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Fredrick Cyril

Builder · Husband · Dad · Follower of Jesus

Fredrick Cyril

I work at the intersection of technology, product, AI, and business — turning complicated problems into practical systems that people can actually use.

I grew up in Coimbatore, India. Home is now Metro Vancouver — and when I’m not building something, you’ll probably find me on a basketball court.

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Portrait of Fredrick Cyril

A little about me

Faith, family, and a lot of building.

I grew up in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and studied computer science at Karunya University. I started experimenting with my own business in 2008, while I was still in college — and I’ve been building things ever since.

In 2011, I encountered Jesus for myself. I’d grown up in a Christian family, but that was the moment that changed the course of my life. If not for Him, I wouldn’t be who I am today.

In 2014, I married the love of my life. Our daughter arrived in 2018, and in 2019 we moved our family to Metro Vancouver. Our son was born the following year.

Outside work, you’ll usually find me with my family or on a basketball court. I love the game, and I love keeping myself fit.

Fredrick

Fredrick with his wife and their two children on a neighbourhood street under a Japanese maple.
The four of us
Fredrick in a yellow fleece jacket, standing in a park among autumn trees.
Autumn
Fredrick and his wife smiling together beneath a cherry tree in full blossom.
Married since 2014
Fredrick with his wife and their two children, seated on a bench between Christmas trees and paper stars.
Christmas together

The journey

From Coimbatore to Vancouver.

A career that kept moving closer to the problem — and a family and faith that shaped every step of it.

  • Work
  • Family & life
  • Faith

  1. Early yearsFamily & life

    Growing up in Coimbatore

    Grew up in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, in a Christian family.

  2. 2006 — 2010Work

    Engineering foundation

    Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science at Karunya University.

  3. 2008 — 2015Work

    Running my first firm

    Started my first business while still in college. Experimented a lot, mostly building mobile applications, and learned requirements, delivery, and hiring along the way.

  4. 2011Faith

    Encountering Jesus

    I grew up in a Christian family, but 2011 was the first time I encountered Jesus for myself. It changed the course of my life.

  5. 2014Family & life

    Married the love of my life

  6. 2016 — 2017Work

    Consulting in Qatar

    Moved to Qatar as an independent consultant, designing ERP and mobile workflows for a trading and contracting business.

  7. 2017 — 2019Work

    Leading delivery at ShlokLabs

    Project manager and mobility lead for an enterprise inspection platform — my first large-scale delivery role.

  8. 2018Family & life

    Our daughter was born

  9. 2019Family & life

    A new home in Canada

    Moved our family to Metro Vancouver and started at Fortify in Richmond, building secure mobile software.

  10. 2020Family & life

    Our son was born

  11. 2020 — 2025Work

    Building products from the ground up

    Moved into product development — shipping two full products, FoodyGuru and YoseeAI, and leading engineering at ShlokLabs along the way.

  12. 2026 — nowWork · Now

    Practical AI & automation

    Through ArkSystems, helping businesses find where AI genuinely belongs in their day-to-day work.

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What I do

From ideas to systems that actually work.

My work has ranged from enterprise solutions and product delivery to cloud platforms, workflow automation, AI systems, and building products from the ground up.

  1. Technology & Solutions

    Designing systems, integrations, cloud environments, and technical solutions around real operational needs.

    • Solutions architecture
    • Cloud
    • Integrations
    • Platform design
    • Technical discovery

  2. Product & Delivery

    Taking ideas from ambiguity through product thinking, planning, execution, and delivery.

    • Product roadmap
    • Project management
    • Requirements
    • Delivery
    • Cross-functional execution

  3. AI & Automation

    Finding practical places where AI and automation can reduce repetitive work, improve visibility, and help people make better decisions.

    • AI workflows
    • Automation
    • Business process design
    • Human-in-the-loop systems
    • Workflow orchestration

Selected work

A few things I’ve helped build, shape, or deliver.

01 · Current

ArkSystemsAI / Automation / Business Systems

Making AI useful inside everyday business workflows

Through ArkSystems, I explore how AI and automation can be applied to real operational work — not just chat interfaces. Recent work has included workflow discovery for a physiotherapy clinic and document-intake workflows for accounting practices, with human approval and audit trails designed in from the start.

  • Workflow discovery
  • Business process automation
  • Document workflows
  • AI-assisted operations
  • Human approval controls
  • Privacy-conscious implementation
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  1. YoseeAI

    2023 — 2025

    Technology / Product

    From product idea to technical platform

    Architected and led engineering on an AI-powered platform for analysing and responding to customer reviews — from backend workflows and APIs to a grounded, guard-railed assistant and cloud deployment.

    • Architecture
    • AI services
    • APIs
    • Cloud infrastructure
    • Flutter

  2. FoodyGuru

    2020 — 2025

    Product / Platform

    Building and shaping a food technology product

    Owned the product roadmap and technical delivery for diner and restaurant management apps — two Flutter applications across Android, iOS, and web, with payments and real-time ordering. Built the team and the delivery pipeline behind them.

    • Product roadmap ownership
    • Product development
    • Team building
    • Delivery pipelines

  3. ShlokLabs

    2017 — 2019 · 2023 — 2025

    Project / Product Delivery

    Leading delivery across complex technology projects

    First as project manager, delivering a digital inspection platform that replaced paper-based audits with dynamic checklists, offline work, and signature capture. Later as Director of Engineering, leading a team of 15+ as that product evolved into a lighter SaaS offering.

    • Project delivery
    • Roadmap planning
    • Engineering leadership
    • Enterprise stakeholders

  4. Earlier career

    2008 — 2017

    Solutions Engineering

    Solving complex customer and business problems with technology

    Co-founding my first firm, and later consulting in Qatar, taught me the fundamentals: gathering requirements, getting sign-off before building, and turning business operations — HR, inventory, finance, CRM — into working web and mobile systems.

    • Requirements
    • ERP solutions
    • Mobile development
    • Stakeholder validation

What I believe

A few things I live by.

Faith is the foundation of my life. It shapes how I work, how I lead, and how I treat the people around me.

  1. Put your faith in God.

    Listen to Him, and keep working towards your goals.

  2. Ignore the noise.

    There will always be noise around you. Just keep doing what you do.

  3. Keep learning.

    Every minute is a learning experience — and learning is what keeps you young.

  4. Build a team that believes in you.

    Find those people, or build that team. Together, you can achieve far more.

  5. Give before you receive.

    Always look to give first — and invest in relationships that last.

Connect

Let’s build something useful.

If you’d like to talk about technology, product, AI, business systems, or an interesting problem, I’d be happy to connect.

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Or write to fredrick@fredrickcyril.com