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Open to interesting workBirmingham, UK

Lionel
Muskwe.

Applied AI Software Engineer

I build production AI systems: agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, and SaaS platforms that hold up under real users, real audits, and real uptime targets.

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LOC
52.4862N 1.8904W
EDU
First-Class BSc CS
PUB
AI in Healthcare 2026

500

medical students on a platform I engineer

99.5%

uptime across client production SaaS

£5k

infrastructure budget owned, dev to production

3

junior developers led and mentored

WorkProduction systems

Selected work

Case studies written the way I build: context, system design, my role, outcome, trade-offs.

In productionNov 2025 – present

DialogicAI

AI patient simulation for medical training

An Aston University-funded platform that simulates patients with complex health conditions, so medical students can rehearse consultations and get rubric-based coaching before their licensing exams.

  • Django
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • LLM workflows
  • Prompt versioning

Read case study

Assessment design view showing a clinical performance framework broken into domains, sub-domains and individual scoring criteria
In productionFeb 2024 – Feb 2026

Care Compliance Platform

Compliance operations for domiciliary care

A multi-tenant SaaS platform serving 5 UK care agencies, automating onboarding, document processing, audit logging, and reporting, and keeping agencies ready for CQC inspection.

  • Django
  • DRF
  • React
  • Celery
  • RabbitMQ

Read case study

CCP dashboard showing organisation summary, audit review, and training report (demo data)
Shipped2024 – 2025

Articulate AI

AI speech feedback platform

A full-stack platform that turns a recorded talk into structured coaching: Deepgram transcription plus GPT-4 rubric evaluation across pacing, clarity, tone, structure, vocabulary, sentiment, and audience engagement.

  • React
  • Django
  • GPT-4
  • Deepgram
  • Docker

Read case study

Articulate AI dashboard with session scores and speech metrics

Experience2021 – present

Where I've shipped

  1. Nov 2025 – present

    AI Software Engineer & Full-Stack Developer · DialogicAI

    Aston University-funded medical communication training platform, live with 500 students.

    • Designed rubric-based evaluation structures covering communication, clinical reasoning, learner reflection, and coaching-style feedback.
    • Built backend workflows for rubric packs, scoring logic, and learner performance review, with dynamic prompt construction, prompt versioning, and a model-agnostic implementation.
    • Engineered safety guardrails that detect, flag, and propagate problematic interactions to administrators.
    • Owned a £5,000 infrastructure budget: PostgreSQL primary with read-only failover replica, full CI/CD pipeline, and stress testing under load.

  2. Feb 2024 – Feb 2026

    Freelance Software Engineer & Technical Lead · Care Compliance Platform

    Lead engineer on a multi-tenant compliance SaaS serving 5 UK care agencies.

    • Led development and delivery: onboarding, document processing, audit logging, and reporting.
    • Codified CQC regulatory requirements as enforced business constraints with automatic expiry and gap flagging.
    • Operated containerised production and staging with automated CI/CD at 99.5% uptime.
    • Technical lead across architecture, client demos, and three junior developers.

  3. Aug 2023 – Aug 2024

    Software Engineer, Industrial Placement · Pinewood Technologies

    International dealer management software provider, used by automotive dealerships worldwide.

    • Built and maintained features across multi-module systems including finance-critical workflows, using ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, SASS, and REST APIs.
    • Worked the full lifecycle: requirement discovery, Agile ceremonies, pair programming, post-deployment testing, and stakeholder collaboration.
    • Delivered high-severity solo tickets across business-critical modules.

  4. Jun 2022 – Sep 2022

    Junior Software Engineer · Beautiful Canoe

    Language mapping app: API redesign, web and mobile integration.

  5. Nov 2021 – Jul 2023

    Junior Web Developer · Apates

    APIs and web scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup for data pipeline automation.

CapabilitiesThree things I lead with

What I work with

AI and automation first, on top of a full-stack and DevOps foundation that gets things into production and keeps them there.

AI & Automation

The core of what I do now

  • Harness engineering
  • Context engineering
  • LLM workflow design
  • Prompt versioning
  • Evaluation rubrics
  • RAG
  • Tool calling
  • Human-in-the-loop systems

Backend & Data

Where the systems live

  • Python
  • Django
  • DRF
  • Celery
  • Redis
  • PostgreSQL
  • REST APIs

DevOps & Cloud

Shipping and staying up

  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS EC2/S3
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Sentry

Also fluentReact · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · C# · ASP.NET Core · Java · PHP · SQL · Git

AboutBeyond the code

The rest of the system

Lionel Muskwe presenting at a podium at Aston University London, in front of a Centre of Excellence for Enterprise AI and Capgemini banner
Aston University London · Centre of Excellence for Enterprise AI

Education

BSc (Hons) Computer Science, First Class

Aston University, Birmingham · 2021 – 2025

Key modules: Applied AI, Advanced Databases, Advanced System Security, System Administration, Software Project Management, Full-Stack Web Development, Data Structures and Algorithms.

Publication

AI-driven medical communication training

International Conference on AI in Healthcare · Imperial College London, Aug 2026

Contributing author on the DialogicAI research paper, accepted for presentation on 26–28 August 2026.

Leadership

  • Teaching Assistant at Aston University, supporting 300+ Computer Science students with live demos and tailored feedback (2024–2025).
  • Sole responsibility for three junior developers: directing implementation, reviewing code, and owning their progression.
  • President of the Aston University Computer Science Society; previously Captain of Aston Men's First Team Volleyball.
  • Led client demos, onboarding conversations, and architectural walkthroughs for SaaS and automation delivery.

Off duty

Zimbabwean-born, UK-raised. Competitive rugby, Sunday football, and strength training three times a week. Outside of sport I read up on the latest in applied AI and replicate it in my home lab.

Squat 260 · Deadlift 250 · Bench press 140 kg

Both reward consistency, both require attention to detail, and both forge resilience.

ContactUsually replies within a day

Let's build something together

Whether you're hiring, collaborating, or just saying hi, I'd love to hear from you.

Direct

lionel04muskwe@gmail.com

github.com/lionelMuskwe