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Every market problem has a virtual solution.
The hard part is no longer whether a thing can be built. It's whether someone will.
Finding good problems, building good solutions.
Portland, OR // CS @ PSU // she/her
Every market problem has a virtual solution.
The hard part is no longer whether a thing can be built. It's whether someone will.
Finding good problems, building good solutions.
Portland, OR // CS @ PSU // she/her
Signout is a set of tools for medical residents. I was given a defunct startup to revitalize, and I chose to keep it completely free. The existing services in this space were disorganized, overpriced, and predatory, and instead of using AI to build another vibe-coded startup, I realized I had the power to build and run the entire platform for the cost of a couple cups of coffee a year. There was absolutely no reason for me not to.
Signout offers free screening for international applicants to help them save hundreds in application fees, by showing them which programs self-report automatically rejecting them based on visa status, year of graduation, and so on. It also aggregates vetted free resources for every step of the residency process, and sources rare open positions to give current residents more horizontal mobility.
We currently have ~2,700 active users, and I'm constantly working to improve distribution and accessibility and to build new tools, so that nobody has to spend any more money than they absolutely have to.
My longest-running project, and the one that changed how I think about AI most. A check-in system on Claude Code: every morning I set intentions and plan the day, every evening I review what I actually did. I've run it daily for four months.
An experiment in feeding months of my journals, conversations, and therapy sessions into Claude Code, until it could surface the patterns I'd felt but never been able to name. Open source, and more art project than product.
A fog-of-war urban exploration app for iOS. Walk around your city and reveal the map as you go. Totally free, no account, no tracking. I noticed nothing like it existed so I built it.
Hypnotic spiral generator. Parametric curves, exportable SVGs, infinite rabbit hole energy. Named after the Junji Ito manga because obviously. Great for hypnotizing my roommates.
An algorithmic experimental music generator. Inspired by Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada, named after the greatest musician I know.
I wanted to learn mouth trumpet so I built a pitch detector that combines everything I liked from existing ones under one free roof. Works great as a PWA.
I started a computer science degree in 2023, right as AI made everyone start asking whether that was still a smart thing to do. It scared me too, for a while. But the only way out is through, so I started actually using the tools instead of worrying about them. Everything on this page came out of that decision.
College let me explore, from programming a robot dog to dance in PSU's Agile and Adaptive Robotics Lab to synthesizing and profiling thousands of gelatin microparticles. These days I have one focus: building fast, cheap software for the people who need it most. That means free tools for medical residents (if I can build it for cheap, they should have it for free), and climate-adaptation planning tools for California local governments through my collaboration with Farallon Strategies, an environmental consulting firm.
AI has given us unparalleled productive capacity, and I believe that capacity should go toward social good and quality of life, not just more efficient capital extraction. But that takes people who are ambitious about AI and socially conscientious at the same time. Those shouldn't be opposites.
While my Claudes are running, I'm usually taking care of my 72 houseplants, tending to my shrimp, reading (Doctorow, Deleuze, cultivation slop), or playing guitar & harmonica.
Want to talk? [email protected]