About
Current identity, studies, projects, and professional direction.
I'm Ka Vatana. I founded CHNAI LAB, a Cambodia-first student product studio in Phnom Penh, and I am a Year 1 Software Engineering student. I own the studio and build most of what comes out of it.
CHNAI LAB runs seven public product tracks: point of sale for small shops, agricultural market access, student opportunities, medical exam practice, community moderation, trader tooling, and a learning management system. I lead product and engineering across them, and built two of them with Hongleng.
The studio also builds for clients. LEAP Everlasting Blooms sold handmade flower gifts through chat messages alone; it now has a storefront it owns at leapelb.store, with its own catalogue, accounts, checkout, and KHQR payment.
Alongside the studio I study Software Engineering at BELTEI International University and Year 1 English at IFL, and I do web system and digital project support work with Angkor Byte, where I am learning professional workflow, communication, implementation support, and Cambodia-Japan technology collaboration.
I want the public version of my identity to stay honest: I am not presenting myself as a senior developer. I am a student builder learning seriously through real projects, real community experience, and steady practice.
What I bring
- — Full-stack product builds in Nuxt or Next.js, from the data model to a deployed surface.
- — Founding and running a small product studio: scope, leads, review gates, and credit that holds up.
- — Cambodia-first product work in Khmer and English, including local payment and delivery realities.
- — AI-native engineering with scoped agent context and human approval for consequential actions.
- — Evidence discipline: keeping live, local, synthetic, and planned work separate in public claims.
- — Client delivery: a storefront or system the client can run after I hand it over.
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