# Jay Sonani

> Jay Sonani is a Toronto-based Forward Deployed AI Engineer at PolyAI. His public engineering work includes the award-winning student team project AI-Birdie, traffic detection, a lecture timetable app, a Go reverse proxy and an LLM-powered brand voice API. He studied applied computer science at Dalhousie University and previously announced a software engineering role at Replicant.

- **Role:** Forward Deployed AI Engineer at PolyAI
- **Organizations:** PolyAI, Replicant
- **Education:** Master of Applied Computer Science, Dalhousie University, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Gujarat Technological University
- **Known for:** Member of the seven-person AI-Birdie team awarded the Special Jury Award at the ninth CSI-InApp National Student Project Awards in July 2020.

## Career timeline

- **2019** — Published Traffic-Detection and Live-Time-Table repositories.
- **2020** — AI-Birdie team received the CSI-InApp National Student Project Awards Special Jury Award.
- **2021** — Publicly reported admission to Dalhousie’s Master of Applied Computer Science program.
- **2022** — Named as an author of the Dalhousie Serverless B&B group project.
- **2024** — Announced joining Replicant as a Software Engineer.
- **2025** — Published a Go reverse proxy and LLM Voice API; public profiles list a move to PolyAI.

## Achievements

- Member of the seven-person AI-Birdie team awarded the Special Jury Award at the ninth CSI-InApp National Student Project Awards in July 2020.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Published LLM Voice API, a FastAPI service for generating and evaluating brand voice profiles.
- **2025-10** — Public professional directories list a Forward Deployed AI Engineer role at PolyAI; his LinkedIn currently identifies PolyAI as his employer.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaysonani/
- GitHub: https://github.com/JaySonani
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaysonani.dzign/

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Last updated: 2026-10-07