I make playful, useful web things.

You can call me 15. I studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with degrees in physics, mathematics and computer science; my thesis was on quantum information in combinatorial game theory. Starting from my freshman year, I spent much of my free time developing the most cutting-edge speech synthesis algorithm known to humanity at the time.

During my final year at MIT, I co-founded an analytics startup that would later be accepted into the Y Combinator accelerator. While I had originally planned to pursue a PhD with my research, I ultimately made the decision to move to San Francisco to continue working on the startup as its Chief Technology Officer. Eventually, I left the startup, as its pivot to a B2B model made me disillusioned and less excited about the work I was doing. After that, I was hired by a few other YC startups as CTO, but was never fully satisfied with my place in life.

In 2020, I created 15.ai, a project that started as a fun little application of my speech synthesis research, which ended up exploding in popularity and essentially becoming a precursor to generative AI apps like ChatGPT.

Despite not being an artist or graphic designer myself, I've always been obsessed with web design.

I'm a huge fan of video games, especially competitive ones. I'm FACEIT Level 10 in CS:GO and usually hover around 2200 (Chess.com rating) in bullet and blitz chess. I love rhythm games, especially DDR.