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ETHAN ZHAO
I'm Ethan! I love designing & building things. Welcome to my homepage!
ABOUT ME
Work:
- Founding Engineer at Magic/Loyalist (currently)
- Founding Engineer at Pika
- SWE Intern at Pika
- PM Intern at Splunk
- ML & PM Intern at WatchCharts
Education:
@ The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Operations, Information, & Decisions
- Minor in CS
Outside of Work:
- Developing recipes
- I ran a pop-up dining concept in college
- I staged at two Michelin starred restaurants: Tuome & Yingtao
- Spending time in makerspaces (pics coming soon)
- Enjoying: volleyball, running, board games, crosswords, farmers' markets
RECENT PROJECTS
Quest Online
- Shipped a real-time, web-based social-deduction game supporting 4–10 players with lobbies, invite links, and resume-on-reconnect
- Implemented WebSocket real-time messaging and a server state machine with optimistic UI
PDF Querier
- Utilized retrieval-augmented generation to enable querying across multiple PDF files
- Created Q&A interface providing document citations and answer history
Procedural City
- Implemented 3D wave function collapse to generate non-deterministic layouts for a city
- Worked with computer graphics team to populate layout with assets
Penn Playbook
- Developed app showcasing visualizations of mood/energy tracking, confessions, hypotheticals, and other data from Penn's student population
ethanxyzhao@gmail.com
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