PlantPal – Founder/Product Engineer
Branding + UI Design + UX Research + Architecture Design + PrototypingAs both a designer and developer on PlantPal is a mobile-first plant care assistant that translates complex environmental data into simple, personalized guidance for each plant.
Key Contributions:
- Built Android app using Kotlin + Jetpack Compose with a clean MVVM architecture
- Integrated Perenual + OpenWeather APIs to deliver real-time, location-aware care recommendations
- Designed a system combining plant data, user logs, and environmental signals (humidity, UV, weather) for adaptive guidance
- Implemented Room database for local persistence and responsive performance
- Led UI/UX and branding design, creating a cohesive visual system and simplifying complex data into an intuitive, user-friendly experience
Barterloo – Intern
Barterloo is a marketplace platform designed to make peer-to-peer trading more intuitive by improving how users discover and connect through relevant matches.
Key Contributions:
- Built full-stack features across the platform using React, Node.js, Express, Prisma, and PostgreSQL
- Designed and implemented a semantic matching system using transformer-based embeddings to surface relevant trade opportunities
- Developed core user flows including listing creation, profile management, messaging, and match discovery
- Improved backend performance by structuring systems for efficient querying and scalable recommendation logic
- Led UI/UX and branding design, refining interaction flows (e.g., “Let’s Barter”) and creating a cohesive, user-friendly marketplace experience
- Collaborated directly with stakeholders through weekly product discussions, contributing to both technical decisions and product direction