Kevin Anrique Portfolio

Personal portfolio for Kevin Anrique, Founder & CTO of Cachin, building crypto payment rails, AI agents, and privacy-focused apps.

The site highlights current work first, especially Cachin, while keeping older projects, writing, contact paths, and an AI chatbot available from a small, fast Next.js interface.

Features

• Project showcase ordered by current importance
• Cachin-first public positioning and private-project case studies
• AI chatbot trained on portfolio pages, data files, and post metadata
• MDX blog
• Contact form and calendar embed
• Dark/light theme support
• Vercel Analytics and Speed Insights

Stack

• Next.js App Router
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Radix UI primitives
• LangChain and OpenAI for chatbot/retrieval
• Astra DB vector storage
• Upstash Redis cache
• Resend contact email
• Vercel deployment

Development

Install dependencies:

pnpm install

Create local environment variables:

cp .env.example .env.local

Required values for the full chatbot/contact flow:

OPENAI_API_KEY=
UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL=
UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN=
ASTRA_DB_API_ENDPOINT=
ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN=
ASTRA_DB_COLLECTION=
RESEND_API_KEY=

Run locally:

pnpm run dev

Generate chatbot embeddings:

pnpm run gen

Build:

pnpm run build

Build after refreshing chatbot embeddings:

pnpm run build:with-gen

Content

• Project data: src/data/projects.json
• Career data: src/data/career.json
• Education data: src/data/education.json
• Social links: src/data/socials.json
• Blog posts: content/*.mdx
• Portfolio refresh spec: docs/specs/portfolio-refresh-2026.md

Private repos should be presented as sanitized case studies. Do not add private source links unless the repo is intentionally made public.

Contact

• Portfolio: https://kevan.ar
• Email: hey@kevan.ar
• GitHub: https://github.com/kevan1
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevinanrique