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UChicago

Kevin Gugelmann

Blending Imagination and Engineering into Human-Centric Software

  • Engineer at Freestyle (YC S24) to bring unified cloud development to enterprise.
  • Previously, interned as Platform Engineer at Gridlink (Techstars '23) and Digital Marketing Strategist at TFDi.
  • 3rd year Economics and Cognitive Science at the University of Chicago. Winner of the 2022 designathon.

2024

Tutorial: Engineering Infinite Craft with Multiplayer

Web Dev Tutorial — Author

Wrote a full-stack web development tutorial on recreating Infinite Craft with real-time multiplayer. All logic written with 100% pure TypeScript—even the database.

Anthropic

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Astro

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React

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TypeScript

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TailwindCSS

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Freestyle

2024

Freestyle Blog

Technical Blog — Engineer

Launched a technical blog for Freestyle, a YC-backed startup unifying TypeScript for full-stack app development. Built using Freestyle.

Astro

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React

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TypeScript

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Tailwind

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Freestyle

2023

GridLink Internship

EV Fleet Management SaaS — Platform Engineer

Redesigned the fleet charging schedule page in Figma and implemented my changes in React. Simplified navigation UX with a platform-wide redesign proposal.

React

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TypeScript

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Figma

2023

30-Day Redesign: Arc for iOS

UX Case Study — Research, Design, & Writing

Published an article on my 30-day unsolicited redesign of Arc for iOS in Bootcamp of the largest design publication on Medium, the UX Collective.

Figma

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Medium

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Artboard Studio

2023

Zeesta Labs Internship

Medical AI Startup — Frontend Developer & UI/UX Designer

Built up a unique verbal & visual brand identity from scratch, including the logo, documented in a custom brand book. Helped develop an efficient iOS app in React Native based on my Figma UI designs. Determined unique value proposition.

Figma

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Figma Variables

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React Native

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TypeScript

2023

My Online Portfolio

Website — UI Design & Development

This website! Designed in Sketch. Developed with SvelteKit & Tailwind CSS. Deployed on GitHub Pages. Fully responsive. Image lazy-loading and 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 — UI Design & Prototyping

Designed and prototyped ten UI states of a sport video analysis desktop app, which would solve the lack of documented session review I experienced when training for UK rowing national gold in high school. Used mainly dark neutrals to keep the user's focus on each video.

Sketch

2022

Winner: Most Well-Designed App at UChicago's Annual Designathon

Concept Mobile App — Project Lead

Successfully completed a 5-hour Figma designathon as part of an ad-hoc UChicago team. Our prize-winning mobile app prototype gamified pizza ordering with the Secret Santa concept, answering the prompt 'how can we reimagine the pizza ordering and delivery process?'

Figma

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FigJam

2021

Trade Finance Distribution Initiative Internship

Website Redesign — Digital Marketing Strategist

Led the full redesign of their primary website using Figma and Webflow, increasing site traffic by 100% within the first month. Revamped all 1k+ words of the original copy, eliminating financial jargon, leading to a sub-20% bounce rate on 3.7k monthly visits. Determined slogan.

Figma

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Webflow

2020

Mindxone

SaaS Web App — Co-Founder

Co-developed a web app reimagining how people create and manage their digital content, based on a tag–exclusive organisation ideology. Took the product to its MVP stage. Sunset to focus on my 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 — UI Design & Development

Designed, prototyped, and built an iOS task app with a focus timer and priority estimation. Swipe-first navigation and duration selection. Custom subtle and playful micro-interactions. Was too young to publish to the App Store.

InVision Studio

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Flutter

2018

Panorama Mail

Mobile App — Concept Design

Prototyped 57 animated artboards of a concept mobile mail app. The titular 'Panorama' screen enables rapid email triaging. Features also include: snooze, quick reply, and undo send. Inspired by Spark Mail.

Adobe XD

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Auto-Animate

2018

Prismatic News

Android App — Native Development

Developed and published a native Android app that fetches trending news via an API, then scrapes webpages for offline reading. Nine reading theme variants. Line-by-line text-to-speech. AI top sentences highlighting. 1000+ installs on the Google Play Store.

Android Studio

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Java

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Firebase

Let's Build Something Worth Sharing

  • I'm actively working as an Engineer at Freestyle (YC S24).
  • To unwind I keep active - along the way I've won Hyrox Chicago U24 Men's (2023) and three national gold medals in UK school rowing.
  • Free to just say hi! I always love to hear about new ideas, technologies, and training.
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Designed in Sketch. Developed with SvelteKit & TailwindCSS.
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