Tim Iordan — Technical Lead

Quality engineering & AI systems, built and led end‑to‑end.

I pair rigorous quality engineering with hands-on AI work — agentic orchestration, enterprise test automation, production reliability — turning ambitious ideas into software that holds up.

0K+

production AI events analyzed for reliability

est. 2026
0+

automated tests authored

9

pillar QA framework architected

4+

languages shipped to production

Available for select engagements. QA leadership, AI systems, and the guardrails in between.

What I do

Capabilities

01

QA Strategy & Test Automation Leadership

Multi-layer automation frameworks with reusable components, requirement-to-test traceability, issue-tracker-synced defect automation, and audit-grade compliance reporting — regression on a scheduled CI/CD cadence.

02

Applied AI Engineering & Orchestration

Agentic pipelines that turn intent into validated, executable workflows — LLM integration with structured outputs and streaming, provider-agnostic .NET and Python backends, and clean REST + gRPC contracts.

03

Quality at Scale & Observability

Instrumenting production AI systems, profiling hundreds of thousands of events to pinpoint failure modes, and building gold-standard regression suites with LLM-reviewed ground truth that catch model drift before it reaches users.

04

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

Leading and growing engineering teams — PR-style code review, coding and documentation standards, calibrated technical interviews with structured rubrics, and knowledge transfer that lets teams own the work.

Selected work

Things I've built & led

AI · Orchestration

Agentic Workflow Compiler

A conversational engine that elicits a use case and compiles it into a validated, executable workflow — five-phase pipeline, LLM structured outputs, streaming, and a visual node editor.

Python · FastAPI · Next.js · GPT-4o

AI · Quality

Model-Drift Regression Harness

A 900+ sample, 21-category gold-standard suite with LLM-reviewed ground truth that auto-asserts across detection, classification, matching and OCR — catching drift before release.

Python · pytest · Vision ML

QA · Enterprise

Enterprise QA Automation Framework

A nine-pillar modular framework for a large institutional platform: requirement-test traceability, issue-tracker-synced defect automation, scheduled regression, and audit/compliance reporting.

UiPath Test Suite · Jira · CI/CD

Backend · Infra

AI Pipeline Platform APIs

Production REST + gRPC services for pipeline storage, validation and caching on a provider-agnostic ORM across two database engines, with async validation and webhook cache invalidation.

C# · .NET · gRPC · Redis

QA · Automation

UI Testing & Flakiness Detection

A browser-automation framework that crawls dynamic UIs, uses multi-signal oracles (API, route, DOM, overlay) to confirm real interactions, skips destructive controls, and reports flaky elements.

Playwright · TypeScript

Mobile · On-device ML

On-Device Ensemble-OCR App

A privacy-first, cross-platform app that runs multiple OCR engines on-device and merges them by majority vote, with duplicate detection, categorization, and one-tap accounting exports.

Flutter · Dart · On-device ML

Toolkit

The stack I reach for

Python C# / .NET TypeScript Dart / Flutter FastAPI Next.js gRPC LLM Agents Playwright pytest UiPath Test Suite Jira SQL Server / Postgres Redis Azure Docker

About

I work where quality engineering meets applied AI — and I still write the code.

Tim Iordan · Founder, I Warden Corp.

I've led QA strategy for enterprise platforms and directed AI engineering teams building agentic systems — and I'm just as comfortable in a .NET backend, a Python service, or a Flutter app as I am setting direction and reviewing a team's pull requests.

What I care about is the unglamorous layer that decides whether software actually works: guardrails, tests, observability, and the standards that keep a system dependable long after launch. That's what I Warden is about.

let's talk 👋

Contact

Let's build something dependable.

Scoping a first AI agent, hardening one that's already live, or standing up a QA practice that scales — I'd be glad to help.

tim@iwarden.ca Response within 1–2 business days