I supported the startup ecosystem at Texas A&M by meeting with student founders, assessing potential investments, and conducting technical diligence for full-stack and infrastructure related companies.

Built scraping engine and deal-flow data pipeline to manage Contrary's investment opportunities. Used Python, Selenium, MongoDB, and a variety of APIs.

Joined the Lightwear team, working on mechanical design of Magic Leap's augmented reality glasses.

I designed parts and test fixtures for new products, focusing on adhesives, sheet metal clips, injection molded housings, and flexible printed circuits.

We built a personal relationship manager.

The company failed because we didn't focus on a specific use case (everyone wants to be better with people, right?) and didn't charge users early enough.

Used React + React Native, Expo, Node.js, Python, GraphQL, Docker, and AWS (ECS, Fargate, RDS, VPC) to build apps and infrastructure.

Got 7,500 signups and interviewed for YC's S2018 batch.

Joined a group of NASA veterans building a 3D pizza printer. I worked on GTM strategy, held demo events with GE and other large orgs, and ultimately helped them close a $1mm seed round from the founders of the largest pizza chain in the Midwest.

In high school, I did freelance web development and design work for friends and small businesses, focusing on Wordpress, Shopify, and Laravel.

I also built FORCEPT, an electronic medical record system for a local church to use on mission trips to remote areas of Haiti.

Built a platform for founders to post hiring bounties.

ROLES:
Engineer and UI designer, worked with Tina Jiang on product and UX, talked with lots of founders.

TECHNICAL:
Next.js frontend with incremental static generation; uses serverless functions to chat with a Postgres database droplet via Prisma ORM.

Worked on (yet another) note-taking app that aimed to be the memex.

ROLES:
Technical cofounder, focused primarily on product and prototyping.

TECHNICAL:
I built some experimental backend systems: one with GUN (gun.eco) and another that layered GraphQL on top of Neo4j.

I also worked on a performant React frontend that allowed for complex tree navigation, drag-and-drop, and common keyboard shortcuts.

Built a community for exceptional young people to collaborate on projects, have conversations, make friends, and build a competitive advantage.

We hacked on projects and held fireside chats with folks like Alan Kay, Tyler Cowen, and Riva Tez.

ROLES:
Founder, community organizer, head of product and engineering, chief salesman, worked on partnerships with On Deck and others.

TECHNICAL:
I built a Discord bot and used it to aggregate engagement data from our members, presenting that in a Google Sheet dashboard.

We built a job site aggregator to help people with their job search.

Sold PLA (plastic) for 3D printing pens on Amazon.

Built an EMR for field doctors in developing countries.

TECHNICAL:
Laravel + MySQL backend. Rendered Blade templates that used Bootstrap and React on the frontend. Most interesting was the ability for doctors to build their own fields with what I called the "flow editor".

Built an leaderboard system to aggregate DOTA 2 match data from the Valve API and identify top performers daily.

Dotabuff provides a similar system now: dotabuff.com/players

I tried to start a VR arcade in Nashville, TN.

We built a custom computer/HTC VIVE rig and renovated an old ~3,000 sq. ft. laser tag arcade. The plan was to divide this into 12x12ft "arenas", where customers could explore VR and join competitive games against other players.

A competitor sprung up downtown which has done a great job: therabbitholevr.com/vr-arcade

I learned how to use FL Studio from Youtube and mixed my own mediocre EDM.

I built a Minecraft mod that added granite blocks and other utility items to the game. It got popular on Minecraft's community forum for a few months.

This was back in the day when you had to manually overwrite the game's unobfuscated Java files!

I started a Discord community for college kids to hang out in during the early months of COVID. We played some video games and adjusted to quarantine life.

Sketched out and prototyped a memex note-taking system before it was cool. Tabled the project but later brought it back in the form of Portal.

I compiled some stories of people in the tech world who demonstrated unique hustle.

Helped my former co-founder Lucas develop a system for evaluating UX within VR apps. We built a website to showcase his teardowns.

Worked on an experimental Apple Watch pomodoro timer. I tried to learn Swift and didn't like it much.