Beyond work
A more personal corner of the site: reflections on building products with AI, the things I've gone out of my way to learn, and what keeps me curious outside of work.
What I've learned about building products, working with AI, and turning ideas into shipped software.
Remember began as a website to hold memories for my girlfriend's and my first-month anniversary. Once it was live, I realized other couples, friends, and families could use the same thing, so I re-planned it as a multi-user platform with private shared spaces, profiles, friends, and invitations.
Visit letsremember.app(opens in a new tab)I use Gemini to brainstorm and write PRDs, then direct Claude Code like an engineer on my team: explicit requirement breakdowns and approval, isolated feature branches, atomic commits, local QA, and a maintained changelog. I still review every Supabase table change myself and ask the AI to explain unfamiliar models before I rely on them.
Courses and skills I've gone out of my way to learn, often on a deadline.
Joining the Columbia Formula Racing software team meant learning tire models from scratch. In about a month I went from no background to fitting Magic Formula coefficients to real tire test data for the car's traction-control work.
Spent summer 2024 at Harvard studying how innovation happens and gets funded (grade: A-), a lens I still use when thinking about which products are worth building.