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OriginalByteMe/README.md
Animated terminal: an ASCII guy with a big afro codes on a laptop beside a steaming coffee. Next to him: Noah Rijkaard, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Senior AI Engineer @ MerchantSpring. Rails, Python and TypeScript, full-stack. Self-hosting everything on Proxmox + Unraid. CAD and 3D printing on the side @ Bowiq. Built a portfolio that writes its own websites.

Portfolio: noahrijkaard.com LinkedIn Blog Email daily.dev

Ask my portfolio anything at noahrijkaard.com and it builds you a whole website to answer it.
I had a dream where I woke up one morning and had a whole day without any compilation errors...

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neofetch-style card with an ASCII afro head. Role: Senior AI Engineer @ MerchantSpring. Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Stack: Ruby on Rails, Python, TypeScript. Homelab: Proxmox + Unraid. Side quest: CAD and 3D printing @ Bowiq. Plus live GitHub stats: repos, stars, commits, pull requests, followers and top languages.

How I got here

Career as a git graph. 2016: git init, joined GitHub. 2020 to 2025: Full-Stack Developer at Supa (formerly Supahands), building data-labeling and AI training-data tooling end to end and shipping the open-source LLM Comparison app. 2023 to now, on a side branch: CAD Designer and 3D Printing Engineer at Bowiq. 2026 to now, HEAD: Senior AI Engineer at MerchantSpring, building marketplace analytics for e-commerce sellers and agencies.

I have a particular set of skills...

Git, Kubernetes, Docker, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind, Ruby, Rails, Python, Node.js, AWS, Terraform, Bash, Cloudflare, Linux, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, SQLite, MongoDB

Things I've built

Ask-Me Portfolio: ask anything and an LLM builds a whole website to answer it. LLM Comparison: open-source app that pits two LLMs against each other, head to head. AI Image Cutout Maker: cuts people and objects out of images as stickers with Segment Anything. Moodify: search a tune and its album cover's colour palette takes over the page. The Obsidian Brain MCP: MCP server that lets an LLM search and organise your Obsidian vault. kobodash: turn a Kobo e-reader into a wireless e-ink dashboard.

Contributions, eaten daily by a snake

A snake eating my GitHub contribution graph

Elsewhere

Noah Rijkaard's daily.dev Dev Card Random dev quote

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  1. OriginalByteMe OriginalByteMe Public

    It's me! Well my portfolio website and showcase, but all me!

    TypeScript

  2. AI-cutout-maker AI-cutout-maker Public

    This is the front-end webpage for the AI image cutout generator, the BE for this repo can be found here: https://github.com/OriginalByteMe/AI_Image_cutout_maker

    TypeScript 1

  3. AI_Image_cutout_maker AI_Image_cutout_maker Public

    AI Image Cutout Maker is a project that uses artificial intelligence to automatically create cutouts from images. This project is designed to simplify the process of creating cutouts, which can be …

    Jupyter Notebook 7

  4. Simulating-Artificial-Life-Game-FYP Simulating-Artificial-Life-Game-FYP Public

    This is my final year project, a game built in unity incorporating the scientific concepts of artificial life such as Conways game of Life and Boids to create a game allowing players to interact di…

    C# 1

  5. Moodify Moodify Public

    Search your favorite tune and have its cover image's colour palette be reflected in the background!

    TypeScript

  6. My-Brain My-Brain Public

    This is my brain, it is where I create applications to help me gather my thoughts and also research new ones! My goal is to organize my brain!

    Python