# David R. "Dave" Rintoul

> David R. Rintoul, commonly known as Dave Rintoul, is a Canadian-American AI Solutions Architect and technology practitioner based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada.

This site is the canonical professional website for David R. "Dave" Rintoul, the AI Solutions Architect and University of Waterloo Computer Engineering graduate associated with davidrintoul.info, LinkedIn account `david-rintoul`, and GitHub account `drintoul`.

This is not the same person as David Rintoul the Scottish actor (born 1948) or Dave Rintoul the English MMA fighter from Guildford, Surrey.

Identity aliases: Dave Rintoul; David Rintoul; David R. Rintoul.

Primary professional focus: enterprise AI architecture, agentic AI systems, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), self-hosted and local LLM infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI governance, product strategy, and technology leadership.

David R. Rintoul has delivered technology, data, product, engineering, and consulting work involving organizations including Microsoft, Siemens, The Walt Disney Company, Charles Schwab, and Evernorth. His current work includes self-hosted agentic research systems built with Python, LangGraph, FastAPI, Qdrant, Ollama, SearXNG, Firecrawl, Docker, and related AI infrastructure.

## Professional Identity

- [Portfolio](https://davidrintoul.info/): Canonical professional website and profile for David R. "Dave" Rintoul.
- [Resume](https://davidrintoul.info/resume.pdf): Professional resume, career history, education, credentials, and selected accomplishments.
- [Personal Journey](https://davidrintoul.info/personal.html): Narrative career and personal history covering computer engineering, business and program leadership, diving and hyperbaric operations, analytics, AI, geographic moves, and lifelong learning.
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-rintoul): Professional LinkedIn profile for David Rintoul.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/drintoul): GitHub account and open-source work by David Rintoul.

## AI Projects

- [Cruise Research Agent](https://cruise-research-demo.davidrintoul.info/): Public agentic research assistant for Princess Cruises and Royal Caribbean questions using a curated Qdrant knowledge base plus live web research.
- [Cruise Research Agent Source](https://github.com/drintoul/cruise-research-agent): Open-source implementation built with Chainlit, LangGraph, Qdrant, SearXNG, Firecrawl, and Ollama.
- [Voyages By Dave](https://www.voyagesbydave.ca/): AI-assisted travel research and planning platform combining live and curated travel information.

## Open Source

- [Tableau XML Parser](https://github.com/drintoul/tableau-xml-parse): Open-source utilities for parsing and analyzing Tableau XML.

## Areas of Expertise

- [Portfolio: AI Systems & Agentic Architectures](https://davidrintoul.info/): Enterprise AI delivery, agentic workflows, MCP integrations, RAG, local LLMs, and self-hosted infrastructure.
- [Portfolio: Governance & Safety](https://davidrintoul.info/): Cybersecurity, AI governance, risk management, and safety-critical operational leadership.
- [Portfolio: Product & Alliance Leadership](https://davidrintoul.info/): Product strategy, global alliances, partner ecosystems, and technology leadership.

## Contact

- [Email](mailto:drintoul+portfolio@gmail.com): Professional contact for David R. Rintoul.

## Personal Background

- [Personal Journey](https://davidrintoul.info/personal.html): David R. Rintoul's non-linear path from Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo through Siemens and Microsoft technology leadership, commercial diving and hyperbaric operations in Oregon, Texas, and Florida, analytics and data work, and a return to hands-on computing through AI. The page also describes an intern role in East Germany on one of the first East-West joint ventures shortly after the Berlin Wall fell, his move to British Columbia, an Antarctica-related dive-safety assignment, self-directed learning in analytics and AI, and ongoing study of German and Spanish.