Delegate repetitive work to computers.

This is going to work.

A streaming service for VTubers. VTubers are streamers that use an animated digital avatar.

Didn't work - couldn't pull the big VTubers away from Twitch/YouTube. Need 10M+ users for an advertising based business like that and we couldn't grow quick enough.

Online grocery delivery. Dipped after a few months. Can't do big companies.

Chef's Kiss is Doordash except the chefs cook from home.

Main roles:

• built the Remix/Laravel/React/Typescript web application (https://chefskiss.com.au). Had some sick features e.g. orders would get sent to Doordash on the backend and be scheduled for delivery, chefs could make their own menu (webpage), etc

• pitching chefs to join the plaform

• promoting the platform to consumers

Didn't work - food delivery is a tough vertical with rough unit economics, especially when the home chefs aren't operating at scale.

I was the 50th (ish) engineer at Hinge Health. I worked in a pod of 5-8 engineers, designers and product managers.

Hinge Health is a good company. It does something important (literally alleviates pain, and prevents opioids dependency) and has a good business model. The eng org is still effective, which in hindsight was impressive for a team of that size.

Features I worked on:

• Video conferencing between our internal React web app and our React Native mobile application. Scheduling of video calls was handled using an 3rd party integration with You Can Book Me.

• Rate limiting across public auth endpoints in our Typescript Backend for Frontend (BFF).

• Seed scripts to provision the test users required for Acceptance Testing. I did this for 5+ features. This was done in Rails.

• Accessibility work. This involved making sure the screen reader worked intuitively for non-sighted users on iOS mobile devices, Amazon tablets, Lenovo tablets and Android mobile devices.

• User email and SMS messaging based off an integration with EasyPost (postage service). When we would send packages to our users, we would SMS/email our users with updates on their package as we received them from EasyPost. This was done in our Rails monolith.

• Introduced a split flag architecture to our React Native mobile application for non-logged in users using split.io and Mixpanel.