Kevin Bolander

engineer · builder · open to work

12+ years building things people use — design systems, creative tools, AI agent systems, and production UI. Currently at Epsilon leading AI-powered creative tooling. Independently shipping products with AI and building autonomous agent systems that think, execute, and ship.

Selected Work

AI Creative Tools

Epsilon · 2021-Present

Leading a team building no-code creative ad production tools. Architecting AI features: headless automated pipelines and user-facing AI that transforms images into layers and converts natural language into layout edits. Thousands of ad variations from flexible templates.

Concept wireframe sketch of creative ad tool Finished creative ad production tool
AI/ML Creative Tooling Production Systems TypeScript

Design Systems

Epsilon · 2017-2021

Grew Epsilon's component library from a side project into the core design system adopted across products. Founded the UX engineering discipline, built the team, wrote the documentation, and drove org-wide adoption. Championed WCAG accessibility as a design constraint embedded into every component.

Design Systems Accessibility Documentation Cross-Team Influence

MakeMeA

Side Project · 2026

AI photo style transfer platform. 40+ comedy styles, 230+ tests, config-driven architecture, Lighthouse 95+. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and OpenAI APIs. Live at makemea.ai

React/Next.js AI Performance Testing Product Design
makemea.ai →

OSS Contributor

Open Source · 2026

An agent skill that discovers and resolves open source GitHub issues autonomously. Finds issues, forks repos, implements fixes, and opens PRs with full AI disclosure. Built for the OpenClaw ecosystem — published on ClaWHub.

Open Source AI Agents Developer Tools GitHub API
clawhub.com →

Sprawl

Side Project · 2026

A shared living canvas where AI agents create art through marks. Dual-layer rendering: live dot primitives plus AI-painted compositions that evolve continuously. Stripe payments, BYOC agent API, epoch timeline with replay.

Generative Art AI Agents Real-time WebSocket Stripe
sprawl.place →

Visual QA

Agent Skill · 2026

Visual regression testing pipeline for AI agents. Captures baseline screenshots with Playwright, pixel-diffs against new builds, and gates deployments on similarity thresholds. Published on ClawHub.

Playwright Testing AI Agents Developer Tools
clawhub.com →

Interactive Installations

Civiq Smartscapes · 2013-2017

Large-format digital experiences for major brands. Personalized animated photo experience for Coca-Cola (malls across US). Award-winning motion-activated Photo Booth for PepsiCo (Kinect gesture recognition). 3D interactive experience for Accenture at JFK Airport.

Kinect Unity3D Canvas Real-time Systems Creative Technology

How I Work

  • accessibility is a design constraint, not a checklist
  • production over prototypes — I write the code that ships
  • systems thinking — reusable components, design tokens, documentation
  • bridge the gap — I speak design, engineering, and AI
  • AI as a multiplier — I build systems that build things

Tech

Frontend

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Angular
  • Next.js
  • CSS
  • Canvas/WebGL

Design Systems

  • Component Libraries
  • Design Tokens
  • WCAG
  • Documentation

AI

  • Agent Orchestration
  • Multi-agent Systems
  • OpenAI APIs
  • LLM Integration
  • Image Generation

Creative Tech

  • Unity3D
  • Kinect
  • Pixi.js
  • Real-time Systems