Work

Our work.

Fall 2026 14 projects
  • Wikinewsie front page with a featured story and a storm-track map

    Open knowledge · New York City

    Wikimedia NYC

    Wikinewsie article grouping

    Adding article grouping to Wikinewsie, so contributors can link articles that cover the same news story.

  • Underwater video frame with reef fish flagged by detection boxes

    Ocean research · Woods Hole, MA

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Computer vision for reef fish

    Prototyping a model that detects and classifies reef fish in underwater video, and measuring how accuracy changes with camera setup and training data.

  • A laptop aboard a research vessel showing a sonar echogram

    Ocean research · Woods Hole, MA

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Echosounder dashboard

    A dashboard linking a research vessel's track on a map to the sonar echogram recorded along it, so scientists can inspect any stretch of a survey.

  • A WHOI research vessel at the Woods Hole dock

    Ocean research · Woods Hole, MA

    Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

    Dock scheduling

    A request and review system for dock access that surfaces scheduling conflicts and missing paperwork for staff.

  • NYC Mesh network map with node locations across the city

    Community internet · New York City

    NYC Mesh

    Hub maintenance tracker

    A tracker for the volunteer-run network's hubs, with a maintenance calendar, visit history, and open issues built on the MeshDB API.

  • Swipe Market listings for buying and selling meal swipes

    Campus · Morningside Heights

    Columbia Swipe Market

    Claims and payments

    Hardening the marketplace: reserving claimed listings, preventing double claims, restoring listings after failed payments, and separating the buy and sell flows.

  • Hands sketching storyboards on paper

    Youth digital arts · Lower Manhattan

    The Animation Project

    Participant records and attendance

    Connecting participant intake and consent to program registration and attendance, with per-program rosters and participation reporting.

  • Students raising their arms during a music performance

    Music education · Midtown Manhattan

    Education Through Music

    Curriculum library

    A searchable catalog of curriculum already stored in Google Drive, so teachers can find resources by song, grade, theme, or benchmark.

  • A tutor taking notes beside a laptop

    Adult literacy · Northern New Jersey

    Literacy Volunteers of America, Essex & Passaic

    Tutor reporting portal

    A mobile-friendly portal where volunteer tutors log sessions and hours, and staff manage assignments and export attendance and progress reports.

  • A gardener tending a raised bed in a community garden

    Community gardens · Brooklyn

    Green Guerillas

    Community events

    Helping gardeners find and register for events and volunteer opportunities, with tools for staff to publish listings and manage rosters.

  • Aerial view of a street turned into public space with planters and seating

    Streets and public space · New York City

    Open Plans

    Campaign tracking and reporting

    Replacing fragile spreadsheet handoffs with structured campaign records and reliable totals by campaign and reporting period.

  • A colorful mural along a building wall

    Family support · Long Island City, Queens

    Hour Children

    Website redesign

    Building a responsive, accessible website from the organization's new design for its housing and family support programs.

  • A volunteer leading a horse down a stable aisle

    Therapeutic riding · Forest Hills, Queens

    GallopNYC

    Enrollment and billing

    Evaluating platforms that connect rider enrollment, class scheduling, rosters, and recurring billing, to cut down on manual spreadsheet handoffs.

  • The Santa's Knights website homepage

    Community nonprofit · Harlem, NYC

    Santa's Knights

    Free resources finder

    Scoping and building an app that helps New Yorkers find free resources and activities, from gym access to community workshops.

Summer 2026 3 projects
iCatalyst, Inc. homepage

AI / ML / NLP — Remote engagement

iCatalyst, Inc.

A new website for an AI/ML/NLP/RPA technology firm serving federal and commercial clients since 2007. Headquartered in McLean, VA.

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Santa's Knights homepage

Community nonprofit — Harlem, NYC

Santa's Knights

A full rebuild of the website, gifting platform, and app for a Harlem nonprofit offering free martial arts, fitness, and community activities, including its Letters to Santa program.

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Redesigned StreetSquash homepage
In progress

Youth enrichment — Harlem, NYC

StreetSquash

Harlem youth-enrichment nonprofit combining squash, academic tutoring, and mentorship. Engagement in progress.

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Spring 2026 2 projects
Refettorio Harlem check-in tablet UI

Community kitchen — Harlem, NYC

Refettorio Harlem

WhatsApp logging bot and offline-capable tablet check-in app for a Harlem community kitchen. Replaces manual paper tracking with structured data pipelines writing to a shared Google Sheets backend.

  • Node.js
  • Express
  • Twilio API
  • React
  • Google Sheets API
  • IndexedDB
  • Railway
700+
guests per week
−5s
per customer
3
data streams unified
Refettorio Harlem in The New York Times
Columbia Swipe Market product UI

Campus — Morningside Heights

Columbia Swipe Market

The only marketplace for Columbia students to buy, sell, and donate meal swipes. Originally built by Owen Terry & Caroline Smyth in April 2025; transferred to Columbia Software Solutions for ongoing development and maintenance.

  • Flask
  • PostgreSQL
  • Google OAuth
  • Gmail API
  • Render
$7,000+
in meal swipes traded
100+
transactions in 2 weeks of launch

Originally built by Owen Terry & Caroline Smyth