Product engineering ownership across Merlin AI and Thine, spanning core platform maintenance, growth, payments, churn reduction, and revenue-impacting product initiatives, alongside high-performance frontend development.

• Took end-to-end ownership of Merlin AI’s platform health, including maintenance, stability, and production issue resolution across critical user flows.
• Improved payments and subscription lifecycle improvements, optimizing billing reliability and reducing payment-related drop-offs.
• Shipped churn-reduction strategies across cancellation and downgrade flows, directly improving customer retention.
• Drove revenue-focused product updates by identifying high-impact user friction points and shipping meaningful feature improvements to retain and upsell users.
• Shipped ChatGPT Imports UI, enabling 10,000+ users to migrate chat history seamlessly and accelerating product adoption.
• Built project-based chat history pages, improving navigation clarity and increasing session retention by 15%.
• Revamped the Model Selector, boosting model adoption by 80% and improving user satisfaction by 30%.
• Led real-time prompt and streaming UX enhancements, supporting smooth, responsive interactions for 2M+ users.
• Engineered animation-centric product experiences for Thine’s web platform with a strong focus on visual storytelling and brand expression.
• Developing an interactive landing page featuring a video timeline to communicate product narrative and value.
• Implemented advanced split-text and motion-driven animations to elevate engagement across manifesto and marketing pages.

Built core features and internal tools improving efficiency and decision-making for influencer campaigns.

• Enhanced real-time campaign metric tracking, empowering managers with data to improve campaign ROI by up to 20%.
• Built a content submission system to streamline influencer-brand collaboration, reducing content approval times by 60%.
• Engineered a multi-select drag-and-drop feature for campaign management, increasing ops efficiency by 40% for large-scale campaigns.
• Delivered revamped dashboard—reduced onboarding and insight delivery time by 30%.

Architected and launched a decentralized skill validation protocol, revolutionizing unbiased, transparent candidate evaluation for tech hiring.

• Scaled cloud infra (EC2, NGINX, PM2, Next.js) to support 5000+ actions on the platform.
• Launched recruiter dashboard with skill heatmaps, driving smarter hiring for 20+ partners.
• Built proctored assessment workflow with real-time streaming, cutting time-to-interview by 50%.
• Designed and implemented a voting-based consensus algorithm to ensure fair and transparent skill validation across a network of 150+ validators.
• Led MVP development for validators, candidates, and recruiters.

Delivered AI-powered products for hiring and skills validation as an independent engineer.

• Deployed scalable Next.js UIs with AI workflow integration.
• Engineered an AI-powered quiz system with Vercel AI SDK and OpenAI.
• Built recruiter analytics platform with advanced candidate search.

Built marketing pages and platform features.

• Developed internal tools and handled DevOps solutions to streamline operational workflows.
• Engineered job seeker dashboard and application flow for enhanced user experience.
• Designed and built consumer-facing landing page to drive user acquisition.
• Collaborated with cross-functional team to build recruiting pipeline, reducing manual workload for hiring managers.
• Played key role in building the StartupHire founding team through candidate sourcing, interview coordination, and talent acquisition processes.

Joint R&D collaboration between Locus Connect and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University. Where I developed 3D visualization and positioning systems for IoT solutions, bridging commercial product development and academic research.

• Dockerized and maintained internal services, achieving 99.9% uptime and cutting deployment times by 80%.
• Produced frontend for 3D positioning platform, supporting live deployments.
• Created and maintained the marketing site for B2B outreach.
• Enabled 3D real-time visualization of tracking data for production ready factories and research labs.
• Enhanced UWB positioning accuracy from 20cm to under 10cm—significantly improving research outcomes.
• Developed a frontend for an MQTT-powered indoor positioning platform to visualize real-time data from IoT devices.

Designed intuitive user experiences and managed design systems for ed-tech platforms.

• Crafted marketing collateral for two campaign launches, contributing to a 20% increase in lead generation.
• Managed a scalable design system, increasing developer velocity by 30%.
• Created user flows for hiring and onboarding.

Authored and curated technical content for HTML/CSS/JS modules, driving learning impact for novices.

• Structured and reviewed curriculum, improving student course completion rates by 40%.
• Created beginner-friendly learning content adopted by 2,000+ new users.

Animated landing experience for Thine, a reflective AI companion.

• Delivered smooth transitions, scroll animations, and expressive motion design.
• Designed with Tailwind, Framer Motion, and custom animation systems.
• Optimized for fast load performance and emotional impact.

Interactive directory for exploring, filtering, and comparing AI models and their capabilities.

• Built lightweight searchable UI optimized with virtualization.
• Designed for discoverability and developer-first exploration.
• Open-source and built with clean modular architecture.

AI-powered personal knowledge base for collecting, organizing, and querying content with contextual understanding.

• Supports search and retrieval using LLMs and RAG patterns.
• Built for organizing web links, notes, and documents into a unified knowledge layer.
• Optimized around latency and streaming user workflows with React Query.
• Delivered frictionless knowledge exploration through a clean interface.

Modern browser-based TS/JS playground with real-time execution and console output.

• Built using TypeScript Compiler API for accurate diagnostics and evaluation.
• Open-source tool used by learners and interviewers.
• Smooth execution sandbox with intuitive editor-console interactions.

Fun meme soundboard where your most played sounds float to the top.

• Built with delightful animations using Framer Motion.
• Persistent state using Zustand for ranking and usage tracking.
• Lightweight, fast and mobile-responsive.

Revamped Saral’s admin dashboard with improved design system and visibility of operational metrics.

• Reduced onboarding time and improved data discoverability for internal teams.
• Delivered clean, intuitive UI powered by TanStack Router and Framer Motion.
• Improved insights and data aggregation flow across modules.

Interactive visualization tool for nested JSON data structures to aid debugging and comprehension.

• Supports large datasets with efficient tree traversal and grid views.
• Used by hundreds of developers for integration debugging and backend validation.
• Praised for clarity, performance, and usability compared to alternatives.
• Open-source and referenced within developer community discussions.

Generates personalized learning paths leveraging LLMs and interactive visualizations.

• Built using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Canvas, and LLMs; used by thousands of engineers.
• Generated 250+ roadmaps and attracted over 5,600 unique visitors organically.
• Delivers real-time structured roadmap generation with intuitive navigation.
• Open-source with privacy-friendly sharing, topic clustering, and recommendations.
• Led full-stack architecture, visualization engine, and complete product UX.