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founding designer / product designer·who

I build AI-native products for high-stakes, heavy-ops B2B, the kind people trust and act on.

Open to new opportunities

Things I've shipped

one experience, three hats

CodePay · Payment solutions and operations

Jul 2025 → now

Founding-designer work in high-risk fintech, plus earlier 0 → 1 and safety-critical projects. Open any one for the full case.

An honest activity graph

Not commit counts, real project periods and dated milestones. Hover, tap, or arrow-key through the grid; the brighter a cell, the more that month carried, side-quest experiments folded in with the rest.

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Inspector

July 2026

  • The companions' platform side ships: beyond the chat thread, with memoirs, create-and-tune-your-own characters, and a community forum next

    ship

    from one companion to a platform

    view →
Yuchen in the Aspen mountains
Snowboarding
snowboard
City walking
city walks
Surfing
surf
Traveling
trip

I love to build tools that solve real problems

The work that stays with me carries a little emotional weight. It's the kind that genuinely changes how someone moves through their day.

Right now I'm using vibe-coding tools to prototype and ship my own products. I care less about polishing portfolio pieces and more about making things people can actually pick up and use.

Impact

make work travel farther

Exploration

learn by building

Growth

compound skills, not titles

Let's make something people enjoy using.