Grant Hawkins
Founder at Earmark.fm
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Hawkins is a founder and versatile software engineer with six years focused on AI-driven developer tools and agent-based systems, currently building consumer audio and AI products from Ho Chi Minh City. He led the evolution of AbanteAI’s product stack—turning a CLI into a GitHub-integrated AI coding agent—and created Rawdog, a natural-language CLI that trended on GitHub with 1,500+ stars. His work blends practical engineering (embeddings, graph-based context, high-performance ABMs) with user-centered product design, evidenced by SIMOC’s 100x speedup and published NASA conference papers. An unconventional career path—from designing utility-scale solar systems and founding a handmade leather business in Vietnam to modeling Mars habitats—gives him a knack for creative, cross-domain solutions others miss. He excels at shipping prototypes that rapidly gain traction and thrives where technical depth meets product intuition.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Inter-College Program, Entrepreneurial Management, Sustainability, Inter-College Program, Entrepreneurial Management, Sustainability at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (35)
cpu10
genetic10
genetic-programming10
cuda9
python8
gpu8
machine-learning8
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
backend6
neural-network6
space4
colony4
blockchain3
wallet3
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
AbanteAI/ragdaemon
Feb 2024 - Aug 2024
Generate and render a 3d call graph for a Python project
Contributions:2 reviews, 70 PRs, 156 pushes in 6 months
granawkins/latent-dictionary
Oct 2023 - Feb 2025
A dictionary, but it shows you position in embedding space relative to some synonyms/antonyms instead of a definition.
Contributions:1 review, 60 PRs, 94 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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