Afika Nyati
Founder at verascope
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAfika Nyati is a founder, designer-engineer hybrid with 11 years of experience building human-centered interfaces and products at the intersection of AR/VR, accessibility, and education. Based in New York, they founded verascope to turn advanced STEM topics into playable, pedagogical video games and spent four years authoring a companion book that crystallizes that pedagogy. Their background blends front-end engineering, 3D/VR design, and research from MIT Media Lab projects to practical products—from voice-driven interfaces to AR experiences for HoloLens. Afika’s work repeatedly focuses on replacing brittle, lecture-first teaching with multimodal, agency-enhancing tools that scale learning for diverse abilities. Notably, they’ve shipped features for citizen science games and built proof-of-concept voice-only editing tools, revealing a consistent drive to make complex systems more learnable and accessible.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Diocesan College, BishopsBachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor’s Degree (Incomplete) Engineering in Mechatronics, Bachelor’s Degree (Incomplete) Engineering in Mechatronics at University of Cape Town
English, Xhosa, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
interface-design10
midi9
music9
computer-vision7
swift6
audiokit6
speech6
science6
audio6
avaudioengine6
pitch6
voice-recognition6
ios6
vue5
autocomplete5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
afikanyati/afika-personal-website
Aug 2017 - Jan 2021
Afika Nyati's personal website, a Node.js web application written using ReactJS and JavaScript ES6 syntax. Web Application employs Babel for compiling ES6 syntax and Webpack for module bundling. Application data is stored and served using Google Firebase.
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
storedbabelreactgoogle-firebasenode-js
afikanyati/cadenCV
Dec 2017 - Aug 2019
An optical music recognition system built as a final project for 6.819: Advances in Computer Vision course at MIT. Takes sheet music as input and returns a MIDI file of written music.
Contributions:5 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
returnstakesvisionmidirecognition
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