COLE MCINTOSH

Full Stack 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

FOUNDER — Mellow 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 ENGINEER — Pay 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 ANALYST — Otter

2022–2023

•Built Python pipelines processing ~500GB weekly with AI scoring

•Developed AI-driven Jira chatbot improving resolution times 30%

BUSINESS ANALYST — RealPage

2021–2022

•Designed SQL models and dashboards for 75+ internal users

•Automated reporting pipelines, reducing manual workload 25%

Open Source

LANGCHAIN-SALESFORCE — Author of official Salesforce integration

LITELLM — Contributor (50+ merged PRs)

SMOLAGENTS — Occasional contributor to the lightweight agent framework

Projects

MELLOW CLI — Terminal AI Assistant (TypeScript, Ink, OpenRouter). Minimal, React-based CLI assistant with streaming output, slash commands, and real-time model selection. Built on Bun and OpenRouter for calm, terminal-native AI interaction.

OPENXTRACT — AI Document Extraction Toolkit (Python, Pydantic). Open-source library that turns PDFs, images, and text into structured data using LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, XAI). Type-safe, fast, and model-agnostic with 1K+ downloads on PyPI.

Education & Certifications

AWS Cloud Technical Essentials (Amazon)
Google Cloud Fundamentals (Google)
Azure Applied AI (Microsoft)
DeepLearning.AI: RAG, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Search