Lionel Muskwe.
Applied AI Software Engineer
- Birmingham, UK
- lionel04muskwe@gmail.com
- github.com/lionelMuskwe
Profile
I build production AI systems: agentic workflows, evaluation harnesses, and SaaS platforms that hold up under real users, real audits, and real uptime targets.
Selected impact
- 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
Experience
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.
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.
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.
Jun 2022 – Sep 2022
Junior Software Engineer · Beautiful Canoe
Language mapping app: API redesign, web and mobile integration.
Nov 2021 – Jul 2023
Junior Web Developer · Apates
APIs and web scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup for data pipeline automation.
Capabilities
- AI & Automation
- Harness engineering · Context engineering · LLM workflow design · Prompt versioning · Evaluation rubrics · RAG · Tool calling · Human-in-the-loop systems
- Backend & Data
- Python · Django · DRF · Celery · Redis · PostgreSQL · REST APIs
- DevOps & Cloud
- Docker · GitHub Actions · AWS EC2/S3 · CI/CD pipelines · Prometheus · Grafana · Sentry
- Also fluent
- React · Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · C# · ASP.NET Core · Java · PHP · SQL · Git
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.