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Steven Tikas

Role

AI Solutions Engineer

Location

Jacksonville, FL · Remote / Hybrid / Onsite

Experience

20+ Years

Availability

Open to the Right Opportunity

About Me

Get to know me!

Steven Tikas is an AI solutions engineer and full-stack developer who ships complete products — not demos. Recent work spans an AI-powered career workspace covering resume tailoring, mock interviews, and networking outreach, a document-AI pipeline that reads architectural drawing sets, and a self-hosted family platform running local and cloud models side by side.

I come from a background of over 20 years of experience in Technical Support, Customer Service, and Manufacturing. I'm looking to the future and see how AI is changing everything and want to be part of a company that sees that as well and is ready to use it to better their business and their customers lives.

When I'm not working, you can find me exploring new technologies, contributing to open-source projects, or reading books.

Education

B.S. in Information Technology from University of Phoenix

Location

Jacksonville, FL

Focus

AI-integrated full-stack products — LLM integration, RAG, and multi-agent orchestration

Core Stack

Python · TypeScript · React · Next.js

My Projects

Some of my recent work

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Worxstance

An AI career workspace covering resume tailoring, cover letters, skill-gap analysis, mock interviews, and networking outreach — with AI usage limits and per-user data isolation built in. Job discovery is fully built but hidden pending job-board legal clearance.

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SpecAnalyzer

A document-AI pipeline that reads architectural drawing sets: routes every page, parses window and door schedules, and computes glazing quantities deterministically — with source sheet, page, and confidence attached to every extracted row.

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Tikas Family Digital Home

A self-hosted family platform delivered spec-first across nine phases. Private questions run entirely on local models so household data never leaves the network; general questions route to Claude behind an explicit confirm step. 433 automated tests.

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YouTube Product Crew

A CrewAI-powered multi-agent system that automates YouTube product review content creation. Generates research reports, scripts, SEO keywords, titles, descriptions, and product images for a project which is then easily turned into a great looking product video

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MeBot - Ask About Steven

An AI-powered chatbot that answers questions about my experience, skills, projects, and background. Built with LangChain, OpenAI, and FastAPI, using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to provide accurate information from my bio, resume, and GitHub repositories.

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AI News Aggregator

Generate engaging AI-powered blog posts in minutes. AI agents research your topic and create 600-1000 word blog posts formatted with Jekyll front matter.

My Skills

What I've actually built with

AI & LLM

Anthropic Claude OpenAI Google Gemini DeepSeek Ollama (local inference) CrewAI LangChain Structured output Tool calling RAG Vector search (sqlite-vec) Model routing & cost control

Languages

Python TypeScript JavaScript SQL HTML / CSS Shell / PowerShell

Web & App

React Next.js Django FastAPI Node.js Tailwind CSS React Native (Expo) Gradio

Data & Cloud

PostgreSQL SQLite Firebase Firestore Cloud Functions Microsoft Azure AWS Textract Vercel Render

Testing & Quality

Vitest Cypress pytest Golden-fixture regression ESLint Git VS Code Cursor

Security & Ops

Role-based access control AES-256-GCM encryption OAuth 2.0 Session auth SSO / MFA Encrypted backup & restore Active Directory Linux

Certifications

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) Google Cybersecurity Certificate Advanced Business Analytics Foundations of Project Management Agile and Scrum Development

Contact Me

Get In Touch

Feel free to reach out to me for any questions or opportunities!

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Location

Jacksonville, FL USA

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