π Hi, I'm Ian
I build random stuff for fun, contribute to open source, and maintain React Native Elements
Recent Highlights
- π Won second place at the Cactus x Google DeepMind hackathon for our team's creation of cloudNein, a project that intelligently identified PII and encrypted it before routing any queries to on-cloud LLMs. We did a live demo of the web app and React Native mobile app during the finalists pitch round for the judges panel (which included folks from Google and other leading AI companies and VC firms in the Bay Area)
- π Won third place at the Cactus x Nothing x HuggingFace AI Mobile hackathon for creating an open protocol specification for shared AI memory on mobile
- π Launched NutriCue AI for Shipathon, a mobile hackathon, now live on App Store & coming soon to Google Play
Current Focus
- π οΈ Maintaining React Native Elements, a cross-platform UI toolkit with ~25.6k GitHub β and 58k+ weekly NPM downloads
- π± Building mobile + backend projects end-to-end & expanding full-stack skills (React, Node, Postgres)
- π» Prototyping mobile AI features using Cactus SDK and locally deployed text, vision, and speech models
π« Contact: caesiusbay@gmail.com