“Not all those who wander are lost.”
Who I am
I build products that solve real problems — fast.
I'm a full-stack developer based in Vancouver with a background in marketing. Every project I've built started from a real pain point — mine or someone around me. I don't clone Spotify for practice; I ship tools that people actually use.
What I care about most is delivering a stable product that helps people, as quickly as possible. My marketing experience gave me the instinct to observe users, validate needs, and communicate with non-technical teams. The rise of AI gave me the technical leverage I've always wanted — I guide AI through the full product lifecycle, from database design to deployment, to launch a working MVP and iterate from there.
I proved this at Ours TCF — a language platform I took from concept to profitability with 100+ paying users, handling everything from schema architecture to Stripe integration to spaced-repetition algorithms.
Where I've worked
Work Experience
Software Developer
Nov 2025 – Present- ▹Spearheaded a cross-functional team to develop and launch a profitable commercial language platform with 3,000+ dynamic questions, architecting a decoupled storage solution using Supabase for structured data and Cloudflare R2 for media assets.
- ▹Engineered an LLM-powered vocabulary system via OpenRouter API with instant translations cached to the database to reduce costs, combined with an Ebbinghaus spaced repetition algorithm to drive personalized learning and user retention.
- ▹Architected scalable relational schemas and secured user data via Supabase Auth and Row Level Security (RLS), while establishing frontend technical standards to deliver a responsive, mobile-first UX with optimized skeleton loading states.
- ▹Integrated Stripe for automated subscription billing, successfully bringing the product to profitability with 100+ active users and driving a robust 20% free-to-paid conversion rate via high-value analytics and premium mock exams.
Mobile Development Teaching Assistant
Sep 2025 – Dec 2025- ▹Mentored a cohort of 50+ graduate students in cross-platform mobile architecture, conducting code reviews to debug complex React Native state management, Flexbox layouts, and navigation routing to accelerate assignment deliveries.
- ▹Evaluated and provided technical feedback on 200+ mobile application assignments, enforcing industry-standard clean code practices, Git version control, and optimal component rendering strategies to elevate codebase quality.
- ▹Facilitated full-stack integration workflows, troubleshooting advanced technical blockers related to Firebase Authentication, RESTful HTTP requests, and native device APIs (Camera, GPS) to elevate students' final project architectures.
Software Developer Intern
May 2025 – Sep 2025- ▹Collaborated within a 10+ member agile team to build a B2B logistics portal using React, TypeScript, Jira, and Git successfully delivering the MVP beta version that supported the onboarding of 20+ initial logistics partners.
- ▹Integrated 15+ complex RESTful APIs to securely synchronize multi-tenant shipping data, proactively managing network latency by implementing robust error boundaries and skeleton loaders that decreased perceived page load time by ~30%.
- ▹Translated Figma prototypes into responsive web interfaces utilizing Tailwind CSS, establishing a centralized library of 20+ reusable UI components that reduced codebase duplication and accelerated frontend development speed by ~40%.
Things I've Built
My Creations
Mastodon Archive Viewer
Dec 2025 – Jan 2026
Client-side web app for parsing, exploring, and persistently storing Mastodon data archives. Features a zero-backend, offline-first data pipeline using @zip.js to extract 20,000+ interactions directly in-browser, with Dexie.js (IndexedDB) for persistent client-side storage ensuring strict data privacy. Optimized with @tanstack/react-virtual for 60fps infinite scrolling across 15,000+ posts, interactive Recharts dashboards, Fuse.js full-text search delivering sub-100ms retrieval, multi-account merge, and optional Google Drive OAuth for secure cloud backups.
Tomatch
Apr 2025 – Jun 2025
AI-powered mobile app for grocery price tracking and trend analysis. Built with React Native and Expo, featuring high-performance interactive charts for price trend visualization and FlashList for strict 60fps rendering. Architected a hybrid receipt parsing pipeline combining on-device OCR and lightweight LLMs for structured JSON extraction, with vector search normalizing grocery items into a unified catalog at 98%+ accuracy. Streamlined CI/CD via Expo Application Services with OTA updates, accelerating bug-fix rollouts by over 50%.
Portfolio
May 2025 – Present
My personal portfolio website with a night owl forest theme, interactive globe, firefly animations, and bento grid layout.