Portfolio

www.mindtricks.ai
MINDTRICKS.AI
Generative AI — LLM chat, research workflows, and product tooling.
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stuff.nicapotato.com
Software and Prototypes
Where I version and ship apps, games, and more — in the browser or as downloads for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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Kaggle
Data Science & ML Notebooks
Competition notebooks, deep learning experiments, and machine learning walkthroughs — EDA, feature engineering, mode selection, regression, categorical. Constrained optimization, Neural Networks, Traditional ML
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Itch.io
Indie games
Play in the browser or download builds — puzzles, RPGs, experiments, and more.
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Substack
Essays on AI & Technology
Reflections on artificial intelligence, consciousness, surveillance, and the future of human-computer interaction.
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Experience

Solopreneur — Mindtricks AI 2024–Present

  • Building a SaaS AI product at mindtricks.ai
  • Full-stack: React (Next.js), Python (FastAPI), Go (Gin), and AWS ECS Fargate behind ELB. Google OAuth
  • Chatbot, LangGraph agents, voice conversation, TTS, STT, and image generation
  • Background Jobs on AWS LAMBDA, PostgresDB, Pub Sub Notifications, Stripe Payment

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at CWT Jan 2020 – Dec 2024

  • Travel Industry, Product & Technology Division
  • Air Personalisation — Fast Scala Library to sort flights for travelers
  • Ticket Ranking Algorithm — relevance and ranking models for flight search results
  • Travel Support Chatbot — NLP chatbot for automated traveller support at scale — Lambda, DynamoDB, and SageMaker
  • Team Big Data Infrastructured: Terraform, Spark EMR, S3, Jenkins. Github VC

Indie Game Developer Since 2023

  • 2D games built with Raylib in C — published at nicapotato.itch.io
  • Puzzle games, math games, RPG games
  • Multiplayer networking and real-time game systems

Data Scientist at Collinson 2018–2020

  • Central Services, Data Products, Data Science & Engineering
  • Price Optimisation, Fraud Detection, Product Recommendation, Data Lake, and Metrics Analytics
  • Python, AWS, Data Engineering, APIs, Full-Stack

Games