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.

• •Architected a relational Next.js + Supabase system to replace a legacy Access customer database of 40k+ records; outside vendors had quoted $25–60k for the project. Designed data model unifying customer & operational logic over 30 years of mixed conventions, speeding lookups & unblocking automation, with new APIs keeping legacy systems live.
• •Replatformed customer support docs from WordPress to Mintlify with a custom Firecrawl + Python pipeline, making the content easy to edit with AI and discoverable for AEO.
• •Streamlined marketing website from 700+ to ~200 core pages, leading information architecture and visual refinement.
• •Designed a component-system concept for the flagship workflow builder, unifying 40+ serial-device configuration options into a single progressive-disclosure flow modeled on native Windows patterns.
• •Reduced recurring setup questions ~30% with a walkthrough video series that replaced 90s-era documentation.

• •Designed pitch decks for 3 pre-seed startups (Techstars), sharpening positioning and competitive differentiation.
• •Built a React/Next.js config generator for an LLM interview chatbot, cutting setup errors for screening flows.

• •Designed and built a personal portfolio site with filtered views by medium and category, shareable via URL state.
• •Built motion details across the site: scroll-driven card stacking with iOS notification physics, shader-driven hero, layout-animated selection indicators, timing and layering specced frame-by-frame from annotated reference videos.
• •Consolidated content + media to MDX in repo + Cloudflare R2 (was Sanity CMS + Cloudinary): simplified stack so content edits ship with code, agents can read and edit directly.

• •Published 30+ agent skills (packaged instructions for AI tools) to the Vercel registry, crossing 2,000 installs unpromoted.
• •Structured a 5,400+ note Obsidian vault for agent access: typed metadata, live dashboards, hybrid semantic search, and recent-context injection at session start.
• •Built an OAuth 2.1 server for remote AI access to a headless Obsidian vault, with concurrency-safe section edits across multiple agents.
• •Built and operate a personal server stack running the vault, a persistent Claude Code agent, a clipper service, and self-built MCP servers accessed via Tailscale and Cloudflare Zero Trust SSO.

• •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.