Curriculum vitae
Yuval OlshaDVLCE
Audio engineer · AV & live-event technician · AI engineering & software · video producer
Six years in professional audio and video production. Owner and head engineer of TheBASEment Recording Studio since 2021. AV technician since 2024 for corporate conferences and galas of 150 to 300+ guests, and AV lead for a two-day outdoor festival of about 2,500 attendees.
In-house video and motion producer at WZMH Architects. I also do AI engineering: I run multi-agent coding workflows with Claude Code and Codex, build MCP tool servers, run local LLMs, and keep a semantic search (RAG) index over 69 code repos. The products that come out of it include a local-AI security box, an AI CAD editor, client portals and a beat store with instant delivery.
- Toronto, ON
- dvlce@thebasement416.com
- 647-575-5653
- Studio founded
- 2021
- Attendees, largest AV event
- ~2,500
- Beats in the catalog
- 275
- Desktop tools shipped
- 12
Experience
Where I work
Audio Visual & Production Technician (Contract)
MJB Entertainment / The Marc Joseph Band
AV crew for a live-production company that delivers four- to eight-piece shows and full AV packages to corporate and private clients across Ontario.
- AV for conferences and galas of 150 to 300+ guests: CFC Summit North American Conference (Evergreen Brick Works), Swiss Chalet / Recipe 70th-anniversary conference, Electrofed Niagara Conference, TSMCA gala (Château Le Parc), IBX corporate party (Eglinton Grand), IKO Annual Awards Gala, NYE Amoré Gala.
- Front-of-house and monitor mixing on digital consoles; wireless microphone and in-ear monitor coordination for bands, MCs, speakers and awards segments.
- Technical point of contact with venue AV, planners and third-party AV, DJ and lighting suppliers.
- Own the touring AV inventory — console and IEM racks, microphones, cabling, transport — plus rentals reconciled against event budgets.
- Load-in to fixed door times, live troubleshooting, post-event reports; built and maintain mjbe.ca.
Festival AV Lead (Contract)
Better Futures For Kids Foundation — Tastes of South East Asia
Ran all audio-visual for the 5th-anniversary Tastes of South East Asia festival: two days, free admission, Mel Lastman Square, North York.
- Sole AV provider for about 2,500 attendees over the weekend of August 7–8, 2026.
- Stage sound for live music, dance and cultural performances from more than 22 Southeast Asian communities, plus DJ sets.
- AV for the Saturday-night Lotus Lantern Ceremony, which honours victims and survivors of human trafficking.
- Site meeting with the organizers before the event, then load-in, two show days and strike.
- The same foundation also booked me for its Taste of Vietnam festival.
Owner & Head Audio Engineer
TheBASEment Recording Studio · thebasement416.com
Commercial recording studio with a repeat paying client base.
- Track, mix and master vocal, full-band, live and podcast sessions; run the client relationship from scoping and deposits to deliverables and revisions.
- Operate and maintain the signal chain and monitoring; specify and buy equipment against a budget.
- Manage about 1.6 TB of client session assets, and built the client portal where clients stream, review and comment on their sessions.
Video & Motion Production
WZMH Architects
In-house video and motion graphics for a national architecture firm.
- Produced the firm's 65th-anniversary employee reel from multi-camera interviews: selects, audio sync, lower thirds, colour, loudness, vertical and horizontal deliverables.
- Built the internal motion-graphics platform and Premiere Pro / After Effects template and automation pipelines, locked to the brand standard.
- Wrote the technical documentation the pipeline runs on.
Event AV Support (Contract)
Magen Boys Entertainment
- AV setup and on-site support for corporate and charity events at Toronto venues, from walkthrough to strike.
Founder
DVLCE / NoBreak Security Corp · advertising.dvlce.ca
- Websites, media hosting and analytics for small-business clients, with the hosting, access control, uptime monitoring and runbooks behind them.
- Incorporated NoBreak Security Corp (Ontario) in 2026: a local-AI security monitoring box with mobile and desktop apps.
