hi, I'm
I build things with AI, then show other people how.
Computer engineering at McGill, class of 2028. This past summer I shipped 50+ agent tools at a Montréal startup, and the rest of the year I run Claude Builder Club McGill. I say yes to the weird thing and something good falls out of it.
follow the wire
things it typed this year ↑
Most of them started as a sidequest. A few turned into something people use every day.
building it since February
A degree planner for McGill students. It reads the whole course catalogue so you don't have to, and 870 students used it in the first three days, 81% of them on a phone.
AI builder intern · Apr to Aug 2026
Series A startup in Montréal. I shipped a package of 50+ agent tools the engineers built on, plus the skills and docs that let non-technical operators run workflows in Claude without writing code.
Anthropic campus ambassador · since Jan 2026
I started the club and got it to 300+ members in three months, then ran Montréal's first Claude hackathon, 280+ apps from 150+ builders. Professors also brought me into their engineering and management classes to teach workshops.
team of 4 · 36 hours
You mouth words without making a sound and get heard in your own voice, even on a phone call. We built it for people who lost their voice box to a laryngectomy. 2nd overall out of 652 projects, and 1st in Cartesia's voice AI challenge.
read the whole story →McHacks Best Beginner Hack · open source
Color matching for the clothes you already own, plus AI try-on. I led product, design, and full stack, and wrote the HSL color harmony engine. It's free and open source on purpose, because not everything needs a subscription.
styleityourself.ca →Drag around the wheel. Three hues, 120° apart, worked out in HSL.
McGill writes prerequisites as English sentences. Plan Your Degree turns about 70% of the 4,600 sentences in the catalogue into trees like the one below.
Example sentences in the catalogue's style.
I played my grandfather every afternoon, then my dad, who's exceptional. In 9th grade I won my school's tournament as the only 9th grader in it. I still can't read the characters on the pieces.
I sold shoes at New Balance and Sports Experts from 2021 to 2024. I learned French on the job and picked up more foot biomechanics than I ever expected to.
I grew up in Vietnam and I live in Montréal now. Someday I want to build an AI operating system for the clothing industry, with my own label running on it. I'd rather be great at one thing than okay at ten.
Try my stuff, break it, tell me what's wrong. Or just tell me what you're building.
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