✌︎㋡ hello 👋 i'm shadrackovsky timothy john, i am an aspiring ai - ml and software engineer from tanzania 🤓🇹🇿, doing web applications development, machine learning, retrieval-augmented generation, models fine-tuning and building systems around frontier ai models.
✌︎㋡ i didn't grow up with a computer in my room until my lovely grandmother in heaven bought me my first laptop (second-hand old elitebook) when i joined college.
✌︎㋡ i've built this journey fueled by tiring, long nights, insatiable curiosity, and a genuine love for understanding how things work and connected since i was a young boy.
✌︎㋡ i'm obsessed with karpathy, ilya, lecun, andrew ng, bengio, radford, ian goodfellow, alex krizhevsky, georgi gerganov.
| field | what i'm mastering right now |
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| genai & llms | fine-tuning (lora/qlora), rag systems, chroma vector db, hugging face |
| python & data | fastapi, pandas, numpy, pytorch, ai models and large dataset trainings |
| data engineering | sql, data cleaning, pipelining, api integration |
| cloud & devops | docker, kurbenetes, git |
| frontend | react, next, vite, tailwind css, shadcn-ui |
| backend | supabase, django, springboot |
| desktop applications | tauri, electron, pyqt, tkinter, rust |
| computational finance | quantitative modeling, algorithmic trading, risk analysis, portfolio optimization |
i'm a self taught software engineer, i watch tons of youtube or pirated tutorials and practise, practise to build new skills.
𖡎 i love to craft, build, develop fast software and clean, with unique taste interfaces that actually work. this is how i love to approach software development.
 m3 macbook pro 14" · 1tb |
 monitor lightbar lymax l1 plus |
 vertical stand vaydeer dock |
 360° stand multi-angle |
 anti-blue ray eye protection |
 neckband lenovo he05x |
 chessboard focus and strategic breaks |
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 microfiber screen cleaning |
 desk organizer mesh holder |
 logitech g213 keyboard |
 34" curved uhd monitor |
 wooden shelf desk shelf |
the broken wings kahlil gibran |
 island aldous huxley |
rubber duck debugging |
open for freelance contracts in ai/ml and web development, open-source ai collaborations, remote software engineering roles.
𖡎 we're bootstrapping swahili-lm with deepseek api by wrapping with prompt engineering tuned for tanzanian context.
𖡎 if you wanna build chat agents, you don't need to start from scratch. try bruno and re-use the component in your app.
🪐 shadrackovsky is also a co-creator of smarbo digital. smarbo digital is a web application that helps you track invitations, contributions and attendance for your event, in one simple dashboard.
🙌 the agrressive performance tuning is unmatched , instant access to any software that i want and btrfs has saved me from a lot of trouble.
🎷 chris stapleton |
🎸 morgan wallen |
🎧 luke combs |
🎻 jackson dean |
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⌛ ajira connect is a next.js-based talent management platform empowering tanzanian career seekers and transforming businesses.
⌛ it helps professionals build ai-enhanced cvs and cover letters, analyze skill gaps against job descriptions, and land jobs.
⌛ sauti connect. it's is a team of customer service agents who manage inbound and outbound calls in a central location or remotely.
⌛ pimafarm. it's a smart farming platform. think of pimafarm like a helper that watches your farm for you. it sees how your tractors and machines are working, and tells you simple things you can do to make things better.
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my coffee mug. |
i'm shadrackovsky, calm, deliberate, and quietly obsessive. i think in systems, i work in silence, and i let the work speak. i resonate very deeply with chinese culture in that: the discipline, the patience, the 书香 tradition of mastering your craft before announcing it, and the idea of 匠心 (jiàngxīn), an artisan's heart, building things with full attention and no shortcuts.
my creative workflow follows that spirit. i observe first, prototype fast, iterate relentlessly, and polish until it feels right. i keep a small desk, a rubber duck, a chessboard for strategic breaks, and long late-night sessions where ideas compound quietly. 巧者劳而智者忧. deep work over noise. finish over talk.
🐉 and yes, i am genuinely obsessed with chinese ai, chinese models, chinese tools and chinese open source. this is not a phase, it's a conviction:
- deepseek (深度求索) my main api. open weights, brutal efficiency, honest research. my swahili-lm and malaika are bootstrapped on it. deepseek-v3 and r1 proved that open source can stand at the frontier.
- qwen (通义千问) the most complete open model family on the planet, and qwencode is my daily terminal coding agent.
- xiaomi mimo small, sharp, free. proof that focus beats bloat.
- zhipu glm, minimax, yi, bge embeddings, chatglm the chinese open-source ecosystem is where i keep finding models that respect my gpu and my wallet.
- hugging face chinese orgs (opengvlab, openbmb, modelscope) open weights, open architecture reports, open philosophy.
why china? because they ship. they publish the weights, publish the tech reports, and undercut the closed labs. for a self-taught engineer in tanzania bootstrapping everything from scratch, chinese open source ai is the great equalizer. 智者顺时而谋. it let me pre-train swahili-gpt from scratch, fine-tune lora/qlora models, and build real systems without permission or a big budget.
my stack of preference: deepseek models + opencode / qwen code / kilocode / mimo code agents + linux. if there's a chinese open-source alternative for something, i'm trying it first. 「工欲善其事，必先利其器」 to do the work well, first sharpen the tools.
💻 tools that i prefer are deepseek, opencode, qwencode, kilocode, mimocode cli's or anything chinese. (deepseek api billing).
