Every product starts as fog.
A hunch, a complaint, a sketch on a napkin. I like it here — fog is where the interesting problems hide, and where most teams stall.
Kevin (K2) Tu · Product × AI × Design Engineering
Fuzzy ideas in.Working products out.
I’m K2 — a product manager who still ships code. I use product thinking, AI systems and design engineering to turn half-formed ideas into products that actually run.
Now: Sr. PM, AI @ Agora — building Agent Studio
Stage 01 / 05The Fog Stage 02 / 05The Lighthouse Find the real problem.
Before anything gets built, I get painfully clear on who it’s for, what “working” means, and what we’re choosing not to do. Roadmaps, pricing and positioning are just that clarity, written down.
Stage 03 / 05The AI Core Wire in real intelligence.
RAG, prompt pipelines, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, real-time voice agents. I design AI systems that customers pay for — not demos that die after the keynote.
Stage 04 / 05The Workshop Build it for real.
A decade-plus as an engineer means I prototype in production-grade code, not slides. Design, front-end, accessibility — the details that make a product feel inevitable.
Stage 05 / 05The Launch Pad Ship it. Watch it run.
Then the only metric that matters: real people using the thing. At Firework that meant AI products used by enterprise and S&P 500 brands. At Agora, it’s voice agents running at scale.
Now playing
Building Agent Studio at Agora.
I lead Agent Studio — Agora’s platform for building and deploying AI voice agents at scale. I own the roadmap, pricing and positioning, working across product, engineering and go-to-market.
- 15+years shipping on the websince 2011 — Boston to the Bay
- 6AI patent filingsco-inventor · generative video, 2024
- 2×founderQuikForce · Life Is Limited
Selected builds
Things I’ve taken from fog to shipped.
Two products I’m building with AI agents, AI products from my day jobs at Agora and Firework, and craft projects for clients — each one started as a fuzzy idea.
- Now
Agent Studio
A platform for building and deploying AI voice agents at scale. I lead roadmap, pricing and positioning across product, engineering and GTM.
Makeready
A proofing platform for design studios. It lines up approved copy against the finished PDF, flags missing, extra and changed text — Chinese included — and tracks review to sign-off.
makeready.design · in progressKarakuma
Karaoke-party rooms in the browser. Open a room, share a link or QR code, and friends queue YouTube songs from their phones into one live playlist. Built with AI coding agents.
karakuma.comAVA — AI Virtual Assistant
A video-native shopping assistant with a face, a voice and a brand-tuned brain, built on multimodal models and each brand’s own video library.
firework.comElephant Gym
The official website for Taiwanese math-rock band Elephant Gym: a custom WordPress theme running as a Vue app, later extended with a trilingual personality test for their album Dreams.
elephantgym.coFantimate Club
A patron-style platform that gives creators a public space to connect with their fans. Client work: early front-end on the club app, plus Shopify pages for artist and fan campaigns.
club.fantimate.com
Quest log
Engineer → PM → AI Builder.
Fifteen years, ten levels. I started by writing the front-end, then founded, then moved into product — and never stopped building along the way.
Spawn pointB.S., Computer Science & EngineeringYuan Ze University
World 3AI Builder
- Lv.102025 — now
Sr. Product Manager, AI · Agora
Agent Studio — AI voice agents at scale.
- Lv.092021 — now
Founder & Principal · Life Is Limited Corp
Product, brand and software for artists and musicians in Taiwan.
World 2Engineer → PM
- Lv.082020 — 2025
Product Manager · Firework
AI products for enterprise & S&P 500 customers.
- Lv.072017 — 2019
Senior UI Developer · Liaison International
Accessible front-end for a national admissions platform.
- Lv.062016 — 2017
Senior Frontend Developer · Gamer Sensei
Rebuilt the product into a full e-commerce platform; SEO, testing, mentoring.
World 1Boston builder
- Lv.052015 — 2016
Co-founder & CTO · QuikForce
ML-matched moving marketplace, Cambridge, MA.
- Lv.042013 — 2015
Web Developer · EF Educational Tours
Web development for educational travel.
- Lv.032011 — 2014
Contractor · MIT Media Lab
Projects with professors and students.
- Lv.022012 — 2013
Junior UI Developer · Online Buddies
Main product front-end and Asian-language support.
- Lv.012011 — 2012
Software Developer · Sourcemap
Supply-chain mapping for desktop and mobile.
AchievementsPatents & awards
- Pat ×62024
Co-inventor, 6 patent filings · generative video & synthetic hosts
- Text-driven AI-assisted short-form video creation in an e-commerce environment US 2024/0185306 A1
- Augmented performance replacement in a short-form video US 2024/0233775 A1 WO 2024/151578 A1
- Livestream with synthetic scene insertion US 2024/0267573 A1
- Dynamic synthetic video chat agent replacement US 2024/0290024 A1
- Expandable video loop with replacement audio US 2024/0428827 A1
- Win2014
IDHack Grand Prize · Team lead, Peace Corps opportunity portal
Rebuilt the Peace Corps volunteer-recruiting portal around a simple, personalized workflow.
- Win2014
BattleHack context.io Prize · Lead developer, PotholeSonar
Sound alerts that steer cyclists around potholes, built on Boston open data and GPS.
Side quests · Community
I build communities, too.
Taiwanese-American civic life, philosophy nights and Pride — the same muscle as product: gather people around a fuzzy idea, then make it real.
SF Taiwan Day 2024
A day of baseball and Taiwanese heritage at the Oakland Coliseum, where NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang threw the ceremonial first pitch.
TARO — Taiwanese American Roots Organization
Connecting people to Taiwan through educational and cultural programs — sports, music and the arts. I also built its website.
taro-us.orgFAPA Northern California
The Formosan Association for Public Affairs: Taiwan advocacy with Congress, plus community events across the Bay Area.
SF Pride · Team Taiwan
Marketing and PR for Team Taiwan, the Taiwanese contingent marching in the San Francisco Pride Parade.
Café Philo (哲學星期五)
The Taipei-born civic salon for thinking out loud together. I hosted conversations and designed event visuals for its Boston and Bay Area chapters.
Voice AI Mixer · Boston Tech Week
Brought together founders, operators and investors building in voice and conversational AI, as part of Convo AI World Boston.
MIT Cambridge Chinese Choral Society
Led the choir in sharing cultures with the community through the study and performance of choral music.
The most passionate and creative PM I have ever worked with.
Jing ChenDirector of Engineering, Firework
Press start
Got a fuzzy idea? Let’s make it run.
Voice agents, AI products, zero-to-one builds — or just trading notes on product craft. My inbox is open.