Projects
Defence technology, homelab infrastructure, web development, games, and applications, 43 projects total.
Portfolio map (43 projects across 5 sections)
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ALL["43 Projects"] --> DEF["Defence and Sovereignty Tech\n18"]
ALL --> INF["Homelab and Infrastructure\n14"]
ALL --> WEB["Web Development\n7"]
ALL --> GAM["Games\n1"]
ALL --> APP["Applications\n3"]
DEF --> DEFH["11 hardware builds\nsky, water, ground, airspace"]
DEF --> DEFS["6 software builds\ndigital twin, DevOps, fusion,\nblack box, supply chain, LENTUS"]
DEF --> DEFHUB["Program hub"]
INF --> INFK["Kubernetes cluster\n7 nodes, 9 services"]
INF --> INFP["Proxmox zero-trust cloud\nself-hosted services"]
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Defence & Sovereignty Tech
182026 · Hardware · Program Hub
Canadian Defence Hardware Program
Eleven hands-on hardware builds across sky, water, and ground, each mapped to a stated DDI or MINERVA requirement, with full BOMs, prices, step-by-step guides, and bench photos.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
Sky: Passive Aerial Early-Warning Node
Receive-only passive radar on a KrakenSDR 5-channel coherent SDR: FM/TV reflections off aircraft, range-Doppler processing with pyAPRiL, scored against an RTL-SDR ADS-B ground-truth receiver.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
Water: Passive Acoustic Vessel Monitor
Solar-powered hydrophone node classifying passing vessels from underwater sound, with an RTL-SDR AIS receiver as ground truth and a dock-to-recharge extension.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
Ground: Seismic & Acoustic Perimeter Mesh
Solar 915 MHz LoRa mesh of ESP32 nodes with ADXL355 accelerometers and geophones, classifying vehicles vs footsteps vs wind at the edge and reporting signed detections.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
GPS-Denied Navigation Rover
ROS 2 rover fusing wheel odometry, BNO085 IMU, and 2D LiDAR with an Extended Kalman Filter; GNSS gets switched off and position drift is measured against a u-blox ground-truth track.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
Convoy-Following Robots on a Degraded Mesh
Two rovers convoy behind a lead vehicle over a 915 MHz LoRa / Wi-Fi mesh, hold formation through induced link drops, and recover on reconnect, the resupply-convoy DDIL problem at bench scale.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
Passive Acoustic Drone Detector
MEMS microphone array on a Raspberry Pi detecting rotor harmonics, rejecting birds and aircraft, and estimating direction of arrival by beamforming, emits nothing, only detects.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
Thermal Search-and-Rescue Drone
X500-class quadcopter with a FLIR Lepton thermal camera and Hailo AI HAT+ edge detection finding people in snow and brush, pushing georeferenced detections to a live map.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
Cold-Soak Battery Characterization Rig
Heated, instrumented drone battery bay tested in a lab freezer and real Canadian winter, runtime, voltage sag, and failure modes logged against temperature as a published dataset.
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2026 · Hardware · In Progress
Secure Robot-Fleet Updates
Secure boot, TPM 2.0 measured boot, YubiKey-signed OTA updates, and automatic A/B rollback for the robot fleet, validated in a cold chamber and under power-cut chaos tests.
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2026 · Hardware · Simulation
Mini Airspace Deconfliction Manager
ESP32 tracker beacons plus ArduPilot SITL simulated drones, dynamic 3D geofences, predicted-conflict alerts, and a human-in-the-loop override for every resolution.
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2026 · Software + Hardware · In Progress
Multi-Domain Common Operating Picture
The fusion layer: nodes publish signed detections over MQTT/Zenoh, buffer through dead links, a Kalman-filter tracker fuses air, water, and ground tracks, and a human makes every decision. Chaos-tested.
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2026 · In Progress
Arctic Domain Awareness Digital Twin
Streaming pipeline fusing open ADS-B aircraft data, AIS ship tracking, and Sentinel-1 radar imagery over Canada's North, flagging dark vessels and route deviations.
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2026 · In Progress
DDIL-Proof DevOps
CI/CD and telemetry that keep working through denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited links: store-and-forward, delta updates, signed artifacts, k3s edge nodes, chaos-tested with tc netem.
