Worked and shipped on both large and small projects in both SwiftUI, Swift, and Objective-C for iOS for the last nine years
Created websites for personal projects including moshitea.com utilizing HTML, CSS, Javascript, and other languages and frameworks
Also worked professionally with React and Typescript as well (wow!)
Frequently use Photoshop and Lightroom for creative projects in both digital and traditional media
Lead the development of Perplexity AI's native iOS app to help people more easily discover and learn about new things!
Led and implemented major features in the iOS application in Swift, including overhauling how rich text is rendered, refactoring assessments and quizzes, implementing discussion forums, course material downloads, peer reviewed assignments, and more. Worked with the team to move the app to CoreData for greatly improved caching and rendering time. Coordinated and worked on the Swift 3, 4, and 5 migrations involving hundreds of thousands of lines. Created the Apple TV application to watch lectures on the television. Developed reusable UI goodies such as stretchable table headers to make a more visually pleasing experience. Managed our CI system to automatically run unit tests and to deploy our app to the App Store. Hosted teatime with coworkers to enjoy the California sun.
Worked on the Authoring experience as a frontend developer, where we implemented content versioning on items instructors make in a course.
Download Coursera for iOS and tvOS
Migrated sharing requests to Facebook's Open Graph Object API to increase the speed of sharing businesses and reviews by fivefold. Extended mobile metrics in Python to track device usage with greater granularity. Created an iOS feature in Objective-C with a team at a hackathon to search intelligently along a route in order to return results on the way to the user's destination.
Rapidly prototyped and worked with the iOS team to ship Yahoo News Digest in 6 months. Implemented the news digest and article views in Objective-C with visually-rich and performant cards, including maps, slideshows, and related Tweets. Worked closely with designers to make the app a winner of the 2014 Apple Design Awards. Styled the Yahoo News Digest Tumblr to show short summaries of news articles that can be shared to anyone.
(Sadly, Verizon/Oath decided to discontinue Yahoo News Digest on August 2017, and it is no longer available on the App Store)
Rapidly prototyped and developed an iOS application for mobile patient registration and other hospital services.
Led and organized a team of 12 to run the Stanford Night Market, with continued year-over-year growth of almost 200% to 4,000 attendees over three years. Wrote a Ruby on Rails web application to handle visitor information, vendor registrations, and other internal organization. Created marketing materials for distribution both online and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Also took event photos.
Designed with a classmate a Flash music game that had over 240,000 plays worldwide. Implemented a scoreboard backend and frontend to further extend competitive gameplay.
Double majored in computer science (focus on human-computer interaction) and music (focus on piano performance) at Stanford University
Can almost stumble through three people languages
Mainly English and Mandarin Chinese with a tad of Japanese
Really likes 19th century classical music
Chopin and Rachmaninoff two of my favorite composers ever
Presses buttons on a camera
Sometimes the photos turn out half decent, maybe — check them out on my Flickr account
Wrote a Slack bot to order milk tea
Used node.js to implement on-call rotations to hydrate and refresh the team with pmt
Feel free to contact me and say hello!
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