About // TECAA
One engineer, five fields
I'm Ahmed Marcolino Teca Kanadji. TECAA is my engineering studio: I take ideas that sit between fields, like a headset that hears, translates and reads hands, and build them until they work for real.
Background
- Based in
- Luanda, Angola
- Status
- Available for freelance projects
I studied engineering at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, and I now work from Luanda, Angola as TECAA, taking on freelance projects for clients anywhere.
My graduation project there was Extended Reality Interfaces for Speech Assistance in People with Non-Functional Hearing, a HoloLens 2 assistant for people with non-functional hearing, built with Hadiza Muhammed Avidime and Aiana Mederbek kyzy under Prof. Dr. Fabio Stroppa. I worked across the headset app and built MenKan, the translation engine inside it.
Alongside it I've shipped a cross-platform nutrition app (FitCal), a storefront on Cloudflare for a real brand (ZOA), industrial power monitoring tools, and a Character.AI-style chat platform with a team of four.
I like problems that don't fit in one field, and I like them finished. I start with the system: the pipeline, the data, the design tokens. I keep claims honest: a number on this site was measured, and team work names the team.
How I work
Measure it
MenKan's scores come with paired significance tests, not just BLEU, and the HoloLens 2 build of my graduation project was measured against WebXR on p95 frame time. If it matters, it gets a number.
Plan for the outage
FitCal fails over across three model providers, and the WAGO tools ship with simulated devices. The demo should work on the worst day, not the best one.
System before screens
ZOA had a design system of tokens and components before its first line of code. TECAA has one too; this site is built on it.
Toolbox
- XR
- Unity, C#, MRTK, AR Foundation, UWP, WebXR
- ML & NLP
- Python, PyTorch, PEFT (LoRA), CTranslate2, SentencePiece
- Mobile
- Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose Multiplatform, Swift, React Native (Expo)
- Web
- TypeScript, React, React Router, Next.js, Tailwind, FastAPI, Node, Java, Spring Boot
- Data & infra
- Postgres, MySQL, Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, D1, R2, Docker, Hugging Face Spaces
- Systems
- C++, Modbus, WebSockets