{
  "header": {
    "name": "Nathan Cheng",
    "subtitle": [
      "Film-trained design engineer working across visual systems and software tooling."
    ],
    "monomark": "/monomark.svg",
    "contact": {
      "email": "nthn.wei@gmail.com",
      "links": [
        {
          "url": "https://nathancheng.work",
          "label": "nathancheng.work"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://github.com/nweii",
          "label": "github.com/nweii"
        },
        {
          "url": "https://thirdwind.fyi",
          "label": "thirdwind.fyi"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "sections": [
    {
      "kind": "experiences",
      "label": "Experiences",
      "entries": [
        {
          "title": "Design & Engineering",
          "organization": "TALtech",
          "dateRange": "2021 - Present",
          "summary": "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.",
          "bullets": [
            "**Built connected customer, licensing, and order tools for daily operations across 40k+ legacy records.** Took a stalled database project in-house ($25–60k outside quotes), reconciling 30 years of mixed conventions in a Next.js/Supabase data model that preserves editable legacy history and enables AI-assisted investigation and further automation.",
            "**Reorganized support content and product navigation using AI-assisted audits and search analytics.** Migrated 200+ articles to Mintlify with Firecrawl/Python, enabling AI-assisted updates and preparing content for AI-search discovery.",
            "**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."
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Designer and Developer",
          "organization": "Foundation Studio",
          "dateRange": "2023 - 2024",
          "bullets": [
            "**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."
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "projects",
      "label": "Projects",
      "entries": [
        {
          "title": "Third Wind Software & independent tools",
          "dateRange": "2022 - Ongoing",
          "bullets": [
            "**Designed and shipped [Trickpad](https://thirdwind.fyi/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](https://community.obsidian.md/plugins/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](https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-jev)).",
            "**Reached 2,000+ installs without promotion** with a public subset of 30+ [reusable instruction sets](https://github.com/nweii/agent-stuff) for AI agents.",
            "**Developed a [remote MCP server](https://github.com/nweii/obsidian-remote-mcp) that lets AI agents read and edit an [Obsidian vault](https://nathancheng.fyi/) for shared context and handoffs.** Kept storage and access under user control with self-hosting and OAuth 2.1 authentication."
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Portfolio site",
          "dateRange": "2024 - Ongoing",
          "bullets": [
            "**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."
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "skills",
      "label": "Skills",
      "bullets": [
        "**Engineering:** JavaScript/TypeScript, Next.js, Tailwind, Astro, Bun, Supabase, Framer Motion, Cloudflare (Workers, R2, Zero Trust), Vercel, Docker, AI agent architecture (skills, plugins, context engineering, MCP servers), Claude Code, Codex",
        "**UX, Design, Content:** Figma, Adobe Photoshop, Final Cut, Affinity, UI, Design systems, Visual design, Branding, Typography, Information architecture, Prototyping, CSS animation, Accessibility (ARIA, keyboard handling), Video editing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "kind": "education",
      "label": "Education",
      "entries": [
        {
          "title": "Venture for America Fellowship (now Ember Fellowship)",
          "dateRange": "2023 - 2024",
          "bullets": [
            "**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."
          ]
        },
        {
          "title": "Web development foundations (The Odin Project) + Animations on the Web (Emil Kowalski)",
          "dateRange": "2022 - 2024"
        },
        {
          "title": "Wesleyan University - B.A. in Film Studies, Minor in Integrated Design and Engineering",
          "dateRange": "2016 - 2020",
          "bullets": [
            "**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."
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}