March 2023 to November 2025

Software Development Society

Frontend Engineer → Director (Bridges) · UNSW Sydney

Three years with UNSW DevSoc: frontend contributor on Freerooms and Unilectives, then Director on Bridges. Bridges was leadership and coordination, not hands-on coding. I was not the sole developer of these products.

ReactNext.jsTypeScriptTailwindLeadership

The Freerooms landing page I redesigned and built, top to bottom.

Overview

DevSoc runs student project teams that ship apps used on campus. From March 2023 to November 2025 I progressed from frontend contributor to Director. Most of the work was joining existing codebases and shipping with a team, not building solo.

Freerooms · March to December 2023 · Frontend contributor

Freerooms shows which classrooms are free on campus. I redesigned and rebuilt the landing page (hero, features, FAQ, sponsors) and contributed to the Next.js migration and performance work. It was my first production app with pull requests, code review, and a shared design system.

Freerooms features section with browse, map, and timetable cards — The features section, part of the full landing page redesign.

Unilectives · March to December 2024 · Frontend contributor

Unilectives is DevSoc's course review platform. I worked on sponsor layouts for Jane Street, TikTok, and Macquarie, contributed analytics so the team could see what students used, and helped ship Unilectives Wrapped. While I was on the team, the platform received more than 10,000 pageviews in one month.

Unilectives homepage design with sponsor logos in the header area — Sponsor layout explorations for the Unilectives homepage.

Plausible analytics dashboard for Unilectives showing 10k pageviews — Over 10,000 pageviews in a single month while I was on the team.

Unilectives Wrapped 2024 hero screen — Unilectives Wrapped 2024 opening screen.

Unilectives Wrapped slide showing most popular course stats — A Wrapped slide showing course popularity and ratings.

Bridges · January to November 2025 · Director

Bridges connects UNSW societies with industry sponsors. I helped take the platform from zero to its first version. My role was leadership and coordination, not hands-on coding.

Before UI work, we spent months on requirements through surveys and interviews with societies and sponsors. As Director I led the team, reviewed work, and unblocked contributors. Version one supported browsing, society login, and onboarding, built by the developers and designers on the team.

Bridges v1 browse partnerships page — The v1 browse screen. Design as a shared picture of what the team was building toward.

Bridges society login page — Society login and sign-up flows from the v1 release.

What stuck

DevSoc is where version control, CI/CD, code review, and sprint planning became normal for me, in service of apps students actually use. Freerooms taught me an existing codebase. Unilectives taught me shipping features into something already scaled. Bridges taught me leading without needing to write every line.