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Product Designer.
AI-Native Engineer.

  • Built a collaborative CLI at JPMorganChase that turns AI prompts into design tools, saving 1000s of hours.
  • Shipped pixel-perfect sites at AI infra startup Freestyle (YC S24) with full-stack code.
  • Won the designathon and hackathon at UChicago, majoring in Economics and Cognitive Science.
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Freestyle logo Y Combinator logo
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Sport Video Analysis project preview
Arc for iOS project preview
Pizza Screens project preview
GridLink project preview
Task Timer project preview
Sport Video Analysis project preview
Arc for iOS project preview
Pizza Screens project preview
GridLink project preview
Task Timer project preview

2024

Freestyle (YC S24)

AI Infrastructure — Software Engineer

Designed and engineered company website and blog, driving 2k+ monthly visitors. Built JavaScript runtime functionality in Rust/V8, helping secure multi-million funding.

React

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JavaScript

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TypeScript

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TailwindCSS

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Rust

2023

GridLink (Techstars '23)

EV Fleet SaaS — Platform Engineer

Redesigned and implemented the fleet charging schedule page, shipping React components from Figma designs. Simplified navigation UX with a platform-wide redesign proposal.

React

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TypeScript

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Figma

2023

Arc Browser for iOS

UX Case Study — Research, Design, & Writing

Designed and prototyped a complete Arc for iOS redesign in 30 days, publishing the case study in Bootcamp, the largest design publication on Medium.

Figma

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Medium

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Artboard Studio

2023

Zeesta Labs

Medical AI Startup — UX Engineer

Built complete brand identity from scratch and engineered iOS app in React Native from my Figma designs. Created custom brand book and determined unique value proposition for medical AI startup.

Figma

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Figma Variables

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React Native

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TypeScript

2023

Design Portfolio

Website — Design & Engineering

This website! Designed in Sketch and engineered with SvelteKit & Tailwind CSS. Deployed on GitHub Pages with image lazy-loading, achieving 98% Lighthouse Performance.

Sketch

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SvelteKit

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Tailwind CSS

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TypeScript

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GitHub Pages

2022

Sport Video Analysis UI Prototype

Desktop App — Design & Prototyping

Designed and prototyped ten interactive UI states for a sport video analysis desktop app, solving the lack of documented session review I experienced training for UK rowing nationals. Used dark neutrals to focus attention on video content.

Sketch

2022

Best Design Prize at UChicago's Designathon

Concept App — Lead Designer

Led a 5-hour designathon as part of an ad-hoc UChicago team, creating a prize-winning mobile app prototype. Gamified pizza ordering with Secret Santa mechanics, reimagining the entire ordering and delivery process.

Figma

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FigJam

2021

Trade Finance Distribution Initiative

Website Redesign — Digital Marketing Strategist

Designed and built complete website redesign in Figma and Webflow, increasing traffic by 100% in first month. Rewrote all 1k+ words of copy, eliminating jargon and achieving sub-20% bounce rate on 4k monthly visits.

Figma

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Webflow

2020

Mindxone

Web App — Co-Founder & UX Engineer

Co-founded and engineered a web app reimagining digital content organization with tag-exclusive ideology. Built full-stack product to MVP stage before sunsetting to focus on studies.

Adobe XD

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HTML/CSS/JS

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JQuery

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NodeJS

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Express.js

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AWS

2019

Task App with Focus Timer

Mobile App — UX Engineer

Designed and built an iOS task app with focus timer and priority estimation in Flutter. Implemented swipe-first navigation with custom micro-interactions.

InVision Studio

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Flutter

2018

Panorama Mail

Concept App — Design & Prototyping

Designed and prototyped 57 animated artboards for a concept mobile mail app. Built rapid email triaging with 'Panorama' screen, plus snooze, quick reply, and undo send features.

Adobe XD

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Auto-Animate

2018

Prismatic News

Android App — Full-Stack Engineer

Engineered and published a native Android app with API integration and web scraping for offline reading. Built nine theme variants, text-to-speech, and AI sentence highlighting. Reached 5,000+ installs on Google Play Store.

Android Studio

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Java

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Firebase

YC to Fortune 50.
AI-Native Products.

  • Drove a 2x traffic increase for $30MM+ fintech and AI startups by strategically optimizing sitemaps and copy.
  • Empowering designers to AI-generate Figma plugins at JPMorganChase by providing a robust scaffold and automating version control.
  • Secured 1st place at Hyrox U24 and won three national gold medals in UK school rowing, driven by an obsession with marginal gains.
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Designed in Sketch. Developed with Svelte.
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