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.
Official programs
Claude Code Ambassador
One of Anthropic's official Claude Code Ambassadors representing Ireland. Hosting meetups, running workshops, and growing the Dublin Claude Code community.
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.
Hackathon wins
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
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)
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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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.
Latest writing
Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code: How One Prompt Ran 160 Agents for 3 Hours
One prompt. 3h 12m. 11.4M tokens. 160 agents. Inside the dynamic workflow and ultracode setup that built a complete research wiki autonomously on Claude Opus 4.8 — and how to build the loop yourself.
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
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
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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Have a project, a hackathon to sponsor, or a team to train? Get in touch and let's build something.