ML Engineer · London

Building things
at the edge of language
and machine.

MSc AI student at Queen Mary University of London, specialising in speech and language processing. I build products that make language accessible — currently Arday, an English learning app for Somali speakers.

arday-nine.vercel.app ↗·GitHub·LinkedIn·CV

Work

App · Live beta

Arday

English learning app for Somali speakers. Lesson-based curriculum with TTS audio, spaced repetition, and gamification.

GPT-4oNext.jsWhisper
iOS · SwiftUI

TimeBudget

Personal dashboard aggregating HealthKit, AniList, LeetCode, Pocket Casts, and EventKit into one view.

SwiftUIHealthKitEventKit
Automation · Live

WARARKA

Automated Somali news pipeline. Fetches RSS feeds, deduplicates stories with AI, renders graphics, and posts to Instagram and Facebook every 2 hours.

RemotionGeminiMeta API
Automation · Live

Arday Social

Daily Word of the Day content pipeline for Arday. Renders bilingual vocabulary cards and auto-posts 6 times daily across Instagram and Facebook.

RemotionGitHub ActionsMeta API

Writing

Why I chose GPT-4o for Somali-English translationApr 2025What Duolingo’s path to profit taught me about ArdayMar 2025My QMUL MSc prep: 200 hours before SeptemberMar 2025Logging Apple Health walks to Google Calendar automaticallyFeb 2025
Now — April 2025

Preparing for MSc AI at QMUL starting September, working through Jurafsky & Martin and Stanford CS224N. Building out Arday's TTS layer so every English sentence has audio. Tracking my 5K training on Apple Watch, chasing a VO2 max improvement before summer.