Sarah Zhang

I enjoy going from 0→1, turning ideas into something tangible. I've been the first product-design-minded engineering hire at seed-stage and series A startups. Currently contracting, playing with AI creative tools, and training image models. Based in SF.

Howie

Founding Designer 2023–2025

AI scheduling agent that handles meetings over email. As the first hire, I designed and built features end-to-end, including onboarding, preferences, emails, growth levers, and internal tooling to train and observe the models.

Lit Protocol

Design Engineer 2022–2023

Decentralized key management for the web. As the only designer on a team of ~10, I improved developer experience by building auth SDKs, example apps, and domain wallets. Redesigned the marketing site and developer docs.

Racket

Frontend Developer 2021–2022

Short-form social audio app. Ran product, design, and QA as the sole frontend dev. Shipped a recording studio, audio DMs, and playlists. 20K users, 75K listens. Same team as Capiche, ~5 people.

Capiche

Frontend Developer 2020–2021

Community platform where SaaS buyers shared pricing and negotiated deals. As the first and only frontend/design hire, I built onboarding, notifications, search, and product wikis. 10–20% MoM growth in active users. Acquired by Vendr.