Nathan Cheng

Wide-ranging part-time role at a family-run B2B software company (users: 3M, EPA, Lilly); expanded sales and support work with design, video, and engineering.

• •Designed and built connected customer, licensing, and order tools in-house after $25–60k outside quotes, unifying 30 years of mixed conventions across 40k+ legacy records in Next.js/Supabase.
• •Replatformed 200+ support articles onto Mintlify so customers and AI search can find answers, implementing AI-native flows from faster search to easier content updates.
• •Streamlined marketing website from 700+ to ~200 core pages, leading information architecture and visual refinement.
• •Designed a workflow-builder concept that organizes 40+ serial-device settings into a progressive-disclosure flow, showing relevant options as users configure their devices.
• •Reduced recurring setup questions ~30% with a walkthrough video series that replaced 90s-era documentation.

Solo software studio publishing Mac utilities and AI-agent tools.

• •Designed and shipped Trickpad to control Mac apps through mouse and trackpad gestures, including commands unavailable through keyboard shortcuts. Built composable actions and configuration people or coding agents can adapt.
• •Built Tag Match to automatically tag Obsidian notes using existing vocabulary and rules. Integrated Jev (System 1 AI) to resurface overlooked tags at low cost (40–200× faster than LLMs at comparable accuracy in TypeSafe tests).
• •Reached 2,000+ installs without promotion with a public subset of 30+ reusable instruction sets for AI agents.
• •Developed a remote MCP server that lets AI agents read and edit an Obsidian vault for shared context and handoffs. Kept storage and access under user control with self-hosting and OAuth 2.1 authentication.

• •Designed pitch decks for 3 pre-seed startups (2 Techstars), sharpening positioning and competitive differentiation.
• •Delivered web redesigns, presentation templates, video graphics, and software tools for studio clients.

• •Created scrolling card stacks and an interactive water background for the portfolio. Specified timing and layering frame-by-frame from annotated reference videos.
• •Simplified portfolio publishing by replacing Sanity CMS and Cloudinary with repo-based content and Cloudflare R2; content edits ship with code and agents edit files directly.

• •Selected for national entrepreneurship fellowship (10% acceptance); workshops with McKinsey, IDEO, Frog Design. Led 5-person team to Judge Pick + Crowd Favorite in 3-day sprint, designing and pitching a city exploration app.

• •3.71 GPA; Honors, Dean's List; Frank Capra Prize for excellence in cinematic filmmaking, humor, and pathos
• •Led team to first place in Bethesda-founder-led game-dev intensive: shipped iOS demo, designed level structure and UI, pitched to AFI / Warner Bros. Games / Demiurge industry jury.