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Designer Building UX That Actually Ships.

JPMorganChase logo
Freestyle logo Y Combinator logo
University of Chicago logo
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 developed company website and blog, driving 2k+ monthly visitors. Engineered 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 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

Arc Browser 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

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

Design 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

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

Need UX Design That Actually Ships?

  • I'm a Design Summer Analyst at JPMorganChase and ex-Software Engineer at Y Combinator and Techstars startups.
  • To unwind I keep active and creative—from winning Hyrox U24 in Chicago to perfecting my latest bake.
  • Let's talk design (or anything else). If I don't respond within 48h, I'm probably hiking the Alps.
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Designed in Sketch. Developed with Svelte.
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