Kelvin Zhang

I'm a designer and engineer focused on building high-craft consumer products. I enjoy making complex systems feel simple and designing around how people actually think and behave.

Previously built Gleam to 500k users and 7 figures in revenue.

Highlights

Endex

An AI-native workspace for modern financial intelligence.

A startup backed by OpenAI, I led product design, brand, and frontend.

North

An accessible and customizable design system built on top of TailwindCSS.

Hack the North

How we built the Hack the North 2022 brand, as well as other projects I worked on in my two years as a product designer and frontend developer on the team.

Projects

Glisse

A faithful implementation of Apple’s Liquid Glass for the web

htmldocs

A new way to typeset and generate PDF documents using React and JSX

Minicraft

A web-based Minecraft clone, built on WebGL

Minimal YouTube

A browser extension to simplify the YouTube experience

Pathfinding Visualizer

Performant visualizations of pathfinding algorithms on real-world cities.

Chameleon

Experimental browser that blends in with the current site. Built with Electron.

COVID Inc.

Interactive world map to visualize COVID spread similar to Plague Inc.

Arcade Machine

Raspberry Pi arcade cabinet built from scratch. Supports 30+ consoles.

Self-Driving Car

Autonomous driving with TWEANNs, trained with genetic algorithms.

Experience

Gleam

Current

Co-Founder

Endex

Founding Designer & Engineer

Notion

Design Engineering

The Browser Company

Arc.net

Instagram

Instagram Web / Ads

Compound

Design Engineering