hi, i'm Jonathan
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About
I'm Jonathan Duran-Ortiz, a CS student at NC State University. I've done AI research/engineering at Unbounded Labs and co-president/founder of Thinking Machines, NC State's largest AI club. I've built websites and automation tools for local businesses at RDU Technology, led the iOS development team at NCSU App Club, and co-founded Voice First, deploying AI voice agents for small businesses. When I'm not coding, you'll find me bodybuilding, cheffing it up, building small form factor PCs, motocross racing, watching anime, or reading manga.
Education
North Carolina State University
Skills
Check out my latest work
I've worked on a variety of projects, from simple automations to complex web applications. Here are a few of my favorites.
Bartholomew: A Vintage LLM
A 2.82B-parameter language model trained on 20.1B tokens of pre-1931 text. Contributed the training harness, vintage evaluation benchmarks, fine-tuning, and serverless inference. Built an automated research loop that ran 100 experiments to improve the model.
Optimal
An iOS workout tracker I built for my own training, but later expanded to support gym communities. Log workouts, build routines, explore an exercise library, and track strength standards and progress with interactive charts. Refined through daily use and feedback from five testers.
Sequel
A social app for discovering movies and TV shows, built with a five-person team at NCSU App Club. Includes TMDB search, watchlists, episode discussions, and local caching. Led the SwiftUI architecture, development, and code reviews.
Mandelbrot Network Challenge
A neural-network competition I created for Thinking Machines. Train a model to approximate the Mandelbrot set with just 30 seconds on an NVIDIA T4. Includes a Colab notebook, automated evaluation, and a live leaderboard with 217 submissions.
Dreamline Glass & Glazing
Designed and built the website for a commercial glass and glazing contractor through RDU Technology. Delivered in June 2026 with 100 Lighthouse scores across Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices, and SEO.
VoiceFirst Dashboard
Serverless SaaS dashboard with PostgreSQL, Edge Functions, Row Level Security, Stripe subscription management, and real-time call analytics processing 100+ daily events with automated data sync. Developed admin panel with business account management, call history filtering for serving Triangle area businesses.