I grew up on stage.
Dance, singing, and just about every Asian instrument. Missing school for shows was pretty normal; by high school, I was directing plays.
I thought I’d build a career in business around what I loved and did well: storytelling.
Hey, I'm Sunny
a theatre kid with a GitHub
Also a content creator, a full-stack engineer, a growth hacker, a double degree student, a product manager, a storyteller, an entrepreneur, an event host, a video editor, an operator, AI pilled, SUPER HYPE (+ FUN), a visionary (or delusional?).
I grew up in the performing arts, learned to code at a hackathon my friends dragged me to, and have been finding excuses to build things ever since.
Computer science
University of WaterlooBusiness administration
Lazaridis School of Business
University of WaterlooBusiness administration
Lazaridis School of Business
- 2M+ views @ notion, stan, polarity, 1851 labs
- built software for 5400+ engineers @ rocket
- won 3 hackathons
- hosted events for 500+ people
I wanted to see more girls running things.
So I founded The Pink Stairs, a feminist nonprofit. I handled everything from content to volunteer operations.
The results:
- Grew our channels to 30M+ views
- Hired 300 volunteers across 26 countries
- Distributed 820 care packages to domestic violence survivors
Then my friends dragged me to a hackathon.
I didn’t know how to code. But I fell in love with building, and decided that was a pretty good reason to learn. Many weekends and a lot of learning later, I’ve picked up three hackathon wins.
Suddenly, I had another subject I wanted to spend years learning.
So my university plans became a little more ambitious. I’m studying computer science at Waterloo and business at Lazaridis.
CSComputer science
University of Waterloo
BBABusiness administration
Lazaridis School of Business
Wilfrid Laurier University
Then I started thinking out loud on the internet.
Apparently, two degrees weren’t enough to keep me busy. I took the storytelling online. I post about student life, careers, fashion to an audience of 15k followers.
I started telling stories for other people’s products.
I did growth + content for Notion, Stan, Polarity, and 1851 Labs, reaching millions of views. A lot of writing, editing, and experimenting for different kinds of products and audiences.
I thought an AI stylist would be fun to build.
With some friends, I started building oro.
We built:
- A clothing segmentation system to separate individual garments from photos.
- An outfit recommendation system using clothing attributes and embeddings.
- A mobile app that brought it all together.
oro got 4,300+ downloads.
Next came a summer of software engineering at Rocket.
What I shipped:
- An AI skill registry for 5,400+ engineers.
- An AI workflow cutting manual QA time by 75%.
- Site performance improvements reducing latency by 55% for a site with 600k+ monthly visitors.
I kept building, this time as a product manager.
I joined UW Blueprint to build pro bono software for nonprofits.
That looked like:
- Scoping the product through 12+ hours of client discovery.
- Defining 13 core workflows into technical requirements.
- Leading 10 engineers and designers through 7 sprints.
We built an event management platform for a nonprofit serving 10k+ members.
Then I found another way to build community: hosting events.
I hosted two events for Waterloo Tech Week.
The results:
- 1,000+ signups
- $1,200+ in ticket sales
- 7 sponsorships
Then I took oro on a startup reality show.
I spent two weeks at Stan Launchpad rebuilding, launching, and monetizing oro on iMessage, and competing for a $100k prize.
oro generated $1,800 in revenue.
Whatever comes next, I want to build it with people who care.
Currently growing oro, keeping up with 2 degrees, and finding somewhere exciting to work for winter 2027.
All that scrolling, and we haven’t even met.
If you need someone who can build the product and understand the people using it, let’s talk.
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