Full-stack developer in Toronto. I build web platforms, write engine code in C++, run my own infrastructure, and spend a lot of time tinkering and making AI tooling do real work.
๐ผ Currently a Freelance Software Developer and a CS tutor on Varsity Tutors.
๐ Pursuing CCNA Certification for Network Engineering & Security.
- ๐ฎ Satori Engine: Real-time 3D engine in C++23 on Vulkan. Render graph, GPU-driven two-phase culling, visibility buffer, shadows and sky; archetype ECS with scenes and prefabs; Jolt physics; input record/replay; offline glTF asset cooker; Slang shaders; Dear ImGui dev overlay.
- โฆ๏ธ PersianOrthodox: Bilingual English/Persian Orthodox Christian web platform. Next.js frontend, Django backend, deployed on DigitalOcean.
- ๐ Quant trading system: Self-hosted research and backtesting platform on LEAN/QuantRocket, with a multi-agent loop (observer, hypothesis generator, backtest critic) for continuous strategy development.
- ๐ฅ๏ธ Homelab: Segmented network on Cisco 3750/2900-series gear behind a firewall, with VLANs per trust zone. Proxmox, TrueNAS, Caddy, Pi-hole, Tailscale, and a local LLM stack (Ollama + AnythingLLM) serving Qwen models across the network.
๐ป Languages: C++, Python, TypeScript, C, Java, SQL
๐จ Graphics: Vulkan, Slang, Dear ImGui
๐ Web: React, Next.js, Django
๐๏ธ Data: PostgreSQL, SQLite
๐๏ธ Infra: Docker, Linux, CMake, Proxmox, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, AWS, Git
๐ Networking: Cisco IOS, VLANs/STP/inter-VLAN routing
๐ง OS: Arch Linux
๐ Shell: Zsh
๐ Editor: Neovim
โ๏ธ contact.kiands@gmail.com



