Cade Kukk

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Software engineer
AI educator
Political scientist

I build software, train models
and ask who it serves.

Farmville, Virginia
37.30° N 78.39° W
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Building since 2014

Building software, questioning who it serves, training the models and teaching the next people to do it, on and off the screen.

Cade in a green hoodie sitting on outdoor stairs — Stairwell, portrait session

It doesn't matter where you start. It's how you keep building from there.

Cade in a tuxedo in front of lit city towers — Black tie

Cade racing a city road race in a pink and purple singlet — Race day

Cade working on a laptop on a bridge at dusk — Bridge, after dark

Cade in a tuxedo on a city street at night — City lights

Cade in a jacket in front of a wooden door — Doors

Cade running along a mountain ridge at sunrise above the clouds — Sunrise, up high

Since I opened my first phone at fourteen, I've wanted to know how things break, and to build things that don't.

Cade in a tuxedo sitting in an empty city road at night, working on a laptop — Mid-road

Cade on camera in episode two of his AI series — On camera, EP 02

Cade at a concert grand piano in white tie, head bowed over the keys — Recital

Cade running a forest trail — Into the trees

Projects

Open-source apps, models, tools and research, and the things I've done off GitHub, from a repair bench in 2017 to an 8B model on a laptop.

See more projects and experiments
from Cade on GitHub

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AI educator

Teaching AIacross ninecounties

An educational series and classroom program for the AI Innovation Challenge, funded by OpenAI through the SOVA and SEED Innovation Hubs. Teams pick a real problem in their community, then build and test a solution for the March 2027 showcase.

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Worked with&learned from

From a phone repair shop to a university AI program: the places that trusted me to build, fix and teach.