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I'm Shak.

I'm a 19 y.o. software engineer based in Toronto, working at Twitter. I graduated high school at 15 and started dental school, but during the pandemic picked up programming and decided I preferred it to dentistry. This site highlights a number of projects I've worked on, as well as some interests I carry including essays and books.

Some Achievements

  • Attended dental school at 15

  • Self taught software engineer, working full time since 16

  • Created internal systems and websites for a search engine

  • Created CRA and IRS compliant charity website and internal systems

  • Created retail trading research platforms, news systems, and more

Ideas

I'm really interested in ideas around the following topics. If you have any particular insight into any of these, please ask for my cell on Twitter or Instagram.

  • Longevity/living longer or forever

  • Anarchy, especially related to crypto/nation collapse as a result of loss of central bank dominated economies

  • Singularity/AI outcomes

  • Research around taboo gene concepts, like temperment/race

  • Neurology & avoiding intelligence crystallization

Formal Education

  • Computer Science & Physics (September 2022 - April 2023)

  • Dentistry (BDS). February 2020-July 2020

Notable Projects

Some public projects I've worked heavily on. Private codebases are not shown, which is quite unfortunate given I do most my work in them.

Supabase
typescript
Open source Firebase alternative. This allows you to setup a backend for your application/website in minutes, including a database, authentication, image storage, and more. Joined at seed, stayed through 30MM Series A.
Kinship Canada
typescript
A CRA-compliant charitable website. Includes the ability to make donations, a custom billing system, a dashboard where donors can track donations and download tax reciepts. Can generate receipts, logs user actions, and generates comprehensive reports.
ScienceIO NodeJS SDK
typescript
Typescript and Node SDK for ScienceIO. Alternative to their Python SDK. ScienceIO lets you get UMLS-labelled data about all medical concepts in a piece of text.
Condition Researcherscala
Open source website that allows you to enter a medical condition and get back the latest research, treatments, and common knowledge about the condition. In development.
Bitcoin RPC API
python
Software built on top of a Bitcoin node that allows you to build a hosted wallet service. Running this allows users to connect to your node, create and delete wallets, and make transactions.
Atlas Dashboard
javascript
Research dashboard traders can use to research biotech stocks. Includes the ability to track news, look up realtime price data and charts, and create alerts for news events (e.g. FDA drug approvals)
Delivr Mail
python
Open source Sendgrid alternative. This lets you send mail with just an API key. Super basic email system that allows batching, open-tracking, etc, built off Postfix. Written in Python.
EssaysBookshelfInteresting StuffTwitter
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