Nino Risteski
I’m a Founding ML Engineer at AIRecruitPro, an open-source contributor, and a self-taught builder who learns by creating things from the ground up. My work is at the intersection of AI systems, product engineering, and startups, where I focus on designing multimodal models, GPU-accelerated training, and ML infrastructure.
I’m driven by curiosity: how intelligence emerges, how systems improve, and how technology can help us understand the world better. I love building companies, solving hard problems, and turning ideas into real products that people use.
Outside of engineering, I’m learning every day how to be a good father, balancing growth, creativity, and purpose.
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Projects
METAL_SGEMM_M4
Metal compute shader experiments for SGEMM (4x4 tiles) that explore Apple GPU optimization and benchmarking.
CUDA_SGEMM_BUDGET_GPU
SGEMM optimization with CUDA on a budget GTX 1660 GPU.
TinyPilot
AI agent that helps you learn TinyGrad and keeps you updated on bounties, featuring RAG with ChromaDB and GPT integration.
HubermanAnswers
Ask Dr. Andrew Huberman questions and receive answers directly from his podcast episodes.
smart_screenshots
A tool that renames screenshots immediately based on the context in the screenshot.
Tinygrad
- optim empty shard #13513 (Dec 2025) — optimized empty shards so the distributed optimizer skips useless work.
- rope cache optim for jit prune in llm.py (Aug 2025) — cached ROPE calculations so the JIT prune path reuses angles instead of recomputing them.
- adding enable_gqa in SDPA (Jul 2025) — added PyTorch-style grouped query attention plus coverage.
- clean up unused imports in examples and update CI linting (Jun 2025) — cleaned unused imports and wired Ruff so examples stay linted.
- fix test logcumsumexp broken devectorize=0 (Jun 2025) — masked before `exp` and used dtype-aware sentinels to stop NaNs.
- small fix replacing download_file with fetch (Jun 2025) — swapped ad-hoc download glue with the canonical `fetch` helper.
Writing
Useful Stuff
- Job Application Strategy - Gabriel Peters on standing out with personalized demos
- Reading & Research - Mason Wang on effective reading and research strategies
- School is Not Enough - Simon Sarris on learning through doing and building agency
- Neural Networks: Zero to Hero - Andrej Karpathy
- Cursor Interview - Lex Fridman's conversation with the founding team of Cursor
- Hugging Face Courses - Learn ML and NLP
- Machines of Loving Grace - Dario Amodei on how AI could transform the world for the better
- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto - Marc Andreessen on why technology is the key to a better future