Skills
What I bring
AI engineering
- Multi-agent coding workflows (Claude Code, Codex)
- MCP servers & tool integration
- RAG / semantic code search
- Retrieval evals (Hit@5, MRR)
- Local LLMs (Ollama, Qwen, Gemma)
- Computer-vision detection (Frigate)
- LLM API integration
Live audio & AV
- Digital consoles (FOH + monitors)
- Wireless mic planning
- In-ear monitors
- Gain structure
- Playback
- Live multitrack recording
- Stage plots & power
- Load-in / strike
Studio
- Pro Tools
- FL Studio
- UAD / Waves / FabFilter
- UAD Sphere DLX
- Shure SM7B
- Rode NTK
- Mixing & mastering
- Loudness normalization
Video & motion
- Premiere Pro
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Multi-cam sync
- Colour
- Teams / Zoom / Meet hybrid events
Web & software
- Next.js / React
- Tailwind
- Node.js
- Python
- Electron
- Stripe
- Vercel
- Cloudflare Workers & R2
- Firebase
- SQLite
Hardware & fabrication
- ESP32 / ESPHome
- PlatformIO
- Home Assistant
- Bambu P1S
- Prusa MK4
- Custom mounts & controllers
Operations
- Run-of-show & riders
- Post-event reporting
- AV inventory
- Vendor quotes & rentals
- Budget reconciliation
- Technical documentation
Selected builds
Things I made
Agent command center
Self-hosted dashboard that launches and supervises Claude and Codex coding agents: skill launcher, permission-gate approvals, voice input and project health checks.
Code & knowledge search (RAG)
Local semantic search over 69 code repos and a knowledge base, so agents load only the slice they need. Code Hit@5 0.93, about 0.2 s per query.
Agent bridge
MCP server that lets Claude and Codex hand reviews, questions and code changes to each other, with watchdogs and a saved report for every call.
DVLCE Beat Store
275-beat catalog with free tagged downloads, server-priced Stripe leases and instant delivery from a private R2 bucket.
Studio Client Portal
Clients of TheBASEment stream, review and comment on their own sessions, with a shared beats library.
NoBreak Brain Box
Home and small-business security monitoring with on-box AI: Frigate object detection and local LLM inference, no cloud. Mobile app, desktop app and Home Assistant integration.
ClawSCAD
Desktop 3D CAD editor that joins OpenSCAD and AI in one live viewport, with checkpoint branching.
Splat Capture
Android capture to Gaussian-splat 3D models on a Windows host, with STL / 3MF export for printing.
Windows right-click tools
TinyTalk offline transcription, FFmpeg and document converters, RipWave, NetShare and more — 12 tools, no admin rights needed.
Education & training
Where I learned
Audio Engineering & Production / DJ Arts
Trebas Institute — Toronto · 2020 – 2021
Studio recording, live sound reinforcement, signal flow, acoustics and mixing; Avid Pro Tools coursework.
Certifications & training
- Google Ads Search Certification — Skillshop (Google) · Certification · Oct 2026, valid until Oct 2027 · verify
- Claude Code 101 — Claude Academy (Anthropic) · Course completion badge · Oct 2026 · verify
- Building with the Claude API — Claude Academy (Anthropic) · Course completion badge · Oct 2026 · verify
- Claude with Amazon Bedrock — Claude Academy (Anthropic) · Course completion badge · Oct 2026 · verify
- Claude 101 — Claude Academy (Anthropic) · Course completion badge · Oct 2026 · verify
- AI Fluency: Framework and foundations — Claude Academy (Anthropic) · Course completion badge · Oct 2026 · verify
- Get Started with Codex — OpenAI Academy · Course certificate · Oct 2026, valid until Apr 2027 · download signed credential (JSON)
- AI Foundations — OpenAI Academy · Course certificate · Oct 2026, valid until Apr 2027 · download signed credential (JSON)