Code & Building
Fullstack engineering, product, and UI/UX work...and some hardware if you scroll down enough
Projects
GitHub for knowledge: a notetaking app for sharing your thoughts, learning, and work with the world.
A social platform for daily updates. Originally built and launched in three days
A central dashboard for COVID information across the five Claremont Colleges, built for The Student Life
Data visualization piece "Diversity takes a dip in Pomona’s Class of 2025" for The Student Life
An easy-to-use, beautiful, d3.js-based charting library. Built for The Phillipian's State of the Academy 2020 survey
Log your house, club, or league games and get player rankings and metrics over time. 2-day hackathon build. (Since shut down)
Chrome extension to liberate you from the infinite distraction cycle of YouTube.
A mechanical page turner for musicians. The final result of Cooper Union's 6 week product design and prototyping Makerspace class in the Summer STEM 2018 program.
Building a motorized 3-axis gimbal to stabilize cameras for filmmaking using 3D printing and laser cutting.
A custom PC the size of a shoebox, but with a Ryzen R5 2600 and GTX 1060 for twice the power of my old build.
A notetaking app that helps you answer your biggest questions. Question Journal lets you document your questions and notes about them over time, centering curiosity in your learning.
Rebuilt Phillips Academy's student publication's WordPress site template from scratch, supporting over 15,000 historical articles and 80-100 new ones uploaded each week, along with multimedia content.
A WordPress theme custom-made for small newspapers. Built with versatility, ease of use, and maintainability in mind.
Relevant experience
Packages
Helper functions to make React controlled components less verbose
Accessible, animated accordion component for React, published on npm
Template to set up Next, Tailwind, and Typescript in one npx command
Template to set up Next, Tailwind, Typescript, MongoDB, and NextAuth in one npx command
Open Source Contributions
Contact me
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