hey, I’m

Daniel Ganjali

Toronto, Canada

I love building things with other people.

I’m 16, in Grade 11 at UTS in Toronto. Most of my time goes into robotics, AI, and working with teams to turn ambitious ideas into reality.

Daniel Ganjali

a few things from the desk…

OutreachOS

2026

Building now

An operating system for outreach. I’m building it to take the boring, repetitive parts of business development off people’s plates, so a tiny team can punch way above its weight.

Next.jsAIAutomation
outreachos.app
built in the 6ix 🇨🇦

Dum-E

2025

Hack the North · Finalist

A robot arm you can actually talk to. Tell it what you want in plain English and it works out the rest: it sees the scene with computer vision, reasons with an LLM, and moves with inverse kinematics. Built in a weekend at Hack the North.

Computer VisionLLMsRobotics
Dum-E, the 3D-printed robotic arm, mid-build at Hack the North
Dum-E at Hack the North

the tally so far.

7x
hackathon winner
11+
competitions entered
$20k+
in prizes
  • Top 30 in the world, VEX World Championships (2x qualifier)
  • 3x Canadian Computing Contest Honor Roll
  • USAAIO Honor Roll and Round 2 qualifier
  • 4.0 GPA at UTS · School Pin for academic and extracurricular excellence

Heimdall

2025

BramHacks · 1st of 700+ · $5,000

A satellite repair system: a robotic arm mounted on a satellite, paired with an AI that watches for failures and predicts them before they happen (~85% accuracy). It won BramHacks, first out of 700+, and ended up in the local news, in front of Brampton City Council, and in front of the Canadian Space Council.

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Our team holding the $5,000 BramHacks first-place cheque
BramHacks 2025
The Heimdall satellite-repair robotic arm
Heimdall — a robotic arm on a satellite

Where it all started.

I’ve been on my school’s robotics team for four years now, and captain for the last two. When I joined we were 20 kids and a single team. Today we’re 80+ across four teams, and I lead the programming and systems side in C++.

The part I’m proudest of: we’ve qualified for the VEX World Championships two years running, finishing top 30 in the world.

The team at the VEX World Championships
the team at VEX Worlds
top 30 in the world 🌍
Our competition robot 19109A
robot 19109A

AI Rescue Turret

2025

Hack the 6ix · 1st + Best Hardware · $2,500

A little turret that spots someone in the water and automatically launches a rescue buoy to them. A camera to find the target, depth estimation to range it, and PID control to aim, all on a Raspberry Pi and Arduino.

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The rescue turret
the rescue turret

When I’m not building.

I swim, play soccer, and I’ve been a die-hard Tottenham fan for eight years. I've been there for the highs and the lows.

Tottenham lifting the Europa League
COYS 🤍

Predictra

2025

SpurHacks · 2nd AI Startup + Most Scalable · $5,500

A system that predicts how much life a machine part has left, without ever needing to watch one fail. Built to drop into all kinds of industrial gear.

Predictive MaintenanceML
GitHub

Sleep Optimizer

2024

Ignition Hacks · 2nd Overall + Best Pitch · $1,000

An app that learns your sleep patterns and nudges you toward a better schedule. Took 2nd overall and Best Pitch at Ignition Hacks.

MobileML

Surgical Instrument Validation

2025

TerraHacks · Best Healthcare · $1,000

A vision system that double-checks surgical trays and flags anything missing, so operating rooms catch setup mistakes before they matter.

OpenCVHealthcare

Food Bank Forecasting

2024

BluesHacks · 3rd Overall

An ML-powered inventory system for food banks that forecasts demand so shelves are stocked before they run dry.

ForecastingML

Also involved in

  • CUCAI · ResearcherPublished two papers: a computer-vision posture-analysis system, and an eye-tracking system built without traditional ML architectures for speed.
  • UTS AI Network · Co-FounderStarted and grew a student AI club, mentored teams, and sent 10 of them to CUCAI.
  • Hack the 6ix · OperationsHelp run Toronto’s largest summer hackathon (450 hackers): logistics, sponsors, and programming.
  • YRES Workshops · InstructorTaught programming, electronics, and robotics to 50+ students and helped build the curriculum.