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Calvin Kennedy · Newcastle, Australia

Software engineer.

I build full-stack applications and AI tools, with experience in school operations, 3D editing and agent systems. Today I mostly check software that AI wrote.

Calvin Kennedy

Selected contributions

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BESF · Software delivery

Checking what AI builds

Generated apps could look finished while buttons failed and work disappeared on reload. I built a process that checks the app, sends failures back for repair and checks again.

On SignalDeck, recorded audits went from 122 failures to zero locally. Hosted login and persistence still needed separate verification.

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Content Machine · Developer tooling

Making video work inspectable

A finished video hides the decisions made along the way. I’m building a video skill pack for coding agents that keeps intermediate artifacts available for inspection.

The public repository contains the instructions and examples. Generated videos still need editorial and rendered review.

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Now

I check apps, automations and code changes built with AI before customers use them. Each problem I report is one I reproduced, and I say what I did not check. The open-source tools I use for that are at github.com/45ck, including noslop and manual-qa-machine.

How I work · github.com/45ck

Career history

  1. Dec 2024Present

    SDA NNSW Education

    Software Developer

    Full-stack development for a multi-tenant school operations application, including role-based access, audit trails and integrations.

    Laravel / PHP · React · Tailwind
  2. Jan 2025Dec 2025

    Appaca

    Work Integrated Learning — Software Engineering

    An AI agent engine with tool schemas, multi-step orchestration and evaluation scripts, connected to an application frontend and authentication.

    Python · Nuxt.js · Supabase · MongoDB
  3. Jan 2023Nov 2024

    Cordel

    Casual Fullstack Web Developer

    Interfaces for 3D LiDAR point-cloud editing, full-stack defect repairs and migration from Razor pages to React components.

    React · C# / .NET · LiDAR
  4. Jul 2021Sep 2024

    Macquarie College

    Casual ICT Technician & PHP Developer

    Internal onboarding and management tools, systems integrations and automation, alongside student service-desk and technical project support.

    PHP · jQuery · PowerShell · ICT support
  5. Aug 2019Jul 2021

    TGI Fridays

    Casual Service Assistant

    Front-of-house service: seating, orders, food running and coordination with the kitchen and serving team.

    Customer service · Hospitality

Education

University of Newcastle

Software Engineering (Honours), bachelor’s degree
January 2022 — November 2026 (expected)

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