Founder · CTO · Full Stack Engineer

Otto Kafka

Building high-performance systems at petabyte scale — from SIEM & EDR platforms to LLM-powered AI products — now building Little AI Labs.

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9+ Years Experience
6+ Years as CTO
PB Scale Data
Otto Kafka
About

Engineering leader with a builder's mindset

Driven software developer from California with a passion for programming since age 12. I lead teams that ship production systems at extreme scale — from petabytes of security telemetry to real-time FinTech platforms — and teach thousands of developers through my YouTube coding tutorials.

Today I'm the Founder of Little AI Labs, leading product, technology, and fundraising for a market-ready AI product. Before that, I spent six years as CTO for Malaysian startups, balancing 80% hands-on engineering with 20% leadership — mentoring developers, driving hiring, and architecting ML/LLM-powered threat detection.

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High Performance

Python, Golang, C++ systems engineered for real-time, petabyte-scale workloads.

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Security First

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

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AI & LLMs

Private enterprise LLM deployments, GPU clustering, and ML-driven threat detection.

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Global Experience

Led teams across California, Malaysia, China — FinTech, AdTech, Telco, and CyberSec.

Experience

Career timeline

United States

Founder

Little AI Labs

  • Drive the company's vision, technology, and business growth as Founder & CEO.
  • Translate deep industry insights from my co-founder into a robust, scalable, market-ready AI product.
  • Lead all strategic, technical, and commercial aspects of the venture, from concept and prototype to customer acquisition and fundraising.
  • Primary architect of the product's technical strategy and public face of the company to investors, partners, and clients.
Malaysia

Chief Technology Officer

Malaysian startups

  • Led development of SIEM and EDR solutions, integrating ML and LLMs for advanced threat detection across Windows/Linux servers and FortiGate routers.
  • Engineered high-performance systems using Python, Golang, and C++ to process petabyte-scale data with scalable real-time monitoring.
  • Automated security alerts and incident response workflows with scripting, enhancing operational efficiency.
  • Applied threat modeling, secure coding, and network security expertise to strengthen system defenses.
  • Mentored junior developers and led hiring — 80% coding, 20% management.

Tech Content Creator

YouTube

  • Coding tutorials — front-end: Flutter for iOS, Android, Web, and Desktop.
  • Back-end: Node.js and Go.
Shenzhen, China

Full Stack Developer

WaykiChain 维基链

  • Developed and maintained backend APIs utilizing Node.js.
  • Collaborated with test engineers on Python test scripts for stress and general testing.
  • Built software in C++, Python, JavaScript, and Golang with Docker, Ubuntu Server, Git, and Bash.
  • Updated developer documentation and streamlined developer tools.
  • Organized and led technical conferences and hackathons in South Korea, Serbia, Montenegro, and Japan.
Beijing, China

Software Developer

Nebulas.io

  • Updated backend APIs with Node.js.
  • Updated developer documentation.
  • Languages & frameworks: JavaScript / Node.js, React.js, Python.
Expertise

Technical skills

Languages & Runtimes

Python Golang C++ Node.js JavaScript

Front-end & Mobile

React Redux Flutter HTML/CSS

Infrastructure & Data

PostgreSQL Linux GPU Clustering Docker Real-time Systems

Domains

SIEM / EDR LLMs / ML Cybersecurity FinTech / DeFi AdTech / DSP

Certifications

  • Getting Started with Go — Coursera
  • Server-side Development with NodeJS, Express and MongoDB — Coursera
  • Advanced Linux: The Linux Kernel — LinkedIn Learning
  • Advanced Node.js: Scaling Applications — LinkedIn Learning
  • AI Foundations: Neural Networks — LinkedIn Learning
  • Front End Development — freeCodeCamp
  • Blockchain Transformations of Financial Services — Coursera
Contact

Let's build something

Open to senior engineering leadership, CTO advisory, and high-impact technical roles.

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