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๐Ÿ‘‹ Hi! Iโ€™m Alastair (aka @pyrat)

Iโ€™m a software developer, product builder, and CTO at Createview AS, focused on computer vision tooling, backend systems, and developer-first products.

I build open-source libraries, run production services, and create SaaS products that solve real-world problems โ€” from vision pipelines to hardware BOM management.


๐Ÿš€ What Iโ€™m Working On

  • ๐Ÿง  Computer vision tooling & ML infrastructure
  • ๐ŸŒ Backend systems in Python and Ruby on Rails
  • โš™๏ธ APIs, DevOps, and self-hosted services
  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Products that bridge software + hardware

๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ผ Professional Role

๐Ÿข CTO โ€” Createview AS

As CTO at Createview AS, I work on technical strategy, architecture, and delivery of scalable software systems, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability.


๐Ÿงฑ Products & Organizations

๐Ÿงพ BomBuilds

Founder & creator of BomBuilds โ€” a Bill of Materials (BOM) management platform for hardware teams and builders.

BomBuilds helps organize parts, manage builds, and keep hardware projects sane as they scale.


๐Ÿ“ธ OsloVision

Creator and maintainer of OsloVision, a collection of practical computer-vision tools and services.

  • ๐ŸŒ Production app: https://oslo.vision

Public repositories:

  • paddle-ocr-http โ€” HTTP API wrapper around PaddleOCR 3 / PP-OCRv5
  • anpr-rpi-standalone โ€” Stand-alone automatic number plate recognition for Raspberry Pi / edge devices

More tools and documentation coming over time.


๐Ÿ“Œ Open-Source Projects

๐Ÿ’ป Developer Tools & Libraries

  • wee_beastie โ€” Lightweight forum engine for Rails
  • ssl_requirement โ€” SSL enforcement utility for Rails
  • wee_lightbox โ€” Lightbox integration plugin for Rails
  • deployment_recipiez โ€” Nginx + Thin/Passenger deployment recipes
  • chef-backup โ€” Chef cookbook for automated backups
  • wee-php-beautifier.tmbundle โ€” PHP beautifier bundle for TextMate

Explore everything here โ†’ https://github.com/pyrat


๐Ÿง  Tech Stack & Interests

Area Tools
๐Ÿ“ธ Computer Vision Python, YOLO, PaddleOCR, SAM
๐ŸŒ Backend Rails, FastAPI, Flask
โš™๏ธ DevOps Docker, CI/CD, Nginx
๐Ÿ’ป Frontend JavaScript, Bootstrap

๐Ÿ“ซ Get in Touch

  • ๐Ÿ™ GitHub: https://github.com/pyrat
  • ๐ŸŒ OsloVision (production): https://oslo.vision
  • ๐Ÿงพ BomBuilds: https://bombuilds.com

Thanks for stopping by ๐Ÿ‘‹

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  1. OsloVision/paddle-ocr-http OsloVision/paddle-ocr-http Public

    This is an http api using paddleocr 3 and PP-OCRv5

    Python 2 1

  2. OsloVision/anpr-rpi-standalone OsloVision/anpr-rpi-standalone Public

    Standalone Car Loan Detector

    Python 3 1

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