Founder · Chief Technology Officer

Otto Kafka

Founder and former CTO with 10+ years turning emerging technology into market-ready products. Teams built and led across the United States, Europe, China, and Malaysia.

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10+ Years Experience
6+ Years as CTO
4 Countries
Otto Kafka
About

Technology leader with a builder's mindset

I'm a founder and former CTO with more than ten years of experience turning emerging technology into market-ready products, including six years leading technology and engineering organizations in security and financial technology.

I've built and led teams across the United States, Europe, China, and Malaysia. I set strategy, manage fundraising and partnerships, and take products from concept to launch, and I still build: native applications, large-scale systems, and the infrastructure behind them.

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Scale

Real-time platforms processing petabytes of data in Go and C++.

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Security

SIEM, EDR, and secure-by-design architecture across cloud and on-prem.

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AI & LLMs

Private enterprise LLM deployments and ML-driven detection in production.

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International

Built and led teams across the United States, Europe, China, and Malaysia.

Experience

Career timeline

United States

Founder & CEO

Little AI Labs

  • Founded the company; own vision, product strategy, and technical direction.
  • Lead fundraising, partnerships, and go-to-market for an AI product.
Malaysia

Chief Technology Officer

Malaysian startups

  • Set technology strategy and built the engineering organization behind the company's SIEM/EDR products.
  • Took petabyte-scale, ML and LLM-driven threat detection from concept to production.

Tech Content Creator

YouTube

  • Built a global developer audience teaching mobile and backend development.
Shenzhen, China

Full Stack Developer

WaykiChain 维基链

  • Delivered blockchain platform services and developer tooling for a public chain.
  • Led developer relations: conferences and hackathons across Asia and Europe.
Beijing, China

Blockchain Developer

Nebulas.io

  • Delivered smart contracts, dApps, and backend services for a public blockchain.
Education

Academic background

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Beihang University

Master's degree, Computer Science

Beijing, China

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University of the Pacific

Bachelor's degree, Communications

California, USA

Expertise

Technical capabilities

Technology Leadership

Technology Strategy Architecture Hiring & Mentoring Vendor & Partner Management Product Roadmaps

AI & Machine Learning

LLM-based Products Private Enterprise LLMs ML-driven Detection GPU Infrastructure

Cybersecurity

SIEM / EDR Threat Detection Threat Modeling Secure Development Incident Response

Large-scale Systems

Petabyte-scale Platforms Real-time Data Go C++

Full-stack Delivery

Native Apps: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux Swift C++ Flutter Infrastructure & Data Centers PostgreSQL Linux Docker

Domains

Cybersecurity FinTech & Blockchain AdTech

Certifications

  • Introduction to Embedded Machine Learning — Coursera Verify ↗
  • Artificial Intelligence Foundations: Neural Networks — LinkedIn Learning Verify ↗
  • The Future of Payment Technologies — Coursera Verify ↗
Contact

Let's build something

Open to CTO, VP Engineering, and advisory roles.

✉ Email otto@little-ai-labs.top in LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/ottokafka 🌐 Website ottokafka.github.io
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