const kevin = {
role: "Mid TypeScript/AWS Engineer @ TELUS Digital",
location: "El Salvador 🇸🇻",
currentWork: "SmartHome+ IoT Platform (TELUS Canada)",
education: "Computer Science Engineer — UFG (in progress)",
interests: ["Backend Engineering", "IoT Systems", "Agentic AI Workflows", "Embedded/Hardware"],
funFact: "TEDx Speaker 🎤 | NASA Space Apps Participant 🚀 | Piano player 🎹",
};- 🔭 Currently building TELUS SmartHome+ — the most innovative IoT insignia project at TELUS Canada
- 🌱 Side projects: SupraCraft (NeoForge Minecraft mod), LexPulse (Wear OS language learning app), hosty (Raspberry Pi 5 homelab)
- 🤖 Agentic AI practitioner — I write structured user stories + technical specs before delegating to coding agents (Claude, GitHub Copilot, Google Jules)
- 📝 Writing on Medium about backend engineering and ML
- 💬 Ask me about TypeScript, NestJS, AWS CDK, Bun.js, Prompt Engineering
- 📫 Reach me at linkedin.com/in/kevarce
| Project | Description | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| BreakPoint | GitHub App that enforces API contract integrity on PRs — generates & diffs OpenAPI schemas, validates semver bumps, and reports via Check Runs & PR comments | TypeScript · Probot · GitHub Actions |
| Botditor | AI-powered Reddit moderation bot with LLM integration, toxic comment detection, spam filtering, and a YAML-driven rule engine | TypeScript · Devvit · OpenAI |
| Envinator | CLI tool that statically analyzes codebases to audit process.env usages against .env files — eliminates runtime env errors |
TypeScript · Node.js |
| bun-cli | Rust-based CLI for scaffolding new Bun.js project structures with one command | Rust · Bun.js |
| LESSA Dataset | One of the most downloaded El Salvador datasets — El Salvador Sign Language image dataset for ML research | Python · Computer Vision |
| GermanFromZeroToHero | 📱 One of my first commercially sold mobile apps (~2020) — German language learning app with AI-powered object recognition, global chat, grammar lessons, and an integrated translator | Dart · Flutter · Firebase |
| Linux-Arctis-Manager (Contributor) | Merged PR fixing hardware pairing for SteelSeries headsets on Linux | Linux · Open Source |
- 🎤 TEDx Speaker — Delivered a talk on science fiction writing (Dec 2016)
- 🚀 NASA Space Apps Challenge participant (Oct 2021)
- 🧠 Stanford ML Course — Supervised Machine Learning: Regression & Classification
- 📦 96+ public repositories spanning backend, ML, mobile, and hardware
- 🗂️ Created the LESSA dataset — one of the most popular open datasets from El Salvador
- 🔬 Research contributor — Centro de Modelaje Matemático, UFG
💡 More posts coming — follow me on Medium
"The best backend is the one that disappears — fast, invisible, and always there."
