Staff iOS engineer, now building Oria.
11 years building and leading on iOS, from an 8-person startup to Wealthfront’s $100B+ platform. I obsess over the whole product, from the first sketch to the on-call pager. Born in Guilin, at home in the Bay Area.
That was 2014, at Bowdoin, where I trained them to solve CAPTCHAs. I studied math and computer science and graduated with honors.
I also ran the International Club, the second-largest group on campus, and wrote a chapter of Young Leaders 3.0 about growing up through hardship.
Edmodo was where 60M+ teachers, students, and parents met for class. I grew with the app: by its redesign, I was building most of its main features, reworking its architecture and API layer, and mentoring a junior engineer.
Edmodo · 2015 – 2017 · iOS intern to senior engineer
Dote was an iOS-only startup with $23M raised and a team of 8, and I built and owned all of iOS, shipping weekly through a full Swift and architecture rewrite at 99.99% crash-free.
My favorite, Shopping Party, pioneered live shopping: creators streamed camera, screen, and chat in sync. I built it from zero streaming experience in 10 weeks; it drew 400+ parties in 2 weeks and press like TechCrunch.
Dote · 2017 – 2019 · Lead iOS engineer
So I rebuilt on-call: errors fell 90%, incidents got an immediate response, and issues left for the next rotation dropped from constant to none, even as I doubled the rotation from 7 to 14.
Over 6.5 years, I led across teams and owned the iOS side of launches like Autopilot and Stock Portfolios, and as Design System tech lead, I rewrote the layout system behind 80%+ of the app’s screens.
My job grew from owning launches to helping others own theirs: setting goals with our VPE, mentoring engineers into lead roles, and defining processes and tech-lead roles Investing and Cash still use.
Wealthfront · 2019 – 2026 · Staff engineer, iOS lead
I’d spent years bringing others’ designs to life, and I wanted to draw the first line myself. So I used AI to build a curriculum and taught myself design.
My first prototype, Seat Nine, puts you at the table: it deals real hands and coaches the thinking behind each decision.
Seat Nine · 2026 · Product design
10+ years of leading in tech taught me the hardest moments are about people. So I’m building Oria (oriastudio.ai), an iOS app that helps people work through hard situations and build people skills.
It’s built trust-first: privacy by design, structured AI outputs, and model evals. I own it end to end, from 1,200+ Figma screens to the SwiftUI app.
Without a team, I architected one: a self-improving system where AI agents build in parallel, check each other’s work, and turn lessons into tested guardrails. I set the direction and make the calls.
Oria · 2026 · Founder
One comes with pearls, the other with purrs. Between cups, I’m on the pickleball court, in Zumba class, at the $3/$5 poker tables, or dealing my friends in for our Sunday home game.
Home is the Bay Area, California. Where I recharge? Porto, Portugal.
