Postdoc who builds startups on the side and hacks whatever's left. I care about systems that compound — research that generates leverage, products that scale themselves, ideas that keep paying out. This is where I think out loud.
Hey. I'm Huankai.
Research Associate by day. Founder by night. The boundary between the two is a compile error I stopped fixing.
I reverse-engineer broken systems and ship replacements. Built Topy AI to patch the co-founder problem. Forked that into AI CMO when GTM kept killing startups. Now CTO at Dhahaby — rewriting credit infrastructure because the legacy stack deserves to be deprecated.
Root access to: AI, fintech, security, and the gap between what's published and what actually works.
Current exploit: automate the income, free the time, enjoy the output.
Building gold-backed credit infrastructure for next-generation lending using real-world luxury assets — gold, jewellery, high-end timepieces. The rails for transparent, fair, and instant credit. Won the TON x Ignyte Challenge, shipped the core MVP, and designed the dynamic credit engine behind the Dhahaby Card.
UK spa and massage discovery platform. Find and compare wellness services across 15+ cities — no accounts, no ads, no sponsored placements. Built for local relevance, service clarity, and direct booking.
AI visibility tracking for businesses that can't afford enterprise tools. Monitors how AI search engines — Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini — describe and reference your brand. Track mentions, positioning, and competitive context in AI-generated answers over time.
Working on EU H2020 COLA (Cloud Orchestration at the Level of Application) — investigating a generic, pluggable framework for optimal and secure deployment and run-time orchestration of cloud applications. Also contributing to H2020 CloudiFacturing (Cloudification of Production Engineering for Predictive Digital Manufacturing), advancing cloud-based modelling, simulation, and data analytics for real-time support to European manufacturing SMEs.
EPSRC project: Unified Stream and Transaction Processing — sitting at the interface of Distributed and Database Systems research. Integrating models of Stream and Transaction processing to develop next-generation big data processing systems. Storm/Trident, Spark Streaming → what's next? SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL → what's next?
I write to clarify what I believe, pressure-test ideas, and leave a trail of useful thinking behind.
“Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.” — Forrest Gump