Cole McIntosh

Founder @Mellow AI

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Cole McIntosh

Software Engineer & Founder — Mellow AI


About

Founder of Mellow AI — an AI consulting and product studio building cloud-native agent frameworks, knowledge hubs, and open-source LLM infrastructure. Experienced across AWS, Azure, and GCP with a record of deploying scalable, cost-optimized AI systems. Contributor to LangChain (Salesforce integration author), LiteLLM (50+ merged PRs), and other projects in LLM memory, evaluation, and orchestration.


Experience

FounderMellow AI

2025 – Present
  • Building open-source AI frameworks and agent infrastructure
  • Designed OpenXtract: structured data extraction from PDFs/images with OCR + LLMs
  • Contributed to LiteLLM (50+ merged PRs)
  • Custom OCR implementations, reducing costs by 95% and latency by 75%

AI / Data EngineerPay Ready

2023 – 2025
  • Automated workflows with AI agents, cutting manual effort 60%
  • Built multimodal AI systems for document + text analysis (+25% accuracy)
  • Created Slack-integrated RAG bots reducing retrieval time 75%

Scaled Tooling AnalystOtter / CloudKitchens (now Atoms)

2022 – 2023
  • Built Python pipelines processing ~500GB weekly with AI scoring
  • Developed AI-driven Jira chatbot improving resolution times 30%

Business AnalystRealPage

2021 – 2022
  • Designed SQL models and dashboards for 75+ internal users
  • Automated reporting pipelines, reducing manual workload 25%

Open Source

LangChain-SalesforceAuthor of official Salesforce integration
LiteLLMContributor (50+ merged PRs)
SmolAgentsOccasional contributor to the lightweight agent framework

Projects

LangChain SalesforceOfficial Salesforce integration for LangChain. Provides document loaders and toolkits for Salesforce data, enabling LLM-powered workflows over CRM objects, SOQL queries, and Salesforce APIs.
OpenXtractOpen-source document extraction toolkit (Python, Pydantic). Turns PDFs, images, and text into structured data using LLMs. Type-safe, model-agnostic, 1K+ PyPI downloads.

Education & Certifications

  • AWS Cloud Technical Essentials — Amazon
  • Google Cloud Fundamentals — Google
  • Azure Applied AI — Microsoft
  • RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Search — DeepLearning.AI