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Call Me Kes!
Call Me Kes!
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Profile picture of Kesku, art is of Usada Pekora from Hololive by @isukash

Art by @romye_99

Art by @isukash

UK-based developer working @ Perplexity AI. I work on developer platform and ecosystem systems sitting somewhere between product, engineering, and community

most of what I do is focused on taking things that are technically powerful and making them actually usable by developers, both pros and claudophiles

What I actually work on

What I'm Into

Gaming

Big fan of Yakuza, Zenless Zone Zero, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA Online, and Minecraft.

as a kid, I'd play till late at night, and minecraft was all I dreamt about. now the music sends me back in time when I hear it, and with vr (through Vivecraft), I'm closer to it than ever.

BTW: I use a Varjo VR-3 for my VR gaming.

Community

Moderating communities since I was 11, starting on old Amino forums.

later helped scale the OpenAI Discord to ~3.5m users (at one point the 2nd largest server on the platform).

I'm interested in how they function as systems, not just for engagement, but also knowledge distribution (shoutout answer overflow), support, and feedback loops.

"Kesku" is an acronym

"kesku" stands for Keep Everything Simple, Keep Understanding.

that mindset guides everything I do. if something is powerful but still hard to get, it’s not done. I want to understand both what it is and why it works; if I can’t, it needs clearer explanations and better examples.

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