Richard Pillaca

Full-stack engineer, currently focused on the frontend, building scalable interfaces with React, Next.js, and Node.js. I've shipped AI-driven apps and engineered systems end to end.

Now going deeper into AI infrastructure and high-performance engineering.

Tenacious.·Analytical.·Charismatic.

📍Toronto, ON

My work

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01FULL STACKJun 2026

El Umbral — Relief Project Hub

Next.js 16React 19TypeScriptTailwind CSS v4ZodFuse.js

A bilingual "search before you build" hub for Venezuela earthquake relief — find an existing effort and join it, or publish yours with the stack and the help it needs.

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02FULL STACK 2026Apr – May 2026

Empeñalo — Fintech Marketplace

Next.jsReactTailwindSupabaseVercelUpstash Redis

A Peruvian fintech marketplace where users pawn/secure items and receive multiple real offers from businesses.

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03FULL STACK 2026Apr – May 2026

ScoutLane — Recruitment Platform

ReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgresAI Resume Parser

AI-powered recruitment pipeline for parsing resumes, tracking candidates, and managing hiring workflows

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04FULL STACKMay 2025 – Aug 2025

ExamVault — Automated Exam Generation & Analysis

PythonDjangoPostgreSQLReact.jsTailwind CSSREST API

Full-stack platform: automated exam generation, analytics dashboard, and grading pipeline processing 100,000+ student records.

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05DATA SCIENCESep 2024 – Dec 2024

Bike Share Network Optimization

RRStudioigraphWard's ClusteringGraph TheoryPower BI

Where does a city's bike-share network actually break? I mapped 150K+ Mobi Vancouver trips as a living graph to find the hubs that hold it together — and the gaps that quietly cost it.

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What I do

Skills & Stack

Three disciplines I move between, usually on the same project: engineering, AI, and data.

Software Engineering

Full-stack with a frontend focus. I turn designs into responsive, event-driven interfaces and back them with modular auth, reusable components, and CI/CD pipelines.

ReactNext.jsNode.jsTypeScriptDjangoLaravelTailwind CSSDockerCI/CD

AI & Automation

I wire LLMs into real products, like AI that parses resumes into structured, filterable data, and automate the busywork around them with agents, RAG, and webhooks.

LLM IntegrationRAGAI AgentsLangGraphMCPVercel AIEvent-drivenWebhooks

Data & Analytics

Data-driven by default. I build ETL pipelines that process millions of records and turn them into Power BI dashboards and reporting that replace hours of manual work.

SQLPostgreSQLPower BI / DAXETLPandasExcel