Kawi Xiao
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Kawi Xiao

Full Stack Engineer.

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Writing

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    My 'accidental' early exposure to AI

    Long story short, I was actually exposed to “AI” back in 2011 without me realising it. It was a Final Year Project during my Diploma time when my friends and I implemented a Supervised Learning algorithm called Naive Bayes Classifier. The project was simple: first, train the model with a preset of data with labels (negative tweet, neutral, or positive tweet), and then fetch all the tweets for a given user and classify each tweet using the trained model if they are negative or positive.

    AI 2026
  • Porfolio Website Refresh

    Introductory notes on my portfolio website refresh with the help of AI

    As I was having the infrequent reflection moment and with the recent trends of AI model, my mind was brought back into this portfolio website that I have not been maintaining since 2016, almost 10 years.

    2025
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Projects

  • Flo Energy

    Contributed to early development of the whole systems — in-house ERP system, public-facing website, internal backend services, 3rd-party integration tooling, ci/cd pipelines, deployment management. More recently focused on internal platform tooling and developer experience improvements across the engineering org.

    CI/CD Python Platform Engineering Spring Boot Kotlin Renewable Energy
  • plymor

    Building my "dream tool" assisted by Claude Code - plymor — a vendor-neutral CI/CD tooling for building and deploying applications managed in a polyglot monorepo. Aims to provide a unified interface regardless of the underlying language, framework, or cloud target.

    Monorepo CI/CD Build Orchestrator Deployment Automation Docker
  • Harta

    An AI-powered expense tracking app that provides spending insights and cashflow projections. Proudly co-developed with Claude Code. Currently invite-only with limited anonymous usage — drop me an email if you're interested in trying it out!

    Side Project Cashflow Management AI Agent Expense Tracker Next.js Docker
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