Projects
Columbia Virtual Campus
Co-Founder and CTO
Conceptualized CVC - a pandemic-born virtual community platform supporting students with resources, events, and initiatives. Led user research, product design and tech stack development using Javascript, Node.js, Firebase, Gatsby and Netlify. Mentored a team of 30 students across 5 projects. Achieved 10,000+ views, with 500+ unique users. Organized community projects such as Alumni Meetups, Freshmen Social, and Black Lives Matters tutoring initiative, raising $1100.
Virtual Campus Design Challenge
Head Organizer
Conceptualized and executed a three-day hackathon for Columbia students, offered technical mentorship to participants, orchestrated a speaker series featuring distinguished researchers, facilitated mentoring sessions and coordinated the judging process. Over 30 teams participated, with 4 winners in different categories awarded $500. The winning entries were widely used by the Columbia students to foster community interaction, medical support and improve online learning during the COVID crisis.
Columbia Space Initiative
Micro-G Challenge Leader
Co-led a team of 6 students to pursue the 2018 Micro-G challenge by NASA. Ideated, designed and built a working prototype of a novel zip-tie cutting device for astronauts to use in space. The device was selected for testing at NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Lab, and our team was invited to be a part of the testing as well.