Kurt VanDusen

Founder & Agentic AI Engineer

Grand Rapids, MIkurtvandusen@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/kurtvandusengithub.com/equationalapplicationsequationalapplications.com

Summary

Founder of Equational Applications LLC and builder of Clanker AI — a personal AI assistant with real-time voice, knowledge-graph memory, and agent tool loops, shipped solo to iOS, Android, and web. Author of the open-source LLM Wiki monorepo: seven MIT-licensed npm packages for agentic memory, OKF portability, and agent tooling, used in production. Agentic-first engineer working deep in memory internals — hybrid retrieval, ontology extraction, episodic memory, and prompt-injection trust boundaries — with 6+ years shipping mobile and web products. Available for select freelance and consulting work.

Recognition

Harvard Business School Foundry Bootcamp

July 2026 cohort — selected as an agentic AI venture founder.

Voyage Michigan — Conversations with Kurt VanDusen

Magazine feature, 2026.

Skills

Agentic AI
Agent tool loopsTool-calling schemasCapability-scoped tool injectionSemantic + hybrid retrievalKnowledge-graph / ontology extractionEpisodic memoryRAGWeb search groundingxState v5 orchestrationGemini Live bidirectional streamingPrompt-injection trust boundaries
AI & Cloud
Vertex AIGemini LiveAgent Development KitAnthropic ClaudeGoogle CloudFirebaseCloud SQLCloud RunLangFlowChromaDBLangChain
Frontend
React NativeExpoReactTypeScriptExpo RouterTailwind CSSReact Native PaperGemini Live WebSocket clients
Backend
Node.jsPostgreSQLApollo GraphQLFirebase FunctionsStripeSupabaseREST APIWebSocket streamingRevenueCat
DevOps
GitHub ActionsExpo EASDockerKubernetesSemantic ReleasexStateTanStack QueryBrowser extension (MV3)

Experience

Founder & Agentic AI EngineerMar 2020 – Present
Equational Applications LLC
  • Founded the company and built Clanker AI — a personal AI assistant with real-time Gemini Live voice, knowledge-graph memory, and agent tool loops — shipped solo to iOS, Android, and web (React Native, Expo, Vertex AI, Firebase, Cloud SQL, Stripe).
  • Author and maintainer of the LLM Wiki monorepo: 7 published MIT npm packages (core-llm-wiki, expo-llm-wiki, react-llm-wiki, core-llm-tools, core-okf, prisma-outbox, schema-org-llm-wiki).
  • Designed hybrid retrieval — cosine similarity fused with MiniSearch keyword scoring over a two-phase `preFilterLimit` SELECT — plus librarian, heal, and prune maintenance passes.
  • Implemented OKF `llm-wiki/1` import/export, a GDPR deletion-hook contract, transactional outbox sync, and multi-entity tiered reads.
  • Ship via agentic, spec-driven development: specs and plans reviewed and executed by AI agents under test.
  • Available for select freelance and consulting contracts.
Full Stack & Mobile EngineerOct 2023 – Mar 2026
Spectrum Net Designs, Inc
  • Full-stack and mobile development for Auctioneer Software across React, React Native (Expo), and Node.js.
  • Deployed and maintained applications on bare-metal Kubernetes infrastructure.
  • Managed Play Store and App Store release pipelines using Expo EAS and GitHub Actions.
  • Contributed across the entire stack from PostgreSQL schema design to mobile client.
Independent Web Developer2015 – 2020
Self-Employed
  • Maintained legacy client websites on WordPress, Drupal, PHP, and MySQL.
  • Pursued ongoing self-study in modern web development and software architecture.
Web Developer2001 – 2015
Alley Cat Bead Company
  • Developed and maintained Drupal e-commerce website for online retail store.
Owner2005 – 2010
Webstore Specialist
  • Website development for e-commerce clients and SEO services.

Projects

Clanker AIclanker-ai.com

Open-source personal AI assistant built in public. Assistants with a personality you design, real-time Gemini Live voice calls (barge-in, echo-cancelled speakerphone), LLM Wiki knowledge-graph memory, document understanding (PDF/Word/image), live web search grounding, browser bridge, xState v5 edge-agent orchestration, and Stripe subscriptions. iOS, Android, and web.

React NativeExpoTypeScriptVertex AIGemini LiveFirebasePostgreSQLStripexState v5GitHubReal-Time VoiceApp StoreGoogle Play
LLM Wiki Monorepoequationalapplications.com/products/memory

Seven MIT-licensed TypeScript packages for agentic memory: knowledge-graph retrieval (graph RAG) over a per-entity seeded ontology, episodic fact extraction, hybrid cosine + MiniSearch retrieval with a two-phase preFilterLimit SELECT, librarian/heal/prune background passes, OKF llm-wiki/1 import & export, a GDPR deletion-hook contract, transactional outbox sync, and multi-entity tiered reads. Zero runtime dependencies behind a SQLiteAdapter interface.

TypeScriptSQLiteGraph RAGOKFAgentic MemorynpmProduct Pagecore-llm-wikiGitHub
Marketing Agent — GCP + Vertex AI ADKgithub.com/equationalapplications/marketing-agent-gcp-adk

Hybrid marketing agent using Vertex AI Agent Builder and Cloud Run for production deployment.

Google CloudVertex AICloud RunADKGitHub
Firebase Auth → Supabase Bridgegithub.com/equationalapplications/firebase-auth-supabase-bridge

Exchange a Firebase Auth token for a real Supabase session without the Supabase SSO add-on.

Firebase AuthSupabaseNode.jsJWTGitHub

Certifications

Google Cloud Certified — Associate Cloud Engineer · GoogleAug 2023 · Expires Aug 2026
General Coding Assessment · CodeSignalDec 2022

Education

Honors Physics & Honors Calculus — University of Chicago1989 – 1990
Self-Taught DeveloperSince childhood

Created one of the first 3D first-person shooters in 1983. Built an artificial neural network on an Amiga in 1991.