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Kevin Collins, founder of Echofold

Kevin Collins

Founder of Echofold, Claude Code Ambassador for Ireland, and Manus AI Fellow.

I build AI systems and ship production software from Dublin. I've led teams to win the National AI Challenge and AWS Breaking Barriers, placed top 6 from 13,000 at Anthropic's Claude Code hackathon, train teams on AI across Ireland, and run hackathons and meetups for the Irish AI community.

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Kevin Collins, Claude Code Ambassador for Ireland, presenting on stage at Anthropic's Code with Claude event
Claude Code
Ambassador · Ireland

Claude Code Ambassador

One of Anthropic's official Claude Code Ambassadors representing Ireland. Hosting meetups, running workshops, and growing the Dublin Claude Code community.

Kevin Collins, inaugural Manus AI Fellow, presenting a How to Win a Hackathon talk in a Manus t-shirt
Manus AI
Fellow

Manus AI Fellow

Inaugural Manus AI Fellow. Helping shape the platform's direction, building reference projects, and bringing Manus to Irish startups and engineering teams.

Award-winning

Hackathon wins

National AI Challenge 2025 - 1st Place
1st Place
September 2025

National AI Challenge 2025

Led Team LaunchLoop to first place with GradGenie, grading 61,000 Leaving Cert exams in 1 week instead of 26 days. Saves €48 million annually.

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AWS Breaking Barriers Hackathon - 1st Place
1st Place
November 2025

AWS Breaking Barriers Hackathon

Led Team LaunchLoop to first place at AWS Breaking Barriers with ARANO, a hierarchical agentic orchestration system for autonomous network optimisation. $5,000 prize, 377 participants.

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Claude Code Hackathon (Anthropic) - Top 6 of 13,000
Top 6 of 13,000
March 2026

Claude Code Hackathon (Anthropic)

Placed top 6 from 13,000 applicants at Anthropic's 'Built with Opus 4.6' hackathon with Carn.ie, an autonomous drone search and rescue system. Built solo in 6 days.

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Production Vibe Coding

Production Vibe Coding course - learn to build and deploy production-grade software with Claude Code, Manus, SonarQube and AWS
Course1h 39m•€99 one-time

Ship production-grade websites with AI

The exact workflow I use to go from zero to a fully deployed website. Research with Manus, document in Obsidian, build with Claude Code, scan with SonarQube, deploy on AWS. No prior coding experience required.

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Harness Engineering: The Only Way to Get Ahead in AI Coding

When everyone has access to the same frontier models, the harness is the only remaining differentiator. A complete guide to harness engineering for AI coding agents.

Karpathy's LLM Wiki: How We Built a 2,188-Document Knowledge Base from AI Research
Tutorial11th April 2026

Karpathy's LLM Wiki: How We Built a 2,188-Document Knowledge Base from AI Research

A practical implementation of Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern. 1,414 research tasks, 2,188 documents categorised through GPT-5.4, all in Obsidian for under $50.

How to Fully Automate Claude Code: The Ultimate Guide to Autonomous AI Development
Tutorial5th April 2026

How to Fully Automate Claude Code: The Ultimate Guide to Autonomous AI Development

Build a 100% autonomous pipeline: PRD to Jira tickets, hooks for quality gates, SonarQube scanning, code simplification, and Chrome DevTools verification.

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