Hybrid product designer / iOS engineer

• Developed iOS features and UX prototypes for visual and multimodal search tools.

• Prototyped AI-driven experiences, including LLM integrations and real-time scanning with the Snapchat camera.

• Contributed to product launches like Bitmoji outfit matching, web image search, food-to-recipe scanning, and Snapcode detection.

• Presented at the Grace Hopper Celebration, highlighting advancements in search and discovery technology.

• Part of a team of multifaceted design engineers focused on prototyping and exploring new directions for Snap.

• Built and refined 3D Bitmoji features to validate early-stage product concepts.

APM team

Designed for early-stage startups, including a social media app and a dating app.

Provider app team

Was the product designer for a prototype integrating GPT into Snapchat’s Scan via a chat bar, exploring ways to predict user intent and recommend content. Some concepts from this prototype were incorporated into My AI, Snapchat’s ChatGPT-powered chatbot.

Was part of the team that developed Scan, evolving Snapchat’s camera into a visual search tool that identifies real-world objects, recommends AR Lenses, and connects users to shopping, recipes, and more.

Was the product designer and iOS engineer for Food Scan, a Snapchat feature that uses computer vision to identify ingredients and suggest 4,500+ recipes from Allrecipes.

Worked on a prototype still largely covered by NDA, built for iOS and using 3D technologies like Unity and Blender. Aspects of this prototype have worked their way into Snapchat, including 3D Bitmoji, Bitmoji Lenses, customizable Bitmoji on the Map, and various other Bitmoji and communication features.

Librex was an anonymous discussion app for Ivy and other elite schools, designed to help students connect and share ideas openly. The platform raised $1M in funding and grew to over 12,000 users.
I was hired as the first and only designer, responsible for designing the entire app from scratch — including the post feed, comments, private chat, notifications, and login flows — using the Material Design UI kit. I designed all screens in the app, worked closely with the founder to shape product strategy, conducted user research, and delivered designs that effectively balanced user needs with engineering constraints.

Falling Foods was a fun, face-tracking game I designed and published to the App Store in 2020. At the time, face-tracking apps were still a novelty, and I wanted to experiment with the technology in a playful way. The game used your mouth to control the character's mouth — players could "eat" food items by opening their mouths, "lick" treats by sticking out their tongues, and dodge obstacles by closing their mouths or moving the character to avoid collisions.

I designed and built two themes — a sandwich theme and a monster theme — and integrated ReplayKit, allowing users to record and share their gameplay.