vincentkoc - Overview

Hi 👋, I'm Vincent

I'm an engineer and technologist with nearly two decades of experience across top companies in the Asia Pacific and US. I've contributed to leading repositories from Airbyte, Apache Foundation, Cohere, Databricks, Facebook, Google, Hasura, Microsoft, and many others!

🇺🇳 I'm currently a totally remote work from anywhere nomad but most of my time is in SF. (Previously 🇦🇺🇪🇺🇸🇬🇹🇷🇵🇹🇸🇬🇺🇸🇬🇧)
🎓 Teaching applied data science, no-code AI, and generative AI at top universities such as MIT, UT Austin and UNSW.
✍️ Writing regularly on Medium, X and few other places.
✨ Passionate about cooking, hiking, cycling and travel when im not on a screen.
🌱 Obsessing on self-optimizing agents, design patterns, AI in precision health and behavioral psychology.
🔭 Giving back by sponsoring other developers, and you can also sponsor me.
💬 Ask me about artificial intelligence, automous agents, startups, biohacking.
☕ Feel free to buy me a coffee to show support.
🍜 Ramen and noodles are my kryptonite.

Some of my projects I have published or repostories I have been a maintainer for:

📁 .skills (2026) - Curated skills and skill registry (a-kin to dotfiles) for coding agents and OpenClaw.
🦞 openclaw (2026) - Personal AI assistant, contributing with CVEs and OTel to make lobsters safe.
🐦 finagotchi (2026) - Tamagotchi‑inspired AI agent that evolves with financial data, using SLMs and local graph.
🧠 openamnesia (2026) - Backfill .md memory files for agents locally from iMessage to Cursor logs locally with no apis.
🦞 awesome-openclaw (2026) - Curated awesome list for OpenClaw (formerly Moltbot/Clawdbot).
🔭 opik-optimizer (2025) - Lead developer and project maintainer for agent optimization SDK.
🔭 opik-mcp (2025) - Developed an Anthrophic MCP endorsed official server for Comet Opik.
🔭 opik (2025) - Debug, evaluate, and monitor your LLM applications. Leading open-source LLM evaluation toolkit.
👻 dexscraper (2025) - Real-time DexScreener scraper for multi-chain token discovery, filtering, and feed for bots.
🧑‍🚀 airgapped-offline-rag (2025) - 100% offline dockerized RAG with quantized model inference.
🎙️ omi (2024) - omi.me (YC, prev. Friend AI) developing AI wearable firmware and live speech analysis.
✨ Synthetic user research (2024) - Autonomous agents powering reasearch studies and panels with persona prompting.
🗄️ Airbyte (2024) - Core contributor for the worlds leading data integration platform.
🔑 autosecure (2017) - Public threat-feed and blocklists to automatic IP blocking for Linux and macOS firewalls.
📱 android-market-php (2014) - Port the java project and c++ protobuffs to develop an unofficial Google Play SDK.

I'm always open to building, contributing, collaborating, and chatting. Feel free to 📫 reach out.

Hi 👋, I'm Vincent

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