// AI Developer & Builder

I build things
that think.

Developer focused on applied AI — building intelligent systems from the ground up, from fine-tuned language models to production-grade conversational agents.

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01 — About
Designing intelligence,
one model at a time.

I'm Shiyo — a self-taught AI developer with a hands-on approach to building. I don't just use AI tools; I build them from scratch. My work spans fine-tuning open-source LLMs, creating custom LoRA adapters, deploying GPU-accelerated inference pipelines and showing people the potential of AI.

Currently exploring the intersection of conversational AI and community platforms, with a focus on making locally-hosted models performant and personality-rich.

4+
AI Projects
LLM
Focused
Curiosity

Tech Stack

02 — Projects
Selected work.
001
In Progress
Allay-sama
Imagine a YouTube livestream with an AI as the host. AI has massively taken over the autonomous side of computers, from simple data algorithms to generative text — the goal is to push this further by creating an AI that gets as close to AGI as possible using today's tech, and proving it can be just as entertaining and charismatic as the average popular streamer.
Powered by a locally-hosted LLaMA 3.1-8B with a custom LoRA adapter, running on GCP with an NVIDIA L4 GPU. Continuous testing and debugging have shaped it into what it is now, and the work isn't stopping until it runs flawlessly.
Allay-sama Discord chatbot in action
System Architecture
LLaMA 3.1LoRAGCPNVIDIA L4Discord.pyMongoDBPythonTTS
002
Tooling
Dataset Pipeline
Automated data cleaning and profiling toolkit for preparing training datasets. Built with pandas, AutoClean, and ydata-profiling to handle messy real-world data at scale — deduplication, type inference, outlier removal, and quality reporting.
PythonpandasAutoCleanydata-profiling
003
In Progress
RL Game Agent
Training an AI with reinforcement learning to play games — starting with turn-based and strategic games like Inscryption, Liar's Bar, Buckshot Roulette, Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes, Uno, Monopoly, visual novels, and card games, then scaling up to larger open-world environments like Minecraft. The aim is building agents that can reason about hidden information, bluff, and adapt to unpredictable human opponents.
Minecraft RL training environment
Training environment
InscryptionLiar's BarBuckshot RouletteKTANEUnoMonopolyVisual NovelsCard GamesMinecraft
PythonPyTorchReinforcement LearningOpenAI GymStable-Baselines3Computer Vision
004
Live
日本語 Vocabulary
An interactive Japanese vocabulary study app covering 600+ core words across JLPT N5–N1 levels. Built for genuine fluency — not just memorisation. Features a custom romaji conversion engine, per-mora pronunciation breakdown, spaced-repetition flashcards, a 4-choice quiz, and a drag-and-drop sentence builder that scores you on 60+ real sentences.
Script toggles let you study in kanji, hiragana, or katakana — and switching between them animates the entire app's colour palette in real time. Progress and settings persist across sessions automatically.
ReactWeb Speech APIUnicode ConversionDrag & Drop APIPersistent StorageCSS Transitions
shiyo@gpu ~ nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name --format=csv,noheader
NVIDIA L4
shiyo@gpu ~ python -c "from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM; print('ready')"
ready
shiyo@gpu ~ python serve.py --model allay-sama --port 8080
✓ Model loaded. Inference server running on :8080
# another day, another model served.
03 — Contact
Let's build something.

Interested in collaborating on AI projects, or just want to chat about LLMs? Reach out.