CV

Education

CEO, CTO, & Founder at Black SMS, Panda Message
- Company focused on encryption and security of business communication
- Raised $2.5M in seed funding in 2016 and in 2019 (age 20 and 23) from Stanford Management Company, Stanford-StartX, Pear VC, Cardinal Ventures, Charles Schwab, and several Silicon-Valley based Venture Capital firms.
- Reached top 10 social networking apps in 103 countries
- Featured on TechCrunch, Lifehacker, etc. (See my press page).
Coach at Stanford-StartX
- Personally coached Stanford CEOs in fundraising who’ve successfully raised $22M in funding.
Advisor at Speechify
Advisor at Conduit
Entrepreneur: Inventor, Developer, Designer, and Marketer
- In addition to Black SMS and Panda, I’ve been developing, publishing, and marketing my own apps since age 13.
- Released 30+ mobile apps and web apps with million of users (1.19M app store downloads + web users). Frontback, Caricature Booth, Black SMS, Dice Shaker, Glow Neon Doodle, have all reached top ranks in the app store.
Head Web Editor at The Exonian
- Recruited and led a team of 28 in my high school news paper.

iOS developer in Objective-C and Swift since iOS 2.0.
- Programming iOS apps since 2008-09
- Teaching and coaching iOS developers on my team and outside of my team. I’m a past instructor at coding bootcamp Make School
Web developer: Javascript, React, React-native, Angular, HTML, CSS.
Backend developer: Python, Ruby, GoLang, C, C++, Node.js, PHP.

Coach and volunteer for Defy Ventures to address the social problems of mass incarceration, recidivism, and unemployment.
Worked with Center for Domestic Peace to address domestic abuse and promote awareness and prevention of abusive relationships in the Bay Area.