Tygo Crawley

Education

Western University - B.ESc, Software Engineering 2022 - 2027 (expected)

• GPA 3.7 / 4.0. London, Canada.

Experience

Thames Valley Financial - AI Transformation & Operations Intern May 2026 - present

• Leading the technology transformation of an early-stage startup: self-hosted GitHub Enterprise, GCP, and Terraform CI/CD pipelines.
• Migrating in-house Excel models to a Python calculation API built with FastAPI, running on GCP.
• Built the company website with Astro (tvfi.ca).

Scotiabank - ML Engineer Intern Sept 2025 - May 2026

• Implemented an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation and red-teaming framework (Python, LangChain, Vertex AI), cutting the evaluation cycle from over one week to 50 minutes across 1000+ examples.
• Engineered automated ETL pipelines on GCP with Spark and Airflow, reducing processing time by 60% across two business lines.
• Architected the migration of PowerBI analytics tables from Excel DAX to BigQuery, reducing load times by 40%.

Durham Employment & Newcomer Centre - IT Administrator Summers 2024 & 2025

• Developed a production RAG chatbot for internal operations on a fully self-hosted, open-source stack, preserving complete data sovereignty.
• Configured and deployed Windows devices, network routers, and smart security systems.

Leadership

Western Engineering Autopilot - Team Lead, Perception Oct 2024 - present

• Directing a team of 11 students building an autonomous vehicle vision system using cameras and LiDAR.
• Responsible for coordination and development of multi-sensor data pipelines and sensing algorithms.

Projects

LLM from scratch Python, PyTorch, CUDA

• Built a transformer-based language model from scratch: tokenizer, dataloader, attention, architecture, and training loop.

Agentic schedule assistant OpenAI Agents SDK, MCP

• Schedule assistant agent with a custom MCP server that summarizes a calendar and suggests optimizations.

EuroTravel Angular, Node, AWS

• Web app for searching European destinations, backed by SQLite and deployed on AWS.