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My name is Quan (pronounced "kwan"). I'm a software engineer based in NYC.

I currently work at Firsthand, a B2B marketing AI agent platform. Before that, I worked on commercial, open-source software projects in cancer research and LLM deployment.

I'm online as @qu8n on GitHub and LinkedIn, and @_qu8n on X.

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  • Blog content is written in MDX (Markdown + JSX), then rendered by Fumadocs.
  • The fonts used are Inter, Instrument Serif, and Berkeley Mono.
  • qu8n mimics Kubernetes' k8s: 8 = 8 characters inside my name Quan Nguyen.