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Julien Serbanescu

Computer Engineering Co-op @ University of Guelph (GPA 3.94/4.0) · Cloud Engineer @ Co-Operators · AI Security Researcher

Portfolio · LinkedIn · ORCID


Open Source Contributions

4 merged PRs across pydantic-ai and mcp-atlassian.

Project What Status
pydantic-ai ⭐ 10k Fixed Cohere tool_choice silently dropped in v2 chat API. Maintainer extended with VCR tests and named-subset handling Merged #5833
mcp-atlassian Added Confluence permission checking tools Merged #1320
mcp-atlassian Fixed Jira non-image attachments silently dropped by MCP clients (returned as rejected image blob) Merged #1469 (co-author, Co-authored-by credit)
mcp-atlassian Wired up cross-request credential validation cache, closing a WAF rate-limit trap Merged #1481 (co-author, consolidated with an independently opened fix)
pydantic-ai ⭐ 10k Cohere: implemented request_stream and CohereStreamedResponse, full streaming support where none existed 🔄 PR #6100, approved, CI green
mcp-atlassian Fixed jira_to_markdown stripping brackets from all bracketed text, not just bare links, silently rewriting [~user] mentions on every read 🔄 PR #1570
smolagents ⭐ 17k Fixed KeyError on tool_calls in AmazonBedrockModel with cross-region inference profiles 🔄 PR #2363
smolagents ⭐ 17k Fixed broken Space link in tools tutorial (Python 3.13 incompatibility) 🔄 PR #2364
crewAI ⭐ 31k Show updated agent answer before feedback prompt when verbose=False 🔄 PR #6386

Research

Venue Year Role Paper
SIGIR-AP 2025 First Author, Best Paper Nominee FalseCoTQA: Adversarial Multi-Hop QA via Knowledge-Grounded False Chains of Thought
CIKM 2025 Co-author Uncovering the Persuasive Fingerprint of LLMs in Jailbreaking Attacks
Canadian AI 2026 Co-author Cause-Conditioned Multi-Task Learning for Answerable Question Suggestion in MRC
Canadian AI 2026 Co-author From Hints to Answers: Uncertainty-Aware LLM-Guided Retrieval for Multi-Hop QA
SIGIR-AP 2024 Co-author UnAnswGen: Generating Unanswerable Questions in MRC

Featured Projects

Project Stack What it is
Argus Claude Code, SQLite, FastAPI, React/Vite Claude Code observability platform. Pre/PostToolUse hooks trace 12+ event types across 29 sessions and 1.4M+ tokens, 198 flagged events tracked, composite trust score
AgenticRobot Claude Code, MCP, FastMCP, Raspberry Pi Pico W Natural-language robot control via 15 FastMCP tools over TCP WiFi. Mecanum-wheel 4WD, obstacle avoidance, servo radar
FalseCoTQA Python, NLP SIGIR-AP 2025 Best Paper Nominee. Adversarial multi-hop QA benchmark, knowledge-grounded false chains of thought
ResumeWorthy Next.js, TypeScript, Supabase, Vercel AI job-application assistant. Resume tailoring, job matching, recruiter finder
AKO-Agentic-Kernel-Optimization Python, Agentic AI, AMD/HPC Autonomous system that generates, profiles, and refines GPU kernels for high-performance AI inference on AMD hardware

See the portfolio for more, including the interactive project explorer.


What I'm Working On

  • Co-Operators: Azure and Splunk cloud engineering, IGA/PAM compliance, FastAPI automation across Jira/Confluence
  • Cyber Science Lab @ U of Guelph: LLM jailbreak pipelines (97% ASR), RL-based real-time defenses, VLM adversarial vaccination
  • OSS: contributing to AI/ML libraries (pydantic-ai, smolagents, crewAI, mcp-atlassian)

Stack

Python PyTorch Azure Terraform Splunk FastAPI AWS C++ CUDA


Certifications

Anthropic (2026): Building with Claude API · Claude Code 101 · Claude Code in Action · Intro to Subagents · Intro to Agent Skills · Introduction to MCP · MCP Advanced Topics · Claude 101 · AI Fluency Framework · Introduction to Claude Cowork

Oracle: Agentic AI Certified Foundations Associate

Google Cloud: Vertex AI ML Solutions · ML APIs · BigQuery ML · Security Command Center

Other: Splunk Enterprise Security · MLOps Essentials (NASBA) · Databricks GenAI


serbanej@uoguelph.ca · LinkedIn · ORCID · Portfolio

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  1. ABB-IRB-120-Robotics-motion-analysis ABB-IRB-120-Robotics-motion-analysis Public

    Python

  2. AKO-Agentic-Kernel-Optimization AKO-Agentic-Kernel-Optimization Public

    A proposed system that autonomously generates, profiles and refines GPU kernels using Agentic AI and LLMs in order to optimize high performance AI inference on AMD hardware.

    Python

  3. FalseCoTQA FalseCoTQA Public

    We introduce FalseCoTQA, a benchmark that evaluates multi-hop question answering models by injecting factually incorrect but se- mantically coherent chains of thought into retrieval-augmented conte…

    Python 1

  4. ResumeWorthy ResumeWorthy Public

    Allows your resume to be split into components, easier to modularize and customize to jobs

    TypeScript 1

  5. WiggumLoopAgenticSWDeveloper WiggumLoopAgenticSWDeveloper Public

    Shell

  6. job-search-skill job-search-skill Public

    Automated job search skill for AI agents — find, evaluate, and apply to jobs across LinkedIn, Indeed, Glassdoor. Works with Claude Code, CrewAI, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, and any LLM with a bro…

    2