Q4 2025 Action Plan

Autumn 2025 Portfolio Update

Phase 1: Make Repositories Public

Add proper licensing `AGPL-3.0` to projects repositories

Make Pomobit and JSONT projects repositories public

Add proper README to projects repositories

Add repositories to the projects page

Phase 2: Portfolio SEO & Stories

Add portfolio to search engines (submit sitemap, etc.)

Add all proper metadata for SEO

Ensure pages are suitable for SEO

Remove unwanted pages from indexing

Update stories page with whole new design and new page

Phase 3: CV & Credentials

Add all published research with title, abstract, link, and thumbnail

Add diploma with PDF/image and badge if possible

Design CV page and downloadable PDF

Highlight CV sections: education, experience, projects, research, skills

SyntaxBox Atlas Project

Concept & Planning

Create the concept idea and define all features

Design the site structure (home, case studies, glossary, about, contribute)

Development

Build the MVP (layouts, components, navigation, dark mode)

Integrate a CMS or markdown system for content

Add SEO basics (titles, meta tags, sitemap, Open Graph)

Deployment

Deploy the MVP to hosting with a custom domain

Test the site on mobile and desktop

Content

Write and post 5 case studies with diagrams

Add About and Contribute pages

Launch

Do a soft launch (share with friends/peers for feedback)

Fix issues from feedback (clarity, design, navigation)

Publish the site officially

Promotion

Share the case studies on LinkedIn, Reddit, Hacker News, and dev groups

Plan the next batch of case studies to publish regularly

Deep Learning - D2L Book Continuation

12. Optimization Algorithms

Optimization Basics

Convexity

Gradient Descent

Stochastic Gradient Descent

Mini-batch SGD

Momentum

Adagrad

RMSProp

Adadelta

Adam

Learning Rate Scheduling

13. Computational Performance

Compilers and Interpreters

Asynchronous Computation

Automatic Parallelism

Hardware

Training on Multiple GPUs

Concise Multi-GPU Training

Parameter Servers

14. Computer Vision

Image Augmentation

Fine-Tuning

Object Detection & Bounding Boxes

Anchor Boxes

Multiscale Object Detection

Object Detection Dataset

SSD

R-CNNs

Semantic Segmentation

Transposed Convolution

Fully Convolutional Networks

Neural Style Transfer

Image Classification on Kaggle

Dog Breed Identification on Kaggle

15. NLP: Pretraining

Word Embedding (word2vec)

Approximate Training

Dataset for Pretraining Word Embeddings

Pretraining word2vec

GloVe

Subword Embedding

Word Similarity & Analogy

BERT Basics

Dataset for Pretraining BERT

Pretraining BERT

16. NLP: Applications

Sentiment Analysis Dataset

Sentiment Analysis with RNNs

Sentiment Analysis with CNNs

Natural Language Inference Dataset

NLI with Attention

Fine-Tuning BERT for Applications

NLI Fine-Tuning with BERT

17. Reinforcement Learning

Markov Decision Process

Value Iteration

Q-Learning

18. Gaussian Processes

Introduction

GP Priors

GP Inference

19. Hyperparameter Optimization

HPO Basics

HPO API

Asynchronous Random Search

Multi-Fidelity HPO

Asynchronous Successive Halving

20. GANs

GAN Basics

DCGAN

21. Recommender Systems

Overview of Recommender Systems

Global Tech Entrepreneurship

Stage 0: Founder's Mindset & Global Vision

Watch 'How to Start a Startup' (YC Course ≈16 Hours)

Read Paul Graham's essays (Do Things that Don't Scale, Startup = Growth, etc.)

Read or listen to 'The Lean Startup' summary

Listen to selected 'How I Built This' episodes (Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe, etc.)

Read a summary of 'Zero to One' by Peter Thiel

Watch founder interviews from outside the US (Africa, LatAm, SE Asia)

Journal prompt: 'What global problem do I want to solve?'

Stage 1: Startup Fundamentals with a Tech Angle

Learn Business Model Canvas & Lean Canvas (adapted for SaaS/products)

Take Y Combinator Startup School (free online program)

Study startup metrics: CAC, LTV, churn, retention, virality

Read summaries: 'Rework' (Basecamp), 'The $100 Startup'

Practice: Draft Lean Canvas for 2–3 startup ideas and get feedback

Stage 2: Global Product Building & Tools

Explore no-code & low-code tools (Bubble, Webflow, Notion, Airtable)

Learn basics of product design & UX (Figma tutorials, Refactoring UI book)

Study developer-focused products (APIs, SaaS, open-source monetization)

Explore Product Hunt & IndieHackers to see what global tools succeed

Refresh web fundamentals (freeCodeCamp HTML/CSS/JS basics if needed)

Practice: Build a tiny MVP (landing page, prototype, automation)

Collect feedback from 5–10 potential users

Stage 3: Distribution, Growth & Global Reach

Take HubSpot Inbound Marketing (free certification)

Read 'The Mom Test' (customer interviews & validation)

Study SaaS growth hacks: freemium, viral loops, SEO-driven growth

Learn sales funnels, onboarding, retention strategies

Follow growth blogs/newsletters (Andrew Chen, Lenny Rachitsky, First Round Review)

Study global growth stories (ByteDance, Grab, Mercado Libre)

Practice: Run a small marketing experiment (newsletter, LinkedIn/Twitter campaign, SEO test)

Track a simple funnel: visits → signups → conversions

Stage 4: Leadership, Scaling & Founder Habits

Read 'The Hard Thing About Hard Things' (Ben Horowitz)

Read 'The Almanack of Naval Ravikant' (free online)

Explore Farnam Street blog for mental models

Watch YC Founder Library talks (leadership, hiring, culture)

Read startup failure postmortems (Failory, CB Insights reports)

Study global hiring & team building (Deel, Remote.com, Upwork)

Practice: Write your founder operating principles (decision-making, culture, focus)

Stage 5: Advanced Tech Founder Edge

Learn SaaS architecture basics (multi-tenancy, scaling, monitoring)

Study API monetization models (Stripe, Twilio, OpenAI)

Learn basics of cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, or DigitalOcean)

Explore AI/ML productization (turn models into products)

Join hackathons or IndieHacker challenges to launch experiments fast

Study compliance for global startups (payments, GDPR, cross-border law)

Explore open-source as a startup business model

Practice: Ship a global-ready side project (API, SaaS tool, or AI app)

Share publicly (Product Hunt, IndieHackers, Twitter/LinkedIn)

Previous Action Plan