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2026 · In Progress · Simulation
Counter-Drone Sensor Fusion Simulator
Synthetic radar, RF, acoustic, and camera tracks fused with Kalman filters, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop alert triage. Defensive, simulation only.
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2026 · In Progress
Decision Black Box
Tamper-evident audit layer for human-in-the-loop decisions: hash-chained signed append-only log, replay tool, and OPA policy-as-code checks.
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2026 · In Progress
Zero-Trust Air-Gapped Software Supply Chain
SBOM, sigstore signing, and reproducible builds moved across a simulated one-way transfer into an offline registry, mapped to Canadian Centre for Cyber Security guidance.
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2026 · In Progress · Simulation
Operation LENTUS-Style Disaster Response Drone Mapping
Simulated drone flights mapping floods and wildfires, edge computer vision detecting affected areas, and a live situational-awareness map, with OR-Tools route optimization.
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Homelab & Infrastructure
142026 · Open Source
Chakor, Self-Hosted AI Workspace
Open-source AI workspace you run yourself. Local and cloud models, web search, document chat, model compare, notes, and memory, all private on your hardware.
2025 to 2026 · On-Premises Cluster
Kubernetes Infrastructure
Production-grade multi-node K8s cluster across 7 VM nodes on Proxmox hosts, with VLAN segmentation, Calico CNI, MetalLB, Longhorn storage, and Prometheus + Grafana observability.
2026 · ai.tyfsadik.org
TYF-AI (private AI, Ollama)
Self-hosted LLM with integrated web search. Full data privacy, no cloud subscription.
2026 · Security
TYF-AI, Self-Hosted Local AI Security Platform
Hardened local AI inference: llama.cpp with CUDA, Open WebUI behind authenticated Caddy proxy, per-model Firejail sandboxing, and GPU passthrough on Proxmox.
2025 to 2026 · Zero Trust
Proxmox VE Zero-Trust Private Cloud
3-node Proxmox HA cluster with Ceph, VLAN segmentation, and zero public ingress via Cloudflare Tunnel with Tailscale fallback and automated ZFS snapshots.
2025 to 2026 · Privacy
Data Sovereignty & Secure Media Stack
Self-hosted Nextcloud + Immich on BTRFS external SSDs with multi-user ACL isolation and a 3-2-1 offsite backup pipeline to BorgBase and rsync.net.
2025 · GitHub
Proxmox Homelab
Full virtualization infrastructure for testing servers, VMs, containers, and network configs.
2025 · GitHub
Self-Hosted DNS
Network-wide ad/tracker blocking with Pi-hole and recursive DNS resolution via Unbound.
2025 · GitHub
Private Email Server
Self-hosted SMTP/IMAP with Postfix + Dovecot on custom domain @tyfsadik.org.
2025 · cloud.tyfsadik.org
Self-Hosted Cloud Storage
Private Nextcloud instance replacing Google Drive. Syncs files across all devices.
2025 · photo.tyfsadik.org
Immich (photo server)
Personal photo management with ML face recognition and mobile auto-backup.
2024 · search.tyfsadik.org
Public Search Engine
Privacy-respecting search engine aggregating results from multiple sources without tracking.
2024 · wiki.tyfsadik.org
Kiwix (wiki mirror)
Full Wikipedia mirror accessible to users in countries with restricted internet access.
2025 · GitHub ★ 5 Stars
Arch Linux Remote Desktop via WSL2
Full Arch Linux + XFCE remote desktop through WSL2 without router port forwarding changes.
Web Development
72023 · GitHub ★ 4 Stars
HomeBound Aisha
Business website for a home-based service provider. Responsive, client-delivered.
2023
GTA High Glass
Website for a glass and glazing company in the Greater Toronto Area.
2023
Hakimi Fruits
Online presence for a fruit and produce business with product listings.
2023
Faiaz Shisha
Multi-page website for a shisha lounge with flavour menu and booking info.
2026
Pharmacy Website
Medical/pharmacy website with product listings and service information.
2022
Birthday Project
Interactive birthday celebration page with CSS animations and JavaScript effects.
2022 to 2024
Practice Apps
TypeScript and web development practice projects (app_2_kimi, heda1, heda2).
Applications
32023
GateArch
Student portal and admin system with course management and user authentication.
2023
TaxGlobe
Web application for calculating taxes across different jurisdictions with clear breakdowns.
2023
Wonder Learning
E-learning platform with course listings, video embeds, and educational interface.