booting profile://hkchen.com

Think it. Build it. Break it. Ship it.

Postdoc who builds startups on the side and hacks whatever's left. I care about systems that compound — research that generates leverage, products that scale themselves, ideas that keep paying out. This is where I think out loud.

See my work Read my mind

FounderStartups and products I've built — from first commit to first customer.

ResearcherPapers I've published, citations that stuck, and academic threads still in progress.

HackerSide projects, experiments, and hacked-together tools built to test ideas fast.

ThinkerDaily ideas, half-baked hypotheses, and the occasional thought worth finishing.

/etc/whoami

Hey. I'm Huankai.

Research Associate by day. Founder by night. The boundary between the two is a compile error I stopped fixing.

I reverse-engineer broken systems and ship replacements. Built Topy AI to patch the co-founder problem. Forked that into AI CMO when GTM kept killing startups. Now CTO at Dhahaby — rewriting credit infrastructure because the legacy stack deserves to be deprecated.

Root access to: AI, fintech, security, and the gap between what's published and what actually works.

Current exploit: automate the income, free the time, enjoy the output.

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FND-ai-marketing-os-ltd

active

AI × Marketing

AI Marketing OS Ltd

|Founder & CTO|Sept 2025 – Present

At AI Marketing OS Ltd, I lead the spin-out of AI CMO from the broader AI Co-Founders vision. This marks the start of a new chapter, focusing on solving one of the hardest challenges for startups: Go-To-Market and Traction. Our mission is to make AI-powered marketing strategy, execution, and growth accessible from day one, without the high costs of agencies or the delays of trial-and-error. By building an affordable, founder-first marketing operating system, we aim to give every startup the tools to scale visibility and reach with clarity and speed. While this journey is a focused path, the AI Co-Founders vision remains alive. I believe AI.CMO.SO and TOPY.AI will one day reunite to empower the global startup community together.

./hacks

LAB-aspa-day

active

ASPA.DAY

Wellness × SEO

ASPA.DAY is a calm, SEO-first guide to finding trusted spa and massage experiences. The platform is built for discovery: visitors can browse by city, explore services, and compare options without creating an account. It helps visitors explore wellness options without noise or pressure.

A calm, trusted guide to spa and massage discoveryASPA.DAY

LAB-geo-vote-insights

active

GEO.vote Insights

AI × SaaS

GEO.vote Insights is a project that started from curiosity and frustration, not a sales plan. It provides tools that help people understand how AI really works, and is committed to doing it in a way that feels honest, useful, and accessible to everyone. It helps businesses understand how AI sees them, without jargon or enterprise pricing. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is simply about understanding how AI answers those questions.

AI Search Tracking & Generative Engine OptimizationGEO.VOTE

ls ~/research/

RSH-01

Active

University of Westminster

Research Associate·May 2018 – Present

Currently working as Research Associate on "EU H2020 COLA (Cloud Orchestration at the Level of Application)" project that investigates how a generic and pluggable framework that supports the optimal and secure deployment and run-time orchestration of cloud applications can be created and "H2020 CloudiFacturing (Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing)" project that brings and progresses advanced information and communications technology in the field of cloud-based modelling and simulation, data analytics for online factory data, and real-time support to European manufacturing SMEs.

London, United Kingdom

RSH-02

Completed

University of Kent

Research Associate in Distributed Systems/Databases·Mar 2016 – Mar 2018

Work on EPSRC project "Unified Stream and Transaction Processing" that sits at the interface of Distributed and Database Systems research, aiming to integrate the models of Stream and Transaction processing to develop next-generation big data processing systems.

Chatham

cat ~/.degrees

2003 – 2007

Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Computer Science

University of Hertfordshire

2008 – 2009

Master of Science (MSc)

Computer Science

University of Hertfordshire

2010 – 2011

Master of Science (MSc)