Summary
Eddy K is an R&D leader and serial builder with 11 years of engineering experience, currently spearheading Live Avatar work at HeyGen from Santa Monica. He blends hands-on systems architecture with product-focused AI work, having founded Diffusion Labs to advise on AI, data, and marketplace strategies while previously inventing a patent-pending AI product-data quality system at Verishop. Eddy has a track record of lifting platform reliability and customer metrics—rebuilding Arena Club’s marketplace and observability stack and creating an NFT for card provenance—and has saved operations hundreds of thousands per month via an AI image pipeline. Comfortable across backend, infrastructure, and Web3 domains, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-grade execution and community roots organizing Node.js meetups. An avid tinkerer, his background includes low-level systems work and playful engineering experiments that surface a curiosity-driven approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine