I'm Kevin Arce, AI Native Engineer at TELUS Digital, on the SmartHome+ IoT platform. M.Sc. Quantum Computing in progress at Universidad de La Rioja, creator of Quantum Meowchanics, with an astrophysics side quest at ExoNotes. Scroll to explore the dashboard.
Universidad Francisco Gavidia — by way of Mathematics and Physics
A foundation built on mathematics, physics, and algorithms — the substrate every later backend and cloud decision stands on.
That foundation is what made the jump toward quantum systems a continuation, not a detour.
Universidad de La Rioja, Spain — in progress
Extending a CS + Math/Physics foundation into quantum systems: qubits, superposition, and measurement as the next layer of the same stack. Which means my code now works and fails simultaneously.
Written back out as Quantum Meowchanics .
same substrate, new state space.
AI Native Engineer — Current Role
Backend Engineer
Backend Engineer
Ad-honorem Researcher — Centro de Modelaje Matemático, Universidad Francisco Gavidia
Independent Developer
Not a skills dump — this is the map of where each thing gets used.
Build and operate the services behind a production IoT platform. Infrastructure as code, test automation for regression and progression, and an on-call rotation that occasionally disagrees with my sleep schedule.
Wiring models into products real people actually use — moderation bots, assistants, typed workflow graphs. And working agent-first day to day: user stories and a technical spec exist before anything gets delegated.
Small, opinionated CLIs and bots that each delete exactly one recurring annoyance — then actually get published instead of rotting in a folder.
scikit-learn, dataset building, and the occasional cryptography rabbit hole. Yes, I implemented Diffie–Hellman by hand. No, nobody asked me to.
Creator and maintainer of Quantum Meowchanics, first principles to AWS Braket. Where the Maths and Physics background stops being small talk and starts being homework.
Two long-running things that aren't side projects so much as a second and third stack.
Creator & maintainer
Quantum computing from first principles to AWS Braket — where the cat is in a superposition of understands quantum computing and does not, until you measure it with the exercises.
An offline-first e-learning platform and full curriculum: eight terms that start at classical mechanics and end at running circuits on AWS Braket. Built as a zoneless, prerendered Angular PWA with KaTeX for the maths, Python for the worked examples, and Leitner spaced-repetition flashcards so the material actually sticks.
Curriculum spine
Pre-registered study · astrophysics side quest
Do the free-text comments astronomers write on TESS Objects of Interest carry disposition-relevant information that the numeric catalogue columns do not?
A language model turns ExoFOP comments into numeric semantic features; gradient boosting is the predictor; grouped cross-validation by host star is the arbiter. The model's own probabilities are never thresholded into a decision — astrophysics is maximally out of distribution for it. A null result is a valid outcome, and the repo is built to report one honestly.
Pre-registered gates
47.9% of the comment corpus restates the label
A planet has a name only because it was confirmed, so a comment reading “WASP-68 b” is the label written in prose. TF-IDF on that text scores 0.969 AUC — that number is leakage, not signal, and must never be cited as evidence for the hypothesis.
A GitHub App that fails your PR when you quietly break your own API. It generates OpenAPI schemas for the PR and the base branch, diffs them, and checks that your version bump matches the size of the damage. Split into two layers on purpose: Probot owns GitHub, Actions owns compute.
A Reddit moderation bot that's actually live in Reddit's app directory. It ingests comments through the CommentSubmit trigger and runs them past an LLM — because, as its own tagline asks, was that comment written by a human or a slightly sentient toaster?
"Come with me if you want to deploy." npx envinator-cli walks your AST with ts-morph, finds every process.env you forgot to document, and interrogates you until your .env is complete. Real parsing, not regex — it won't be fooled by a comment. Masks secrets in its own logs.
A Bun project scaffolder written in Rust — my most-starred repo, later torn down and rebuilt around a Result<T, E> core with a modular, cross-platform layout. Shipped to crates.io, where it's been pulled 5k+ times.
About five years ago I built El Salvador's first Salvadoran Sign Language (LESSA) image dataset, because one didn't exist. It's since become one of the most downloaded open datasets to come out of the country.
My entire macOS terminal, reduced to one install.sh. Ghostty + Starship + zoxide/fzf/eza/bat/yazi/lazygit, with Catppuccin that follows the system between light and true-black OLED dark. Backs up your .zshrc before it touches a thing.
Chased a headset pairing bug down to the USB layer of an open-source SteelSeries driver and fixed it upstream: device reset on initialization, re-claiming interfaces after kernel detach. Merged.
A Flutter German-learning app from the Firebase era, and one of the first things I ever sold. Still the reason I know exactly what a StreamBuilder does.