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Calvin Ku

Calvin Ku

@calvinku

Portfolio ©2026

AI Engineer & Builder | Human Growth AI | DevRel / AI Advocate

Machine learning practitioner with 13+ years bridging research, product development, and technical communication. Background spans medical AI (Nature Communications paper on gastric cancer detection), financial ML (credit risk modeling that outperformed FICO; wine asset pricing using collaborative filtering), and applied NLP / agent systems.

Combines deep ML hands-on experience with public speaking at major conferences (WAIC 2018, ICCV 2019), open-source contribution (MemFuse, Chat2Graph), and product-building experience as co-founder of multiple ventures. Equally comfortable writing production ML code, explaining technical concepts to non-technical audiences, and building developer-facing content.

Currently active on Threads (2,000+ followers, growing) in AI / agent memory niche.

Talk on network effects & startup cold-start: bilibili.com/video/BV1Qj411q7qf/

[ 01 ]Work

Featured work

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View A gamified, cute Pomodoro timer for developers that makes productivity fun with collectible tomatoes, streaks, and a woodblock-style cat mascot named Tom.
A gamified, cute Pomodoro timer for developers that makes productivity fun with collectible tomatoes, streaks, and a woodblock-style cat mascot named Tom.

Pawmodoro — The Cutest Pomodoro Timer

Creator & Lead Developer

A gamified, cute Pomodoro timer for developers that makes productivity fun with collectible tomatoes, streaks, and a woodblock-style cat mascot named Tom.

ProductivityGamificationNext.jsDesign Engineering
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View Open-source memory infrastructure for LLMs with cognitive architecture, intelligent buffering, and unified search—solving the statelessness problem that plagues every AI application
Open-source memory infrastructure for LLMs with cognitive architecture, intelligent buffering, and unified search—solving the statelessness problem that plagues every AI application

MemFuse — Memory Infrastructure for LLMs

Cofounder & Core Developer

Open-source memory infrastructure for LLMs with cognitive architecture, intelligent buffering, and unified search—solving the statelessness problem that plagues every AI application

AILLM InfrastructureOSSMemory SystemsDistributed Systems
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View Redesigned personal portfolio with ChatGPT-inspired UI, achieving 95+ Lighthouse scores across all metrics
Redesigned personal portfolio with ChatGPT-inspired UI, achieving 95+ Lighthouse scores across all metrics

Portfolio Redesign — ChatGPT-Style Personal Site

Designer & Developer

Redesigned personal portfolio with ChatGPT-inspired UI, achieving 95+ Lighthouse scores across all metrics

DesignWeb PerformanceUI/UX
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[ 02 ]Blog

Recent posts

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Hello, World

  • meta
  • intro
1 min read

Kicking off my blog with goals and what to expect.

Architecture Overview — How This Site Is Built

  • architecture
  • next.js
  • contentlayer
  • typescript
  • mdx
8 min read

A deep dive into the technical architecture: Next.js 15, Contentlayer, type-safe MDX, and the build pipeline that powers this portfolio.