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The Pillars of Creation: dark columns of gas and dust lit red and white at the heart of the Eagle Nebula
The Orion Nebula: a bright white core wrapped in red and pink clouds of gas, with scattered stars
The Triangulum Galaxy: a faint spiral with a warm core and bluish arms in a dense field of stars
Comet ATLAS: a bright head low in the frame and a long pale tail rising through a grey sky
A faint band of the Milky Way rising through a starry sky, with a camera tracking mount in silhouette against an orange-lit roof edge

Georgetown, Guyana

Software, data, and the night sky.

I'm Samir Mohammed. I build public-sector systems at NDMA, train models, and run AstroPhotosGY, Guyana's public astronomy site.

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Every photograph here is mine, shot from Guyana

All photographs
  • Two Guyana Prizesfor Literature, 2022 and 2023
  • Best Emerging TeamSBM / OPM Innovation Challenge 2024
  • Open workGitHub, Kaggle, Hugging Face

Selected work

What I built, and what it changed

  1. NDMA · 2026

    Public-sector Frappe apps

    Rebuilt the EPA staff workspaces with Environmental Permits split by department, and updated the Visa and Non-Citizen Permit systems for rule changes.

    Stack: Frappe · Python · JavaScript

    Case study
    Government systemsSource and screens stay private

  2. NDMA for the Ministry of Education · 2026

    OMR exam pipeline

    Generates answer sheets in batch and scores the scans. NDMA uses it to mark Ministry of Education exams.

    Stack: Python · OpenCV

    Case study
    Ministry workSheet layouts are withheld

  3. Legal platform · 2026

    Magistrate Wizard

    A legal knowledge platform for magistrates, on the web, Android, iOS and Windows. I wrote 105 of its 185 commits.

    Stack: React · TypeScript · Supabase

    Case studymagistrate-wizard.vercel.app (opens in a new tab)
    Behind a loginDocket, judgments, legal library

  4. Founder and developer · 2023 to now

    AstroPhotosGY

    Guyana's public astronomy site: 43 lessons, a nightly sky page for 65 places, and 29 tools. Featured in Stabroek Weekend.

    Stack: Next.js · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS

    Case studyastrophotosgy.com (opens in a new tab)
    The AstroPhotosGY logo: the words Astro Photo GY drawn as gold constellation lines

  5. Open source · 2026

    Narrative AI

    Maps a manuscript's plot, characters and tension curve, locally in the browser. MIT-licensed.

    Stack: Next.js · TypeScript

    Case studyGitHub (opens in a new tab)
    Open sourceFabula, syuzhet, tension

  6. SBM / OPM Innovation Challenge · 2024

    Passenger and pothole detection

    A computer-vision and weather model built for the challenge. The team won Best Emerging Team.

    Stack: Computer vision

    More in Work
    The team's driver dashboard on a screen at the challenge: a camera feed with detection boxes beside a map

  7. Kaggle and this site · 2024 to 2026

    Guyana data

    Guyana's reported serious crimes from 1990 to 2022 as an open Kaggle dataset, and historical price bands for ten common cars by condition and year. My XGBoost notebook took a Kaggle bronze medal.

    Stack: Python · XGBoost · React · TypeScript

    Case studyOpen the tool
    Open dataCrime, cars, Kaggle

  8. Coursework · team leader · 2026

    3D Car Showroom Simulator

    A first-person OpenGL showroom with physically based car paint. I led the team of eight and wrote 72 of its 83 commits.

    Stack: Python · OpenGL · GLSL

    Case studyGitHub (opens in a new tab)
    Real-time graphicsClearcoat, area lights, bloom

  9. Open work

    Notebooks and models

    Public Kaggle and GitHub notebooks with XGBoost, and a manga OCR and translation pipeline on ONNX, in progress, with its model card on Hugging Face.

    Stack: Python · XGBoost · ONNX Runtime

    Kaggle (opens in a new tab)GitHub (opens in a new tab)Hugging Face (opens in a new tab)
    Open workKaggle · GitHub · Hugging Face

Websites for businesses in Guyana

Live sites I built for clients.

All work, with years and proof

Night sky

Every photograph here is mine, shot from Guyana

Deep-sky, lunar and comet photographs, taken from Georgetown and the interior.

  • The Orion Nebula: a bright white core wrapped in red and pink clouds of gas, with scattered stars
    Orion NebulaGeorgetown, Guyana, 2023
  • The Triangulum Galaxy: a faint spiral with a warm core and bluish arms in a dense field of stars
    The Triangulum GalaxyGuyana interior, 2023
  • A gibbous Moon in enhanced colour, its dark plains tinted blue against grey highlands
    The Colors of the MoonGeorgetown, Guyana, 2023
  • Comet ATLAS: a bright head low in the frame and a long pale tail rising through a grey sky
    Comet Atlas 2024Guyana interior, 2024
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In the field

Outreach

School visits, workshops and campus stargazing, first as president of the UG Astronomical Society and now through AstroPhotosGY. I also run partnerships for CFPREP.

  • Samir adjusting a refractor telescope on a tripod outdoors while another person steadies the mount
    Setting up a telescope
  • Samir with University of Guyana students at an outreach table laid out with binoculars, a small telescope and handouts
    University of Guyana outreach table
  • Samir standing beside a CFPREP banner that reads Peace, Rights, Progress
    CFPREP, where I'm Director of Development

Writing

Fiction, poetry and essays

Two Guyana Prizes for Literature, in 2022 and 2023. Essays on Guyana's oil economy, development and AI.

All writingBlog
Samir Mohammed

About

Background

ASc. Physics and BSc. Computer Science at UG. I write software, train models, and write fiction. Most of the work is in Guyana.

Record

Work

  1. 2025 to nowAssistant ICT Engineer, National Data Management AuthorityFrappe apps for public-sector operations, and an OMR tool for exam marking.
  2. 2025Data Science Intern, Bureau of StatisticsLabour-force survey data in R, with reusable charts and notebooks.
  3. 2024 to 2025Business Analyst and Developer, Keen360A Creatio CRM migration with a Python ETL.
  4. 2024NLP and Generative AI Engineer, V75 Inc.Agents with NER and RAG, evaluated with precision, recall and F1.

Community

  1. 2024 to nowDirector of Development, CFPREPPartnerships and monitoring across Guyana, St. Lucia, Jamaica and Anguilla.
  2. 2023 to nowFounder, AstroPhotosGYPhotographs, sky guides, workshops and school visits.
  3. 2023 to 2024Volunteer event photographer, Youth Action Network, U.S. EmbassyPhotographed embassy and youth events.
  4. 2022 to 2023President, University of Guyana Astronomical SocietySchool visits, fundraising and campus stargazing.

Education and awards

  1. 2023 to 2027BSc Computer Science, University of Guyana
  2. 2021 to 2023ASc Physics, University of Guyana
  3. 2024Best Emerging Team, SBM / OPM Innovation Challenge
  4. 2024Certificates, University of Sydney and IBMData-driven Astronomy; Machine Learning with Python; Deep Learning with Keras; Computer Vision.
  5. 2023Guyana Prize for Literature, Ministry of Culture, Youth and SportBest overall short story, "The Lighthouse at the Bottom of the Sea", and third place in poetry.
  6. 2022Guyana Prize for Literature, Ministry of Culture, Youth and SportShort story and poetry, youth category.
  7. 2022Ideathon runner-up, Smart School Solution