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Matthew Oldach · Engineer & creative thinker

Curiosity,
put to work.

I turn software, data and AI into things people can understand, use, and enjoy.

Work with me Experience / CV

Independent projects. Practical thinking.AI consulting · Remote, worldwide ↗

01 / Selected work

Independent ideas.
Made tangible.

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Hinuhinu / Original terrain flyby

Interactive cartography · 2019

A different
point of view.

Bringing Hawaiian landscapes into a Shiny application—and adapting the experience to the realities of rendering and memory.

Explore the engineering decisions ↗

Original Shiny-filteRs application with a Voronoi-filtered portrait

Creative computation · 2019

Code, meet colour.

Shiny-filteRs. A mobile-oriented experiment in images, interfaces and languages.

PuttPulse concept: a disc-golf basket on mulch within a grassy circle marked by plastic whiskers

Product development · Concept illustration

Practice, with purpose.

PuttPulse. Disc golf practice product.

02 / A small experiment

Same world.
Different lens.

What happens when a neural network sees a city through the texture of a nebula?

Explore a result from my style-transfer experiment. Move between the original content and the transformed image, then read how the models were trained.

Inside the experiment ↗

Medium: Images & moving pictures
Tools: Python · TensorFlow · SLURM
Published: April 2019

Content image: riverside buildings reflected in the water — From the original 2019 experiment. Same content, a different visual language. Read the method and credits

Style-transfer output: the same buildings rendered in the colors and textures of a nebula — From the original 2019 experiment. Same content, a different visual language. Read the method and credits

03 / Work together

Good questions.
Useful next steps.

Practical AI consulting for small businesses.
Working remotely, wherever you are.

Opportunity assessment
Find the right problem.
A clear view of where AI could help, where it should not, and what is worth trying first.
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Workflow implementation
Build something useful.
One focused workflow, with clear boundaries, human review and a practical handover.
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Training & adoption
Make it part of the day.
Hands-on practice that helps your team use a new tool with confidence and judgment.
Explore

Building a team or exploring an idea together?

Meet the person behind the projects ↗

04 / Open notes

Follow a
train of thought.

All writing ↗

Original supervised UMAP embedding plot with coloured clusters

Dimensionality reduction · R · Python 2023

Curiosity,
put to work.