ken sugsavanvit
i grew up in bangkok and study computer science and economics at wesleyan, class of 2029. i build things: a fitness app for hybrid athletes, a trading system that runs while i'm in class, films. i like making things far more than consuming them; that's most of what you need to know about me.
the longer version, in order
2006–2019
as a kid in bangkok i went to art school on weekends and drew for ten hours at a stretch. making a piece other people could stand in front of was one of the best feelings i knew, and it still is. at fourteen i picked up my dad's camera; i didn't know what i was doing, but i knew what i liked when i saw it, and the color-grading obsession never left (gawx and sleepy charlie are to blame).
somewhere in there i also started competing in speedcubing, which is still the cleanest hobby i have; you either got faster or you didn't, and the timer doesn't care how you feel about it.
2020–2022
covid lockdown. a senior took me on a jog and i fell into running; too far, honestly, in a way that stopped being healthy. climbing back to balance is where my one tattoo comes from, a line through a circle: the middle ground. reality usually lands somewhere between your brightest expectations and your darkest preparations, and finding the correct point takes real judgment, the way a doctor finds the right dose instead of splitting the difference.
i started lifting on december 14, 2022 and haven't missed a week since. half marathon in 1:31; bench 265 lb at 150 bodyweight. both, not either.
2022–2024
turned the camera into kenfilms: $10k+ in freelance revenue, a youtube channel past 2m views and 6,000 subscribers, cinematic promos for startups (cluely, captions AI, superprofile). along the way i taught video editing to 40+ kids of incarcerated parents, and a short film i made got showcased at a small festival; my family came to watch.
spent the summer of 2024 at CMKL (carnegie mellon × KMITL) as a research assistant, working on deep learning training efficiency and model interpretability.
2025
came to wesleyan as a freeman asian scholar: a full ride given to eleven students across asia. built alphascanner, because my dad has traded stocks full-time for a decade, and somewhere around the hundredth indicator he explained to me i thought: there has to be a way to backtest these.
2026, now
built hybridaf solo, a production fitness app for hybrid athletes, because the existing ones make you pick between endurance and strength and i don't accept that premise. research assistant at wesleyan's privacy tech lab under prof. sebastian zimmeck, where we're trying to work out what global privacy control should look like for AI agents. GPC already works on the web; the open question is what happens once an agent is acting on your behalf and handing your request off to other agents, because your opt-out has to survive every hop or it may as well not exist. we're building it over the model context protocol. still very much in progress. data science intern at KBTG (kasikorn bank), predictive modeling on non-performing assets and property appraisal. head of growth at spike, where a UGC playbook i built scaled short-form retention past 500k views.
what i want long-term, i'm not sure yet; i just know i want to see people benefit from what i build.
things i've made
hybridaf
next.js · postgres · claude api · ios
multi-tenant fitness app with an LLM coach that schedules recovery-aware sessions into your real calendar gaps. clerk auth, google calendar, strava and apple healthkit integrations, custom native ios app. built and shipped alone.
alphascanner
python · wrds/crsp · alpaca
six swing strategies backtested across 735 US equities and 25 years of CRSP data, walk-forward validated down to 49 survivors. runs automatically with ATR stops, and every trade it takes is published openly at strategygrade.io, drawdowns included. what i actually learned
zig zag indicator
pine script · tradingview
array-based zig zag plus a square-wave state machine for multi-timeframe structure shifts. published on tradingview and used by 30+ traders.
kenfilms
youtube · 2m+ views
travel films, brand work, and experiments. also where i learned that color grading is most of the story.
on film
the two i'm proudest of. one to move you, one to sit with.
otherwise
i've competed in speedcubing since 2019. 8.25 second single and 9.04 average on 3x3, which is 51st in thailand; the full damage is on my wca profile.
still running and lifting, most of it logged on strava. right now that training has a date attached to it: hyrox on august 14, 2026.
the one-pager
people still ask for one of these, so here it is. a few years flattened into eight bullet points, which is a strange way to describe a person; the version with the actual reasoning is further up this page. my phone number is blacked out for the obvious reason, so just email me.
