My Journey
Los Angeles → Oak Ridge
My name is Kwali Roman Bunker. I was born in Los Angeles, California, and my path has taken many twists and turns. In 2015, at fourteen, I moved to Oak Ridge, North Carolina, to live with my grandparents, finishing high school at Quality Education Academy in 2017. After graduation, I returned to Los Angeles and enrolled in community college because my mother insisted I pursue higher education. I wanted film production. The school didn’t offer it. They placed me in theater.
Realizing I’m a Builder, Not a Performer
Within a semester, I knew it wasn’t my path. I wasn’t meant to be on a stage; I was meant to build the stage, the camera, the world behind it. That early creative impulse never left, but it needed a different home.
Durham: Software & STEM
Around this time, I became obsessed with innovation, smart-home tech, engineering, futurism, and thinkers like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, and Elon Musk. I started imagining devices, including an early biometric doorknob concept. The more I imagined, the more I knew: I needed engineering, not theater.
I moved back to North Carolina, this time to Durham, and shifted fully into STEM. I earned my Associate in Applied Science in Information Technology with a focus on Software Development from Durham Technical Community College, graduating with honors in 2020. Coding gave me the tools to create software, but I quickly realized software alone couldn’t build the inventions I envisioned.
I needed hardware, mechanics, electronics, fabrication, and systems engineering.
Asheville: Mechatronics & Hardware
That realization brought me to Asheville, where I entered the joint Mechatronics Engineering program offered by UNC Asheville and NC State University. Here, everything aligned — mechanics, electronics, embedded systems, and programming merging into a single discipline.
Human Innovation’s Technology LLC
I founded Human Innovation’s Technology LLC in 2022, where I design and prototype electromechanical systems, biometric devices, firmware, iOS applications, and early-stage smart hardware. My work spans metal, circuits, CAD, code, and physical systems, all aimed at making the future tangible.
My journey hasn’t been linear. But every pivot revealed the same truth: I am a builder.
I turn concepts into functional reality.
Out of My Mind
United Solar System
United Solar System
United Solar System
United Solar System is my main long-form creative project: a multi-volume, multi-generational sci-fi saga built on engineering logic, geopolitics, and realistic technological evolution. It started as class assignments and grew into a fully structured universe.
Ideoactualism
United Solar System
United Solar System
As my work spread across engineering, storytelling, hardware design, investing, and systems thinking, I realized I wasn’t just collecting hobbies; I was repeatedly turning ideas into real projects. I call that the Ideoactualist mindset: someone who consistently turns ideas into working systems by learning whatever skills are required.