RESUME
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Cornell University
Aug 2021 - May 2025
BA in Computer Science
Minor in Human Development
Meta Design Summit
Summer 2022
Selected to participate in a 14-week boot camp to learn from Meta product designers, content designers, and design leadership.
Product Design Intern@ Palantir Technologies
Summer 2024
Design Team Lead @ Cornell AppDev
Dec 2022 - May 2023
Facilitating the growth and experience of 8 product designers.
Delivered mobile & web designs for over 10,000 daily active users.
Product Manager
Dec 2022 - May 2023
Led a cross-functional team of 8 for Volume, a student news app with over 700 semesterly users. Initiatives and campaigns resulted in over 300% increase in Volume’s MAU from the peak of prior semesters. Recipient of the 2023 EY Corporation Award for BOOM, Cornell’s annual technology showcase.
Product Designer
Feb 2022 - Present
Conducted UX research and testing, designed flows and prototypes, and maintained design system for Pear, a friend making app with over 1.5k semesterly users to spark genuine connections.
June 2023 - Present
End-to-end designer and full-stack developer for the Community & Agricultural Resilience Audit Tool - CARAT, a web app used by counties, cities, and states nationwide to understand the food systems resiliency of their community. Solely responsible for 0 to 1 design and development of a fully functional web application with Figma, React, TailwindCSS, Express, Node.js, MongoDB, Github, and Python.
Software Engineer Intern @ MetLife
Summer 2023
Developed automation regression test suites under MetLife’s Global Technology Operations team to support the platform that thousands of MetLife call center agents rely on every day.
Product Designer @ Pupil
May 2023 - August 2023
Redesigned Pupil's landing page.
Product Designer Intern
Summer 2022
Worked on mobile MVP for Pupil, an Ed Tech platform that empowers underrepresented high schoolers by connecting them with college mentors.
Teaching Assistant @ Intro to Digital Product Design
Feb 2022 - Present
Teach and lecture on Intro to Digital Product Design with over 50 students per semester. Mentored 1:1 for over 30 new product designers on topics such as product design, user-centered design, user research, brainstorming, interactional design, communication design, visual design, and prototyping. Facilitate weekly critique sessions with students and mentor new TAs.
Product Designer for The Happiness App
June 2023 - Present
In the process of redesigning The Happiness App, a genuine social media platform.
Product Designer & Engineer for Scribbly
Winter 2022
Design and UX engineered for Test Flight app, Scribbly, on a mission to make improving art a social and playful experience. Programmatically prototyped log in, authentication, and onboarding screens.
Product Designer for Strava Case Study
Sept 2021 - Dec 2021
Designed a new community feature, “Events,” in order to facilitate meaningful communities to build the most engaged community of athletes in the world. Researched user needs (sample size: 5), created wireframes and prototypes through Figma, conducted user usability testing (3 users), recreated Strava’s design system.
iOS Developer for CUFindIt
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
CUFindIt is developed for Cornell AppDev Hack Challenge to help students in finding their lost items.
Designed and Engineered an application with back-end API integration, UI animations, and haptic feedback. Developed alongside a cross-functional team of 5.
Design
Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Lottie, Procreate, Blender, Cinema4D
General Programming: Java, Python, OCaml
Web Development: HTML, CSS, Javascript
iOS Development: Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit
Platforms: Azure, Github, Salesforce
If anything piqued your interest, or if you simply want to chat, don’t hesitate to reach out at ld386@cornell.edu :)