ivan zhao

ivan zhao

design engineer in sf, ca, he/him

About

dog lover obsessed with forms of storytelling, craft, and things that taste good. sweats the details. sweats a lot

Projects

2023

if you throw enough LLM's at something it might just work

2022

literary magazine published by reboot to ask (and hopefully) answer the question, how do we get to a future that we want through people, tools, and ideas.

Side Projects

2024

Made during Type West 2023, Convo is a multistyle handwritten typeface with enough weights, italics, and charm to give a little flair to any project that you need.

2023
mod

mod is a mathematician's favorite typeface

2022

silly little side project using markov models to create black out poems!!! so fun

2022

personalized search engine across tweets, obsidian notes, blog posts, and email newsletters

Speaking

2024
LA
  • waxed poetically about what it means to write programs and talked a lot about esoteric languages
2022
Remote

hopped on the Dorm Room Fund Podcast to talk about the creation of Prism and some of the details

Work Experience

2023 — Now
  • making the product feel good
  • thinking about colors and fonts
  • design systems go brrrrrrr
2021 — 2021
san francisco
  • built email marketing templates in react
  • migrated cross sell service to microservice in typescript
  • learned more than the average human should know about mortgages
2021 — 2021
remote
  • built csv tools for people to query into our API
  • built internal data visualization with d3.js for dashboards
  • worked on sdk's for javascript/python
  • wished we were in person because everyone had cute dogs
2019 — 2020
boston, ma
  • prototyped new ways of communication with sentiment analysis
2019 — 2020
providence, ri
  • built initial versions of crud web app and mobile app with geolocation tracking in javascript / react

Education

2018 — 2022
providence, rhode island

graduated brown with a degree in applied math and computer science

some things I did while there:

  • aerial acrobatics
  • orchestral pit for many musicals
  • wrote for visions, an asian american literary mag
  • started a product and design studio
  • took graphic design classes

Contact

Website
Twitter
GitHub

Teams

Past
Galileo AI