Ivan Zhao
Design Engineer at Typeface
Ivan Zhao
Design Engineer at Typeface
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Design Engineer
2024 - Current
Design Engineer
2022
Freelance projects in illustration, branding, product design, and sites. Message me for a list of clients
Founding Frontend Engineer
2023 - 2024
Built web and mobile design systems, computational layout grids, and a lot of early product. Employee #3. Helped raise $4.4 mill seed.
Fellow
2022 - 2022
Partner
2020 - 2022
Pitched many investments, designed a lot of decks, ran a summer program of 20 people
Web Engineer
2021 - 2021
API for geospatial data. Built data pipelines, web apps, and SDK's
Software Engineer
2021 - 2021
Lending for mortgage systems. Worked on the consumer banking team and built microservices for cross-product recommendations and email templates
Fellow
2019 - 2020
Prototyped video communication with sentiment analysis models
Education
Latest Articles
⚡️ Reboot Merch is Here
Talks about Reboot merch line, Ivan Zhao designs and Reboot community programming
i'm homesick and i can't help it
Talks about Zócalo in Mexico City, conversation with Chinese grandma and Chinese language
on the passage of time
Talks about Providence to Boston trip, Newsletter platform change and Returning to Boston/Providence post-graduation
⚡Announcing the 2023 Reboot Student Fellowship
Talks about Reboot Student Fellowship, technology's societal impact and tech for good