breaking language barriers

BrewBird is a Sequoia-backed Series A1 startup designing premium coffee machines & supply services for enterprise. Active users in the offices of Meta, Rivian, GAP, and others.

• Led the LED display redesign to improve usability and communication; established A/B testing framework, dashboards, and cross-functional alignment with firmware, mechanical, product, and sales.

• Designed and shipped a solution to the longstanding light-bleed defect, owning R&D through fabrication of a new display mask that enhanced optics, elevating the end-user experience.

The PRL is Stanford’s mechanical engineering teaching lab and maker space, open to all students with 1,400+ active users annually.

• Mentored students from undergrad to PhDs in product design and fabrication while facilitating lab operations across varying manufacturing processes, primarily additive manufacturing and other rapid prototyping practices.

• Teaching Assistant for Engineering Design Analytics (ME217) and Design for Additive Manufacturing (ME127/227) — co-designed curriculum applying engineering methods to the specialty coffee industry, and taught AM assembly, interfacing, CAD simulation, algorithmic modeling (topology optimization & generative design), tooling, and latticing.

• 0→1 UI/UX for the coffee machine's upcoming 720×720 circular LCD display.

• Led ethnographic interviews and onsite studies with all stakeholders (end users, office coffee suppliers, and technicians) to identify pressing issues with BrewBird's end-to-end experience.

• Shipped solutions to pressing UX issues via existing touchpoints (LED logic redesign, hardware add-ons, and strategic signage).

Poursteady designs state-of-the-art coffee machines that bring automation to the time-consuming pour-over ritual, enabling cafés to serve high-quality coffee with speed and consistency.

• Work recognized in Silicon Valley UX Awards 2024 (Runner-Up) and Core77 Design Awards 2024 (Notable).

• Led the 0→1 UX and interaction design of the PS2, Poursteady’s next-generation commercial pour-over machine—crafting an intuitive café workflow for creating and brewing complex recipes on a 128×64 OLED display with rotary knob interface.

• Solved critical issues for the design & manufacturing of the first set of beta units. My responsibilities included prototyping, CAD design, and manufacturing support.