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retr0-spection
“Turning coffee, code, and curiosity into reality at 60Hz.”
Welcome to my corner of the internet! I’m Oratile Nailana, a Computer Science + Computational Applications grad from the University of the Witwatersrand.
Currently, I’m a Data Scientist by day, problem-solver and digital tinkerer by night 🚀
- Full-stack Developer
Frontend: React/Remix · Backend: FastAPI, Node.js - AI & Data Science Enthusiast
Working on audio super-resolution with diffusion models - DevOps & Infra
Terraform, AWS, Fly.io, Docker – all that cloud jazz - Researcher
Honours student, one-step inference in latent token spaces
Languages: Python, JS/TS, C++, Java, SQL, Bash, PHP, Swift, Kotlin, C#
Frontend: React, Remix, Tailwind
Backend: FastAPI, Node.js, Express
DevOps: Terraform, Docker, AWS, EC2, S3, Fly.io
Databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB
AI/ML: PyTorch, Hugging Face, Diffusion Models, RAG- Tandem
Smart, collaborative project management tool with RAG and LLMs for workflow superpowers. - Circle
A minimalist social media app for meaningful, real connections. - Aurora
A RAG-powered AI assistant for teams to make better decisions from their internal knowledge. - Lumo
Ad platform for rideshare vehicles, using GSP auctions for optimal ad bidding. - Credit Card Fraud Detection
Machine learning on imbalanced datasets for real-world impact. - NeonCore
High-performance math library for ARM, built for speed and parallelism.
Find more in my pinned repos!
Audio Super Resolution via Latent Consistency Models
Distilling diffusion models into single-step predictors in tokenized latent space for real-time audio enhancement.
If you love AI, let’s chat!
- IBM Generative AI Foundations
- Cloud Computing Fundamentals
- Data Fundamentals
- Containers & Kubernetes Essentials
- Terraform on IBM Cloud
- Intro to Containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift
- 🌐 Portfolio/Website
- 🐦 Twitter/X
- 🧠 ArcticLabs – My research & product lab
- 🚘 I love cars and tech equally – you’ll find me under a hood or in Zed
- 🧮 Mathematics is my comfort zone
- 🕹️ I like my code like my games: retro, fast, and a little bit quirky
Thanks for stopping by – always open to connecting, collaborating, or just chatting about cool ideas!