{"header":{"name":"Cole McIntosh","title":"Engineer & Founder, Mellow AI","contact":{"github":"https://github.com/colesmcintosh","linkedin":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/colemcintosh/","location":"Dallas, TX","email":"cole@staymellow.ai"}},"summary":"Full-stack engineer who builds the internal tools a company would otherwise buy — backend, data, front end, and the deploy. Agent systems that run daily operations, with the evals and monitoring to keep them unattended: 60% less manual effort in ops, 30% faster ticket resolution. Python and TypeScript, hands-on in Salesforce, Linear, and Jira. Author of LangChain's Salesforce integration and 50+ merged PRs on LiteLLM.","experience":[{"title":"Founder","company":"Mellow AI","period":"2025 – Present","description":["Built a sandboxed coding agent and agentic workflows for a global law firm under strict data boundaries","Owned the cost and latency tradeoffs on custom OCR: 95% cheaper, 75% faster than the prior path","Build across harnesses — Claude Code, Codex, Droid, OpenCode, Ori"]},{"title":"AI / Data Engineer","company":"Pay Ready","period":"2023 – 2025","description":["Built a general support agent harness that prompts and skills steer into new workflows","Shipped a lease and contract extraction API on GPT-4 Vision: 250K+ documents, +25% accuracy","Built the Slack RAG assistant teams used daily instead of a bought tool: 60% less manual effort, 75% faster retrieval"]},{"title":"Scaled Tooling Analyst","company":"Otter / CloudKitchens (now Atoms)","period":"2022 – 2023","description":["Embedded with ops and engineering on internal tooling: Python pipelines scoring ~500GB/week","Shipped a Jira ticketing chatbot from discovery to production: 30% faster resolution"]},{"title":"Business Analyst","company":"RealPage","period":"2021 – 2022","description":["Built SQL models and dashboards for 75+ internal users; cut manual reporting 25%"]}],"openSource":[{"name":"LiteLLM","description":"50+ merged PRs on the LLM gateway","link":"https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+author%3Acolesmcintosh"},{"name":"LangChain-Salesforce","description":"Author of the official Salesforce (CRM) integration","link":"https://github.com/colesmcintosh/langchain-salesforce"},{"name":"Pydantic AI","description":"Agent framework: xAI tools and model settings","link":"https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic-ai/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+author%3Acolesmcintosh"},{"name":"SmolAgents","description":"Hugging Face's lightweight agent framework","link":"https://github.com/huggingface/smolagents/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+author%3Acolesmcintosh"}],"projects":[{"name":"Open Lease Audit","description":"Streaming lease extraction and cross-portfolio integrity checks in TypeScript, with evidence and confidence per field.","link":"https://github.com/colesmcintosh/open-lease-audit"},{"name":"openextract","description":"Model-agnostic Python toolkit that turns PDFs, images, and text into typed, structured data. 1K+ PyPI downloads.","link":"https://mellow-artificial-intelligence.github.io/openextract/"},{"name":"pdfmd","description":"Zero-dependency Rust PDF-to-Markdown converter — parser, decoder, and heuristics end to end. ~4ms on a 17-page paper.","link":"https://github.com/colesmcintosh/pdfmd"}],"education":["RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Search, DeepLearning.AI","Azure Applied AI, Microsoft","AWS Cloud Technical Essentials, Amazon","Google Cloud Fundamentals, Google"]}