ethan.h

Education

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, BC

Bachelor of Computer Science and Business | CGPA: 4.0, Dean's Honor List

Graduating: May 2026

Experience

OnDeck AI (YC S25)

Jan. 2026 - Current

Founding Designer

Vancouver, BC

  • Leading OnDeck AI's brand strategy and digital presence, including product narrative, visual identity, and enterprise credibility.

AthenaHQ

Oct. 2025 - Nov. 2025

Design Engineer

San Francisco, CA

  • Built end-to-end onboarding flow with TypeScript, React, and AI SDK, using a brand data ingestion pipeline to optimize LLM context trees and cut client onboarding time by 40-50% across 30+ enterprise organizations.
  • Orchestrated backend Temporal workflows for web crawling, content parsing, sentiment analysis, and generative AI context guidelines using Gemini 3.0, ensuring onboarding interactions updated dynamically from live brand data.
  • Prototyped adaptive UI states and LLM-assisted tutorials with Figma and React, leveraging Claude and Cursor to quickly iterate on interactive interfaces and simulate real AI streaming responses.
  • Implemented workflow monitoring and alerts for workers, reducing silent context failures and improving reliability.

ICBC

Jan. 2025 - Aug. 2025

UX Engineer Intern

North Vancouver, BC

  • Developed enterprise-grade web applications within an Agile environment using React, Next.js, and GraphQL, integrating Contentful and Elasticsearch for fast content retrieval and WCAG-compliant accessibility.
  • Enabled live UX behavior analysis of 40,000 daily users across 4 production apps by implementing Fullstory SDK.
  • Proposed and architected a centralized design system and component library in Axure RP, defining a private NPM versioning strategy to eliminate component duplication across codebases.

Moment Energy

Sep. 2024 - Dec. 2024

Design Engineer Intern

Coquitlam, BC

  • Created and scaled a production Figma design system for complex battery data analytics.
  • Reduced battery incident rates by 30% by designing, implementing, and delivering a client-facing analytics dashboard that surfaced actionable alerts and enabled remote firmware actions using React and D3.