technical co-founder & tech lead @ gradstay

built a landing page collaborating with the designer using reactjs, vite, and tailwind css which collected 100+ waiting list emails

built the first mvp feature testing the hypothesis of allowing tenants to create profiles for their houses in exchange for part of the commission when the house is rented out

pivoted into a more traditional estate agency pipeline and built a form for tenants looking for rentals

built scraping pipeline using firebase cloud functions and headless browsers with puppeteer to collect rental property data from the largest platforms in the uk

constructed a sophisticated property matching algorithm to determine the probability that two listings from different platforms referred to the same property

intelligent searching of the scraped property database to fetch matches based on simple query

used python to create a neural network to predict rental value of a property built off the dataset of scraped properties

created a new landing page for findhousing in collaboration with the designer that used reactjs, vite, and typescript which got user rental search details and whatsapp contact information

used the whatsapp cloud api and openai api to create a chatbot that would translate natural language into database queries and send the user a list of homes that matched their search

created a new version of the chatbot with more advanced onboarding capabilities and more specific natural language property searches, filtering homes based on text descriptions matched with user preferences, using the neural network rental predictor to advise users if their budget was too low for the area

based on customer demand, created a new web app for yuzuu using reactjs, nextjs, typescript, and firebase that allowed for more traditional property searching, similar to the web version of skyscanner but for property rentals

worked around the limitations of firebase firestore to optimize property fetching, including complex queries, sorting of query results, and support for lazy loading with query cursor

updated the scrapers to use scrapingbee for certain platforms

built a gradstay chatbot with whatsapp cloud api and openai api that onboarded users asking for their property rental search details, automating the estate agent task of collecting user details from the prospective tenant

built a new landing page for gradstay with the designer that included an authentication flow using a custom sign-in flow of sending an otp to the user's whatsapp in order to sign up, signing up 750+ users

built an admin panel to manage customer relationships with all the users, including seeing the user logs with the chatbot and their search details

smart matching of users whenever a new property was onboarded, used to message all matching users

built a new property listing flow for landlords, including smart address matching from postcodes, photo compression and uploads to firebase storage, and ai property description generation using photos and property details

integration with discord to notify the company server whenever a new user or property is onboarded

tested the key hypothesis of the findhousing lead magnet with 25+ test users via whatsapp, sending them houses that matched their criteria as soon as the scrapers found them

through key partnerships, onboarded 115+ properties on the database