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Some screenshots

## Part design

I designed and fabricated parts for existing and new products.

For existing products, my work focused on optical testing and calibration. I built two systems to experiment with variations to the ML1's optical stack, including one precision optical measurement fixture.

I designed one new experimental power-related product from scratch, and also worked on several subsystems on the next generation of glasses. Parts I designed included adhesives, foams, sheet metal clips, injection molded housings, and flexible printed circuits.

## Testing

I debugged headsets that were overheating and made recommendations to the electrical engineering team on how to reduce component temperatures in key locations.

## Manufacturing

I ran a bunch of fancy 3D printers that made prototype parts for the rest of the team.

## Workflow

I rebuilt the statistical analysis tool that the team used to make sure parts would actually fit together after they were manufactured at the factory.

Projects at Magic Leap

[View portfolio](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1K8OXTsuWdv5vsz3U3bVOJvTrmZasvGDZ9hAJTHCyLV4/edit)

Ryze

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## Fellowship —

With Zack Baker and Danielle Frider, I launched the [Contrary Fellowship](http://contrarycap.com/fellowship), a community of the world's top early-career engineers, designers, and product minds. We're \~300 strong as of Summer 2021.

Some notable achievements:

* Our Fellows have been instrumental in the growth of breakout startups like Retool and Ramp

* We've helped Fellows land roles at companies like Italic

* Several Fellows have founded companies and joined top accelerators like YC

I launched v1 of the program and began by shepherding the community with Zack, later moving into an advisory + operations role supporting our Danielle.

## Investing —

I've supported the investment team on several key deals by making introductions to talent sourced from our network. I've also occasionally supported investment operations, notably coordinating SPVs.

## Startup Search —

Zack and I took over the Startup Search newsletter. We launched Startup Search Verified to help our top subscribers get introduced directly to great startups. Later, we launched [startupsearch.com](http://startupsearch.com) and announced Lists, our compilations of top startups in categories like fintech and climate.

## Startup Fair —

With Jess Retrum, I launched [startupfair.com](http://startupfair.com), a closed career fair that pairs 100 of the world's top early-career builders with top startups like Anduril, Ramp, Vise, and Stytch.

## Tools —

I've built internal tools to keep the whole ship running. There's a lot more of this than you might expect (certainly than I expected).

## Web presence —

I built + maintain [contrarycap.com](http://contrarycap.com) and design Contrary's brand assets for social media and email marketing.

Projects at Contrary

## Capstone: multiphase flow metering

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We experimented with adapting a single-phase turbine flow meter to accurately measure two-phase (air/water) and three-phase (oil/gas/water) flows.

## Mechanochemical reactors

Basically a fancy robotic mortar and pestle for controlled powder-based chemical reactions. Worked on this under Dr. Johnathan Felts.

Projects at Texas A&M

Engineer

Notes on PRMs

Select work from college: multiphase flow metering, mechanochemical reactors.

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

All The Job Sites

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.

Bounty

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 (https://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.

Portal

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".

FORCEPT

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

Music production

Built a quick way for creators to track hiring referrals.

refer.so

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

Wolflow

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: https://www.dotabuff.com/players

Dotaboards

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!

Minecraft Granite Mod

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.

ambitious.guide

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: https://www.therabbitholevr.com/vr-arcade

ArenaVR

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

HustleStory

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.

Brain

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.

COVID College Hangout

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

Blocks

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

VR Teardown

Worked on a Minecraft server with Matthew Kochakian. We wanted to bootstrap the metaverse vision by leveraging Minecraft as a new, dynamic "town square".

Some other examples of this have popped up recently (see https://www.blockeley.com).

TECHNICAL:
I experimented with different server setups (Spigot, etc) running on a Kubernetes cluster for scalability. We selected and configured plugins to control what users could do in the game. Our plan was to write custom plugins to connect in-game actions to a web-based social platform.

Metaverse

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.

Various

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.

Mechanical Opto-Engineering Intern

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.

Co-founder & Engineer

We identify the world’s top early-career engineers, designers, and product minds, connect them with a close-knit, career-long support community, and invest in companies they start or join.

Head of Engineering

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.

Operations Intern

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.

Cameron Kelley

2021