projects
a collection of my experiences, work, and projects i've built and shipped.
- Led end-to-end production and campaign strategy for a church passion project after months off from film. Drove 80K+ cumulative views across platforms. Passion project after months of not not working on films.
- A command terminal for deep work. Open a position on a task, add liquidity, and execute. To-dos with real stakes, a portfolio dashboard, and a marketplace to see friends' bets.
- Engineered a downgrade from iOS 7 to iOS 6 with a jailbreak to restore full usability to abandoned devices. Fully documented for the community. Used iOS 6, Jailbreak, and Cydia tools.
- Mentored by founder Dr. Etjaie at PhiDrillSim. Creating simulation tools for oilfield drilling including vibration, torque/drag, and well control analysis in MATLAB. Built a VR/XR adoption map across energy and manufacturing for pilot proposals and partner identification.
- Voice agent for SMBs that answers inquiries, books jobs, estimates quotes, and escalates emergencies. Targets the ~$78 lost per missed call. Got $25K AWS credits, joined DMZ Basecamp, UofT Center for Entrepreneurship. Found early stage traction through customer interviews, live demos and onboarding local service businesses in plumbing and HVAC integrating into their existing workflows.
- Built a generative AI meditation app at a hackathon that creates personalized audio experiences based on user state. Stack: React, Flask, Cohere, Google Cloud TTS, pydub.
On the Youth Advisory Committee providing strategic advice to YMCA of Greater Toronto's Board of Directors, championing youth voices and emerging tech in community programming.
Hosted a national Zoom roundtable for 20+ Canadian students on youth-led innovation. We mapped local barriers (resources, policy roadblocks, mentorship gaps) and turned them into practical action paths aligned with building solutions people actually want. Inspired by @buildcanada.- Campus Strategist w/Perplexity AI. Ran EasyHacks, a hackathon that grew from UBC Hacks rejection thread into a 20-person operation with 170+ participants, $6K in prizes, and 300+ students onboarded.
- Won first place nationally in the Y4E competition with a film on why young people should build. Led to an invite from Desjardins for Dream the Impossible in Montreal. I later emceed the event the next year.
- AI coaching platform with 50+ decision-making frameworks and custom virtual boardrooms. Built with a Canadian Gap Year Association fellowship and traveled to Bangalore for PMF validation.
Worked with Prof. Yakov Ben-Haim on info-gap decision theory. Foucused on economic and financial decision-making using robustness and opportuneness to make decisions under deep uncertainty with the lack of probabilistic data. Built uncertainty models and applied them to VC startup evaluation, projecting 15% lift for high-risk investments.- Worked with YouthfulCities to build a project to increase youth employment opportunities in underserved communities called BridgeWorks Fellowship. Developed and received initial cohort signups.
- Built a tool that delivers personalized essay feedback framed by top minds in your field. Paste content and get instant expert-style critique.
- Built a Slack bot prototype to automate HR and onboarding at BenchSci. Modeled $4.5M in annual savings as headcount doubled from 200 to 400+ and repetitive queries surged. Productivity loss due to repetitive queries is estimated to be up to 104,000 hours annually at BenchSci.
- 2-click system for professional AI-generated profile pictures using Stable Diffusion, fine-tuned on 10-12 personal samples. Served 50+ users.
- Developed an agri-center model projecting 5.6M jobs and 285% profit growth for Ethiopian farmers by 2030. Addressed market access, farming efficiency, and lending gaps for 10M smallholders. Validated initiative with over 20 stakeholders in the coffee industry in Ethiopia.
- Developed a youth mental health policy brief for the Canadian government with Children First Canada. Ending with proposing a funded mental health app, app regulation standards, and provider certification.
- Built an AI sleep-music generator using K-means clustering to personalize audio based on sleep routines and music preferences. Hackathon finalist.
- Built and trained an ML model to diagnose and predict diabetes progression from patient data. Published a writeup on how machine learning is reshaping medical diagnostics.
- Built an SMS-based Q&A system using Twilio and OpenAI that delivers personalized academic feedback to students directly via mobile. It's for students in developing countries to use llms with limited internet access.
- Designed a consulting prototype for CIBC Rewards in Figma targeting Gen Z user retention. Modeled a 77% increase in adoption and $4.5M annual savings through user testing and survey analysis.
- Designed AR glasses that translate sign language to text in real time using transformers and OCR. Demoed a working prototype at a hackathon.
Ran monthly analytics for STEM Fellowship using Google Ads, Analytics, and Plerdy. We analyzed everything including website, cross-platform social, Ads campaigns, and calculated every possible metric to derive conversion insights- Ethereum Trend AnalysisDeep-dive technical analysis on Ethereum price trends. Built regression models, published insights, and recorded a full public walkthrough video.
Wallet-gated message wall where users connect their wallet to post publicly on an open board. Buildspace project using nextjs and solidity.
Python text adventure set in the Griffin house with room navigation, directional commands, trivia challenges, and a multi-type scoring system. First game I shipped.- Top 14% global finalist. Produced two science explainer videos: quantum computing fundamentals (superposition, entanglement, Bell's Theorem) and Mars rover RTG power systems.
- Built and produced a short animated film end-to-end. Concept, storyboard, art, and final render done solo. Using Adobe After Effects and Character Animator.
- Built the brand, hired two people, created the art, and launched a Discord community. Didn't ship due to long term utility and the 2022 market crash.
Built and grew three Instagram theme pages to 600-740 followers each. Earned ~$500 in free products through brand partnerships and sponsorships.
Launched a Shopify fundraising storefront for bath bombs benefiting the Vanauley homeless shelter. Learned e-commerce, order fulfillment, and Instagram marketing end-to-end. This was as a YMCA Intern.
ABuilt an affordable AI wearable for the visually impaired under $100 using a Raspberry Pi. Features OCR, voice assistant, and object recognition targeting 2.2B people affected by vision loss.
Built a Bible study app on Google Assistant where users ask questions about scripture and get daily verses. Won $10K in cloud credits. Stack: Actions SDK, Dialogflow, TensorFlow.
First Unity game. An impossible cube runner with randomly generated levels designed to test reaction time.
First published Android app, written in Kotlin. Clean calculator with basic operations, compatible with 82% of devices.
