
Joshua Kirby
I’m a 2nd‑year AI & CS student with experience shipping production-grade LLM applications for real-world businesses.
I like taking ambiguous ideas and turning them into reliable AI products.
Work Experience
GenkiJACS
Sep 2023 – Jun 2024
Software Engineer Intern
The HALO Trust
Dec 2021 – Apr 2023
Student Intern - Technology
Education
University of Birmingham
GenkiJACS Internship
RAG chatbot handling 10,000+ messages from 2,000+ users, saving ~70 staff‑hours/week.
Zero‑maintenance scraping pipeline that provides analytics to guide site improvements.
Conducted ablation studies with 700+ relevance judgments to optimise the RAG pipeline.
AI Conversational Placement Test
Cut the placement process from 2 weeks to 30 minutes by replacing manual Zoom interviews.
Automated a senior teacher's grading process with a state machine validated by a 600-sample eval suite.
Designed a multi-tenant platform with configurable auth that grants ownership while supporting diverse privacy requirements.