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Richard Bilson

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Head of AI Engineering at Kubex
📍 Kitchener, Ontario, Canada

Richard is the Head of AI Engineering at Kubex, specializing in system architecture and data engineering. With a background from the University of Waterloo, his career has focused on impactful technologies like Apache Kafka and Flink, notably modernizing platforms at Auvik Networks before his current role in AI.

Outside of his professional work, Richard has a deep-seated passion for coding, which he applies to personal projects, such as automating parts of his life. During his university years, he was an editor for the student publication mathNEWS, showing an early interest in technical communication and writing.

He has observed that one of the biggest lessons from his work in AI is how severely underutilized many of the worlds expensive GPUs are.

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Experience
20 Years
Current Role
Head of AI Engineering
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Personality Overview

How Richard shows up

Curious
Value Driven
Example Seeker

They can sound friendly and charming but can quickly change gears to become inquisitive and probing. They often ask many questions and rely heavily on information and documentation. They are generally strong communicators and are not easy to convince.

Priorities

Topics Richard cares about

GPU Optimization
His current role and recent commentary focus on optimizing complex Kubernetes and GPU resources to improve efficiency and reduce cost for AI workloads.
Stream Processing
Has extensive experience defining new platform architectures using modern stream processing tools like Apache Kafka and Apache Flink during his time as Technical Director.
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Career

Work history

6-2025
Head of AI Engineering
Kubex
4-2021 - 2-2025
Technical Director
Auvik Networks Inc.
10-2019 - 4-2021
Technical Lead
Auvik Networks Inc.
10-2017 - 10-2019
Manager, Engineering
Auvik Networks Inc.
8-2011 - 8-2015
Software Developer
QNX Software Systems
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Education
2000 - 2003
M. Math
University of Waterloo
1995 - 2000
B. Math
University of Waterloo
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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