→this is a perfect project on my new dashboard tbh.

Findings

• Storytelling is up XXX% in job descriptions. Financial Storytelling is a real job hired for in tech.
• Need to avoid traditional business analyst roles (which I now would be perfect for) and non-technical product roles.

What do I want to do? Interests?

• Product Oriented Developer or Eletronics Engineer
• Small consumer goods hardware team for healthcare
• Wearables or eletronics for healthcare / accessibility / IoT with biosensors embedded in furniture or fashion accessories
• Medical IoT
• Prototyping at larger R&D lab
• Storytelling skills matter.
• Technical Work Only, leveraging my storytelling skills.

PLAY

pure generalist

if you’re building &

• Portfolio is about me
• 1 marketing project
• 1 video explaining my story
• go to hackathons; demo days.
• make videos / projects on Twitter.
• drop thoughts once a day.
• Cowork spaces; demos;

“I work with code, product, market and get shit done.“

What is the engineer post AI?

Ask Nicole who’s a startup that needs someone like me.

Companies

Specific Companies I admire

1. Yukai Engineering Inc.
2. Fashion companies - e-commerce - supply chain;
3. Woop; Oura Rings;
4. top 10 VCs in NYC

Skills

1. Rapid Prototyping - I can design, build, test, and iterate solo as well as create and implement go-to market strategy
1. Full Stack Web Dev Stack
2. Eletronics
1. → danger: fast prototyping with eletronics is not my strength.
2. Should I go for product design instead?
2. Technology Strategy

Groups of Strengths

1. Comfortable across software, hardware, and narrative framing.
2. Rare combination of research literacy; deployment and public policy.
3. Storytelling / Brand Narrative
4. Demonstrated ability to ship experiential, interactive systems

Soft(er) skills

1. Institutional traditional credibility (NYU, EU, Fulbright, UN-adjacent)
2. Comfortable with ambiguity

Evidence of AI / Full stack development work

1. Data Engineering (Wrangling, Analysis and Pipeline Development); Web Developer & Research Assistant @NYU, developing software and data pipelines on a climate-risk research project

→ Creating a machine learning training set that powers accurate climate-risk visualisations with Python.

2. Center for Responsible AI → creating AI persona for ALS patients

How hiring managers will pitch me

• Engineer who understands society, people and institutions and our industry with good ideas and who takes initiative
• Bridge between research, product, and storytelling - for smaller teams.

Evidence of Social Good / Impact Driven Work

1. Software developer, Unbabel / Center for Responsible AI helping ALS patients create their own AI persona
2. Research Assistant, NYU, developing software and data pipelines on a climate-risk research project
3. My own startup for youth employment, helping students experiment with their career path;

→ Forward Startup Pre-Acceleration Program Finalist, Startup Lisboa

4. 2.5 years at European Investment Fund (Luxembourg) - Campaigns Marketing Officer

→ Public Policy & Technology

5. Human Rights in the Perspective of the Youth Photography Competition, Associação Duarte Tarré - Honorable Mention

Leadership and Teaching Evidence

2022 ∙ Invited Storytelling Speaker at JEF Europe (Kortrijk, Belgium)

2022 ∙ Project co-lead on Intergenerational Justice, Generation Climate Europe

2021 ∙ Art Counsellor and Advisor, Terragon Nature Labs (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

2022 ∙ Friend of the European Climate Pact, European Commission

2020 ∙ Social Impact Case Competition Jury, 180 Degrees Consulting

2019 ∙ Social Impact Consultant, 180 Degrees Consulting

Fundamental Beliefs

1. Socially mindful businesses are profitable and worthwhile.
2. IoT with biosensors embedded in furniture is about to take over in a way everyone wants to resist, but can’t. Seamless integration.

Hardware and consumer eletronics - Fashion as interface

1. Charming robots and fashionable AI companions for daily life and fashion girlies will dictate. More and more collaborations between fashion and tech companies.
1. Jewelry can function as infrastructure without announcing itself as such. Rituals makes information exchange legible and human again.
2. Fashion and ornament are early, powerful interfaces of selfhood.
2. Single Purpose (Playful) Hardware is the future for the privileged. The new gaming. It creates healthier relationships with technology than multipurpose devices.
3. Corporations should not be the default custodians of memory, culture, or identity. Society is almost ready to enforce this. Being a slave to your one device is for the non-privilege.
4. Playfulness and ritual are interaction design tools. Our rituals with our daily tech are rooted in consumerism and abundance. We’ve reached the limit as a society.

Infrastructure for Meaning

1. Humans are tired of doing the labour of passing information between apps (hAPI).
2. Data is the new gold. It needs to be given meaning. Extracting relevant data about daily life from the conglomerate of products we use has huge potential.
3. People are looking to simplify their lives. Everyone is tired.
4. Human-curated knowledge is more valuable than algorithmically generated or optimized content.
5. Source material matters; summaries, feeds, and SEO erode how knowledge is understood.
6. Knowledge should remain intact, situated, and traceable to human intention.
7. AI is flooding culture faster than humans can contextualize it.

Interests

• Furniture / Existing in physical spaces
• Memory / Aggregation of the past so individuals aren’t held hostage by their computers.
• Sustainability driven
• Profiling of users in a more ethical way
• Experiential Retail Design x Popups / personalization
• Accessibility in information

Personal Pitch

Why I did what I did and how does this connect to what I want to do moving forward?

1. Studied business and worked at the EU because I believe everyone should feel empowered to create their own systems and solutions and know where the tools are.
2. At the EU, had direct contact with the public policy and teams that shape where technology and society is going.
3. Quit my job, started learning how to code and eletronics. Since then, been working with impact startups as a developer.

Next Steps

1. Are there any well paid artist–technologist-first jobs? Is the answer really a sure no? Artist who builds systems vs Engineer who does art.
2. Dan Shiffman → Tech & Society

Goal for Jan 20

1. 2 resumés (?). - or pause.
2. Companies recently funded. 5 or 6 that make sense to me.
1. target people.
3. Make 1 or 2 demos.
4. Prep my accounts.
5. Write my intro (could be a thread).
1. Create a video about myself. Small introduction.
2. Talk about ITP & why I’m doing it.
6. Premium Twitter + better reach. So I can message people.
7. Post on LinkedIn.
8. Follow people.
9. Use Claude Code.
10. Write to Shawn, I wanna work at a startup → with AI people need generalists and if he knows anyone working in the fashion tech space.
11. Talk to Kari Love about Soft Robotics - weekly workload.
1. If im spending 7 hours a week doing a project im fucked.

Visa, monetary, do I have an in framework.

Verci has coworking.

Talk to Sai.

Demo Days.

Class Selections

Soft Robotics + Connected Devices

Soft Robotics (4) + Content Creator Studio (2; 7W1) + Open Source Studio (2; 7W1)

Soft Robotics (4) + Content Creator Studio (2; 7W1) + Open Source Studio (2; 7W1)

Haptics (1)

Haptics (1)

More classes added (March 2nd) - Ask for closed courses.

More classes added (March 2nd) - Ask for closed courses.