Markham, Ontario, Canada

AnishPaleja

I build things that think.

Student innovator working at the intersection of AI, robotics, and infrastructure - turning ideas into systems that work.

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Selected Work

Systems worth shipping.

Infrastructure / Security

nginx-defender

An enterprise-grade web application firewall and real-time threat detection system. Monitors nginx logs, detects brute force attacks and abusive IPs using ML-based anomaly detection, and automatically blocks offenders via iptables/ufw - with zero reliance on external services. Supports multi-channel alerting (Telegram, Slack, Email, Discord), Kubernetes deployment, and a real-time web dashboard. 72 GitHub stars.

Go, Docker, Kubernetes, iptables/nftables

GoDockerKubernetesiptablesSecurity

AI / Machine Learning

iLLuMinator 4.9B

A transformer-based language model trained from scratch at 4.9 billion parameters. Implements Grouped Query Attention, Rotary Position Embeddings, SwiGLU activations, and RMSNorm. Includes integrated RAG capabilities for intelligent Q&A, custom tokenizer, and multi-scale model configs (120M to 4.9B). Available on Hugging Face.

Python, PyTorch, Transformers, RAG, FAISS

PythonPyTorchTransformersLLMRAG

Robotics / Hardware

Robotic AI Arm

An AI-powered robotic arm controlled by electromyography (EMG) signals from MyoWare muscle sensors. Uses OpenCV to detect hand gestures and mirror them in real time. Recognizes individual users for personalized responses. Built on a Raspberry Pi 4 with MG-995 servo motors, custom PCB, and a 3D-printed arm structure.

Python, Raspberry Pi, OpenCV, EMG Sensors, RPi.GPIO

PythonRaspberry PiEMGOpenCVRobotics

Machine Learning / Sports Analytics

NHL Outcome Predictor

Predicts NHL game outcomes using custom ML and deep learning architectures. Features full data preprocessing pipelines, label encoding, feature scaling, model evaluation, and a custom neural network built for game prediction.

Python, Neural Networks, Scikit-learn

PythonMachine LearningNeural NetworksSports Analytics

Startup / Web

Vivirion

Senior Full Stack SWE and actively building Vivirion - a platform currently in active development.

Startup / Web

StartupWebProduct

AI / Biotech Startup

BioBuddy AI

Co-founder of BioBuddy AI, an organization building AI-powered tools for biology and health applications.

AI / Biotech Startup

AIBiotechStartup

About

Building at the edges.

I'm a student developer from Markham, Ontario obsessed with building things that sit at the edges of what's possible. I work across the full stack of intelligence - from training transformer-based language models at the 4.9B parameter scale, to writing Go-based security tooling that watches over web infrastructure, to wiring EMG sensors into robotic arms that respond to actual muscle signals. I care about building systems that are not just functional, but genuinely useful to real people. I'm a senior fullstack developer at vivirion solutions, a co-founder at BioBuddy AI, hackathon organizer, and an active contributor to open source projects. I publish my thinking on Medium and share my models on Hugging Face. What drives me isn't the tech itself - it's the moment a system does something that surprises even the person who built it.

Currently

  • - Building LLMs and neural networks from scratch
  • - Developing EMG-based prosthetic robotics
  • - Co-founding BioBuddy AI
  • - Sr full stack swe at vivirion

AI & ML

PyTorchTransformersRAGFAISSNeural NetworksScikit-learnLLM TrainingComputer Vision (OpenCV)Data PreprocessingReinforcement Learning

Systems & Infrastructure

GoDockerKubernetesiptablesnftablesLinuxNginxREST APIsReactNext JSJupyter NotebookTailwind CSSBootStrapTensorFlowPytorchScikit-LearnTransformersNumPyPandasNode.jsFlaskDjangoFlutterSwiftUILangchainGithub Actions

Languages

PythonGoTypeScriptJavaScriptShellCC++CSSC#HTMLPHPJavaScriptJavaPythonGolangRScalaLaTeXSwiftDartBashShellGLSLMetalSQLNoSQLGraphQLRubik_StormRuby

Hardware & Robotics

Raspberry PiEMG SensorsServo MotorsGPIOPCB Design3D Printing

Web

Next.jsReactNode.js

What I'm Working On

Shipping in public, one commit at a time.

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Writing

Notes from the frontier.

Contact

Let's build something worth building.

I'm always open to interesting problems, collaborations, and conversations. If you're building something ambitious, let's talk.

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Anish Paleja - Markham, Ontario, Canada