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AI engineer, New York City. builds things with AI. ships them.

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Hey, I'm Rayid. I build things with AI and ship them. Full-stack when I have to be.

Currently an AI engineer by day, and a founder shipping an iPhone app by night.

Otherwise exploring the city or reading. Occasionally both.

github.com/rayidali ↗ linkedin.com/in/rayidali ↗ résumé.pdf ↗
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ships things.
drinks too much coffee.
answers email fast.
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still my favourite machine
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how I work

the whole story, one drawing
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idea build it ship it listen to users usually at 1am alone, end to end to real people then back to the top repeat until it's good (the 1am part is not a joke)
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self assessed, honestly.
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MS, Computer Science
Clemson University · 2024
research with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, multi agent RL
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my projects

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iphone + web

Cinechrony

Keep the films you find scrolling. Share a reel to it and it pulls out every film, keeps it, and puts it on a list you share with friends. Built solo, web and native iOS.

NEXT.JS · SWIFT · CAPACITOR · POSTGRES
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source on github

iEdit

An AI video editor that lives in iMessage. Text it clips and a vibe; it picks the cut, the music, the overlays and the grade, then texts the video back.

TYPESCRIPT · CLAUDE · SHOTSTACK · IMESSAGE
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open source

pdf2video

A research paper goes in. A narrated, animated video presentation comes out. For people who would rather watch the paper than read it.

PYTHON · LLM PIPELINE · TTS · FFMPEG
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JPAGRAGENSLUTKOERYRPFSWIFTUSVAIXYAZBOXSMTTPOMTSMMDPVMGEHSBHTGCGOFSRNDKUOABSHIPQESDATNPESDLULSOACGUIREACTMERNYCVERCELVICLAUDELULPDD
find the stack hidden in the box.
hover a word and it lights up.
pythonswiftshipnycgraphvercelclaudetensorreactfastapipostgresragsqlios
yes, "sleep" is not in there.
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on paper

the one with the reviewers
PEER REVIEWED
NEWS!!!
IEEE ICETCI · 2022Vol. 1 · No. 1 · price: one citation
fig. 1 similarity between nodes → what to recommend next
fig. 1: the graph does the recommending

Leveraging Network Similarity Measures for Recommendation Systems

R. Ali. Product co-purchase data modeled as a graph, with node similarity measures from network science used to generate recommendations.

Started as a complex networks course project on Amazon data. Ended up at a conference. Still the reason I think in graphs.

read on IEEE Xplore ↗
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▶ Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel García Márquez · ch. 03 of 06
⏮ ⏸ ⏭128 kbps · stereo
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building ......... cinechrony v2
reading .......... see left
walking .......... until the phone dies
coffee ........... critical
loading next thing...
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say hello

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