I turn operational friction into practical products, tools, and repeatable systems.
I am a product engineer and product strategist with experience spanning product management, frontend engineering, platform architecture, and community operations. My current work focuses on enterprise and organizational-development AI transformation, facilitation-data digitalization, and analysis systems for complex, high-volume meetings.
I enjoy taking ambiguous operational problems, defining them clearly, and shipping systems that people can use immediately. I also teach and document the practices behind the work so teams can reuse them.
Free services and public repositories open for anyone to use, explore, and learn from.
| Project | What it does | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| LanyardStudio | Browser-based studio for designing name badges, connecting CSV data, and exporting true-size print PDFs | TypeScript, Next.js |
| FloatTask | Native macOS task panel with a shared CLI, local storage, and optional Codex chat | Swift, SwiftUI, AppKit |
| Austin's Docs Architecture | Docs-first repository structure that keeps humans and coding agents aligned around one source of truth | Markdown, GitHub |
June 2026 – Present
- Building products for enterprise and organizational-development AI transformation.
- Digitalizing facilitation workflows and the operational data created around them.
- Developing analysis systems for complex, high-volume meetings.
- Leading product definition, strategy, and AI-assisted delivery workflows.
September 2024 – May 2026
- Built real-time dashboards and back-office tools for hospital AI and IoT workflows.
- Translated operational requirements into product specifications and implementation plans.
- Established the frontend architecture, reusable component foundation, and shared theme system.
- Designed a real-time communication architecture that reduced resource usage by 67%.
2024 – 2026
- Led community programs, technical events, and multi-university hackathons.
- Built digital systems that supported participant onboarding and event operations.
- Led an online language-exchange community of more than 3,000 members after starting as a staff member (2018–2021).
- Founded and operated a game community of more than 400 members (2016–2020).
- Start with the user and the operational constraint, then define the smallest useful product.
- Keep architecture, specifications, product scope, work reports, and follow-ups in the repository.
- Use coding agents as collaborators while preserving reviewable decisions and durable project context.
- Prefer local-first, automation-friendly systems when they reduce operational overhead.
