Josh Cannon | AI Engineer & Product Builder

AI Engineer · AI Product Engineer

I build production AI products that solve real operational problems, from backend pipelines to interfaces people rely on daily.

A stubborn optimist about where all this is going. I make AI things — for clients, and for myself.

Projects

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Shopify Catalog Automation
Shopify Catalog Automation
Active2026
A distributor-to-Shopify product pipeline for a niche e-commerce retailer. Scrapes the supplier catalog, cleans it up, and pushes draft products into their store — with a hosted control panel so the owner runs it without me.
Live on the client's store and in daily use, cutting roughly two hours a day of manual catalog entry. Grew into ongoing retainer work.
PythonShopify APIFastAPIRailwayBeautifulSoup
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LifeOS
LifeOS
Active2026
A personal AI operating system I built and use daily — one agent that ingests my meetings, finances, and notes into a connected knowledge base, then runs scheduled jobs against it: morning briefs, a job scanner, portfolio sends.
Runs every day on real infrastructure: 15+ production services, a dozen-plus third-party integrations (Plaid, Twilio, Stripe, Neon, Google Health), and 13 scheduled jobs across a four-tier compute setup.
PythonTypeScriptReactNeon PostgresPlaidTwilio
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CampusNova
CampusNova
Shipped3rd Place · EURēCA 20262026
AI-powered academic advising platform for university students. Degree-audit uploads become personalized course recommendations, semester planning, and advisor collaboration in one workflow.
3rd Place (CECS Division) at UTK's 30th EURēCA Undergraduate Research Conference, out of 600+ entries — built end-to-end as my capstone.
ReactTypeScriptFastAPIPythonSupabasePyMuPDF
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Folio Brief
Folio Brief
Active2026
Weekly AI-written portfolio brief. Subscribers connect Plaid, then receive a Friday-close email summarizing their holdings, week-over-week change, and benchmarks against the S&P 500 and NASDAQ.
In production since April 2026 — multi-tenant signup at folio-brief.vercel.app, automated weekly send via launchd cron at market close, zero missed sends since launch.
ViteReactTypeScriptTailwind v4Neon PostgresPlaid
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About

I just graduated from the University of Tennessee with a B.S. in Applied AI (May 2026). I build full-stack AI products end-to-end: backend pipelines, the interfaces people actually use, and the glue that keeps them running in production.

I work part-time at Marshall & Stevens building AI automation for forensic valuation workflows, and I run Cannon AI LLC — an AI consulting practice focused on helping clients automate the manual, repetitive work that slows them down. Before that I built CampusNova, an AI academic-advising platform that placed 3rd at UTK's EURēCA conference.

I move fast with modern AI tooling, but the durable skill underneath is product thinking, workflow automation, and Python backends that hold up under real load. I like the craft of turning rough ideas into products people rely on.

Experience

Cannon AI LLC·Founder & AI EngineerDraper, UT (Remote)2026 — Now
- Founded an AI consulting practice building custom automation and AI tooling for small businesses
- Built a distributor-to-Shopify catalog automation that scrapes supplier catalogs into draft products — replacing ~2 hours/day of manual entry, delivered live to the client's store
PythonShopify APIFastAPIRailwayBeautifulSoup
Marshall & Stevens·AI Implementation InternSalt Lake City, UT (Remote)2025 — Now
- Designed and delivered twice-weekly AI training program for 100+ professional staff across Salt Lake City and other major city offices, covering prompt engineering, LLM platforms, and applied AI workflows
- Built and deployed AI-assisted internal tools including a personal injury damage calculator and a contract data extraction pipeline processing with the ability to extract data from 3,000+ PDF documents at a time
PythonFastAPILLM PromptingPrompt EngineeringDocument Processing
LP
Lone Peak Valuation Group·Data Entry AnalystSalt Lake City, UT2022 — 2023
- Contributed to valuation and litigation support deliverables including financial reports and documentation packages
- Processed and validated large, structured datasets for financial analysis, improving data quality through standardized review practices
ExcelData ValidationFinancial AnalysisDocumentation
Nordstrom·Sales Associate, Men's DepartmentSalt Lake City, UT2023 — 2023
- Advised customers on menswear, increasing average transaction value approximately 15% above department average
- Ranked 3rd in customer-list growth among department associates through consultative sales and repeat client engagement
Consultative SalesClient Relationships
NBRA
National Basketball Referees Association·Basketball RefereeSalt Lake City, UT2020 — 2025
- Officiated 500+ high-pressure games across competitive leagues; ranked top-30 referee statewide
- Managed real-time conflict resolution among players, coaches, and spectators under fast-paced, high-stakes conditions
Conflict ResolutionReal-time Judgment
University of Tennessee·B.S. Applied AI, CECSKnoxville, TN2024 — 2026
Emerging Innovator Award · CECS 2026EURēCA 2026 · 3rd Place
- Transferred in as a junior and started in finance, then switched to Applied AI after my first semester — graduated with a B.S. in Applied AI (CECS).
- Co-Founded AI Vols (UTK's AI student org); active in AIM Rising Stars, Finance Club, Phi Gamma Delta
Applied AIProduct EngineeringSystems ThinkingCross-functional Collaboration
University of Utah·Marketing (pre-transfer)Salt Lake City, UT2022 — 2024
- Studied marketing my freshman and sophomore years before transferring to UTK and pivoting into AI.
MarketingBusiness Foundations