developer Professional
among first 500 recipients
AWS Senior Speaker Certified
+ 4 additional AWS certifications
AI / ML
Cloud & Infrastructure
Programming
Core
04 / Projects
Things I've built & things I'm thinking about
A personal archive. Some shipped, some in motion, some still just ideas.
Personalized AI E-Cards
In ProgressPersonalUnlock your letter through a game built just for you.
AI-generated interactive e-cards that guide the recipient through a personalized mini-game based on their interests (trivia, puzzles, or challenges) before revealing a heartfelt letter from the sender. Built for birthdays, graduations, and milestones.
The first test card was for my own birthday. I lost the trivia round.
AI PII Detection & Redaction
ShippedProfessionalPrivacy at scale for images and video.
Production-grade system for identifying and redacting personally identifiable information from image and video content. Combines computer vision with multimodal foundation models to handle faces, documents, license plates, and more.
600+ attendees across two major AWS conferences. 5.0 CSAT.
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05 / Connect
Say hello
Always happy to connect with people building interesting things, whether that's a conversation, a collaboration, or just a good idea worth talking through.
Education
Bachelor of Computing, Honours — Software Design Specialization
Queen's University, 2018–2022
Ottawa Ladies' Excellence Scholarship
About this archive
This is a personal space; a record of work, ideas, and things I find worth documenting.
I'm interested in problems at the edge of what AI can do today, and in building systems that are genuinely useful rather than just technically impressive.
If something here resonates (a project, an idea, a shared interest) I'd love to hear from you.
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Built with care · Montreal, QC · 2025
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