KD Studios

An engineering & creative-technology studio
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AI Engineer & Full-Stack Developer. I ship AI products end to end: model integration, full-stack apps, and the cloud they run on. Engineering and autonomous-systems work first; design and creative work below.

Open to remote AI/ML & full-stack roles · kaydoiron1@gmail.com
01 · AI & Engineering

AI & Engineering

I build and ship AI products end to end: full-stack apps, self-hosted models, and real-time infrastructure, live in production.

Flagship · Co-Founder, CTO & Lead Engineer

Colectiv

An AI-powered collective-intelligence platform and creator economy, architected and shipped end to end, live in production with real creators.

  • Built the full stack: React/TS, Node/Express + Python, PostgreSQL, Redis & MongoDB, owning the architecture.
  • Self-hosted model stack: PyTorch, Transformers, LoRA fine-tuning, and ChromaDB retrieval (RAG).
  • Real-time voice & video on a mediasoup WebRTC SFU with Stripe payments; deployed on Cloudflare, Railway & Docker.
PyTorchReact + TSNode · PythonPostgreSQLWebRTC · SFUStripe
Mobile · iOS & Android

Colectiv Mobile

Shipped the cross-platform app in React Native & Expo: native WebRTC calling over our mediasoup SFU media servers, camera, and secure on-device storage, released through EAS Build.

React NativeExpoWebRTC · SFU
Applied ML · Self-Hosted

Model & Inference Service

Stood up a self-hosted model service: PyTorch + Transformers vision models, LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning, llama.cpp quantization, and ChromaDB RAG, served over FastAPI.

TransformersLoRAFastAPI
Real-Time Voice & Video

Live AI Media Pipeline

Engineered low-latency voice agents and streaming: mediasoup SFU, Pipecat orchestration, Deepgram speech-to-text, and ElevenLabs voice, over Socket.IO and Redis.

mediasoupPipecatDeepgram
Security · Content Protection · Patent Pending

ArtGuard

Built Colectiv's content-protection system: every creator upload is automatically protected at ingest, with verifiable proof of provenance that lets us identify a creator's work even after it has been re-saved, re-encoded, or re-shared elsewhere.

Applied CryptographyImage ProcessingNode · Python
02 · Stack

Tech Stack

What's running in production across my projects.

Languages
Python·TypeScript·JavaScript·SQL
AI / ML
PyTorch·Transformers·LoRA / PEFT·Self-hosted LLMs·RAG (ChromaDB)·Whisper·Diffusers·scikit-learn
Frontend & Mobile
React·React Native·Expo·Vite·Tailwind·Three.js / R3F·TipTap·Framer Motion
Backend & Real-Time
Node / Express·Flask·FastAPI·Socket.IO·WebRTC (mediasoup)·Stripe·REST
Cloud & Data
Cloudflare·Railway·Docker·PostgreSQL·Redis·MongoDB·Sentry
Robotics & Autonomy
PPO (RL)·YOLO / ONNX·OpenCV·PyBullet·MAVLink·EKF
03 · Autonomous & Unmanned Systems

Unmanned Systems

My differentiator: unmanned-systems training at Embry-Riddle, applied to autonomy in code. Reinforcement learning, computer-vision perception, and flight control.

Autonomous Drone Racing · AI Pilot · Independent Research

Kestrel

An end-to-end autonomous drone-racing pilot, built solo to the AI Grand Prix qualifier spec as an independent deep-dive into flight autonomy: a reinforcement-learning policy that flies a simulated quadrotor through race gates from onboard vision, trained in simulation, exported to ONNX, and bridged to flight hardware over MAVLink.

Kestrel's flight brain flying a procedurally generated slalom in its PyBullet sim — gates flash green as they're cleared.
Control
Cascaded PID + EKF state estimation
Learning
PPO reinforcement learning (PyTorch)
Perception
YOLO gate detection → ONNX runtime
Sim → Real
PyBullet physics · MAVLink pilot bridge
PythonPyTorchReinforcement LearningYOLOONNXOpenCVPyBulletMAVLink
Unmanned Systems Applications · Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University · 2020–2023
UAV operations · mission planning · flight & payload ops · sensor integration · systems design. The engineering foundation behind the autonomy work above.
04 · Built & Shipped

Web Design

Live sites I've designed and built, full-stack, front to back. Hover for the name, click any to see details.

05 · Interactive & 3D

Game Design

End-to-end game development, built in Unity, with custom 3D models and environments modeled in Blender, original sound design, and hand-crafted game mechanics. Real-time 3D for the web with Three.js and WebGL. From full custom games to interactive apps. Tap any tile to view full screen.

Unity Blender 3D Modeling Three.js WebGL Sound Design Game Mechanics Custom Games Interactive Apps
06 · Collection

Art

Shop originals & prints ↗

Original works synced live from my Colectiv shop. Browse here, purchase securely. Each is a 1-of-1 original.

Reaper Reaper
Reckoning Reckoning
Open Open
Stay Golden Stay Golden
Enter the Dragon Enter the Dragon
Unseen Unseen
Mirror Mirror
07 · Lens

Photography

Selected frames. Tap any image to view full screen.

08 · Words

Writing

The Journal →

Books, essays, and ongoing writing. Latest entries below.

First entry coming soon·

VISIONSPACE

A studio for building soulful, future-facing digital experiences: web, brand, and AI-driven products. Tell me about your project and let's create it together.

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