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HMUNACHI/README.md

Henry Ndubuaku

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BEng EECS -> MSc AI -> ML Software Engineer -> AI Research Engineer -> Building cactus, an Open-Source framework for running SOTA LLMs, VLMs and TTS models on mobile phones & wearables. Backed by YCombinator, Oxford Seed Fund and Google for Startups.

Core Expertise

Maths Computing Deep Learning Reinforcement Learning Multimodal AI Distributed ML Hardware-Aware AI Realtime Edge AI

Engineering Expertise

Python C++ Go Rust PyTorch JAX TensorFlow CUDA Metal Cloud

Career Progression

  • 2025-Present: Cactus Compute (YC S25) - Founder
  • 2024-25: Deep Render - AI Research Engineer (Hardware-Aware models for realtime video codec).
  • 2021-24: Wisdm - ML Software Engineer (Perception AI for Maxar Defence satelite imagery).
  • 2019-21: Open-source activities during MSc (NanoDl, SuperLazyLLM, CUDARepo, etc.).
  • 2018-19: Google Africa Developer Scholarship Programme with Andela (pre-MSc).
  • 2017-18: Military service, posted to software engineering after bootcamp.
  • 2013-17: Uni coursework in computing, electronics, data structures, algorithms, maths, physics.

Fun Highlights

  • I wrote Math For ML (with codes).
  • I gave this lecture to a small ML group in Nigeria, on optimising large-scale ML in JAX.
  • I co-host this monthly dinner for AI researchers, engineers and founders in London.
  • Kevin Murphy (DeepMind Principal), Daniel Holtz (Mid Journey Founder), Steve Messina (IBM CTO) followed back on X.
  • After CUDARepo, Nvidia reached out, I did 7 technical rounds, got a verbal offer, back-and-forth over YOE/pay, then I got YC.
  • Did MSc at QMUL, just to work with Prof Matt Purver (Ex-Stanford Researcher on CALO), did my project/thesis with his team.
  • Did BEng under Prof Onyema Uzoamaka (Rumoured first Nigerian CS grad from MIT), he taught computing archs off-head!

Future PhD Interests

  • Building realtime ML models directly into FGPAs for one of the following:
    • Multimodal EEG-to-Instruction AI for Brain-Machine Interfaces
    • Multimodal World Models for phones, drones, VR headsets, medical devices etc.

Blog Posts

Life Principles

  • When the talented fail to work hard, the hardworking beat the talented.
  • Everything should be an adventure, not a race, everyone gets their moment someday.
  • Make the best of your situation, complaining and pointing fingers do nothing.
  • It often takes 120% effort, focus and passion, failure often results from giving less.

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  1. cactus-compute/cactus Public

    Framework for running AI locally on mobile devices and wearables. Hardware-aware C/C++ backend with wrappers for Flutter & React Native. Kotlin & Swift coming soon.

    C++ 903 50

  2. nanodl Public

    A Jax-based library for building transformers, includes implementations of GPT, Gemma, LlaMa, Mixtral, Whisper, SWin, ViT and more.

    Python 287 11

  3. cuda-tutorials Public

    CUDA tutorials for Maths & ML tutorials with examples, covers multi-gpus, fused attention, winograd convolution, reinforcement learning.

    Cuda 182 5

  4. super-lazy-autograd Public

    Hand-derived memory-efficient super lazy PyTorch VJPs for training LLMs on laptop, all using one op (bundled scaled matmuls).

    Python 59 1

  5. pete Public

    Parameter-efficient transformer embeddings replace learned embeddings with hardware-aware polynomial expansions of token IDs.

    Python 7

  6. tango Public

    Decentralised ML engine, where tiny edge devices like smart watches, phones, VR headsets, game consoles etc., could contribute.

    Go 1