# Kevin Trinh

> Kevin Trinh is an engineer and researcher in Houston, Texas. He builds and ships full-stack products and publishes research on data ownership, privacy, and security.

Kevin Trinh is an engineer and researcher in Houston, Texas. Contact: kevintrinhdev@gmail.com. Site: https://kevintrinh.dev. This file lists everything published on the site with a one-line summary; each linked page carries the full text, and research notes publish their abstract, method, limits and sources.

## Projects

- [Gaze](https://kevintrinh.dev/projects/gaze/): A command-line tool that drives the browser you are already signed in to, and asks before anything on the page changes. (Status: Live.)
- [Dispatch](https://kevintrinh.dev/projects/dispatch/): A CLI that routes a task to the right AI provider CLI by data-sensitivity tier, cheapest eligible provider first, with verification before it trusts an answer. (Status: Live.)
- [Inkboard](https://kevintrinh.dev/projects/inkboard/): A teaching-board recorder that keeps handwriting as data instead of baking it into video. (Status: Prototype.)

## Writing

- [You own the device. Do you own what it knows?](https://kevintrinh.dev/writing/you-own-the-device-do-you-own-what-it-knows/): Cameras, cars, DNA tests, phone records, password managers and AI chats all show the same pattern: when someone else holds the data, their systems become part of your risk.

## Research

- [What public breaches actually show about who controls your data](https://kevintrinh.dev/research/data-ownership-third-party-risk/): Public incidents show that data risk extends past the company you chose, to its credentials, employees, contractors, dependencies, connected devices, and legal obligations.
- [Next up](https://kevintrinh.dev/research/next-up/): The next research note is being written. It ships with its method, its limits, and its sources, like the rest.

## About

- [About](https://kevintrinh.dev/about/): who Kevin Trinh is and what he is working on.
- [Contact](https://kevintrinh.dev/contact/): how to reach him for hiring, client work or product review.

## Elsewhere

- Email: mailto:kevintrinhdev@gmail.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/KevinTrinhDev
- X: https://x.com/KevinTrinhDev
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kevintrinhdev
- YouTube: https://youtube.com/@KevinTrinhDev