I'm Wayz!

Rekindling maker/hobbyist culture in Australia by running weekly demo / work sessions and breaking records for largest HS hackathons in the Southern Hemisphere. Learning how to build a volunteer charity where I can be obsolete - training up newbies, writing documentation, keeping the structure nimble, exporting learnings to other teams.

The closest institutional manifestation of my philosophy on people, really one of my prides and joys :). It's hard to properly express how much I've learned growing this (with the incredible team). Fought headless CMS systems on behalf of humanity. High-pressure event ops and coordinating MANY parties. Lots of small lessons about how shipping is always a coordination problem first.

<0.5% acceptance rate. 26 of the most precocious high schoolers were interviewed and later selected out of a pool of 5,000+ applicants. Mentored by YC founders and VCs. Admitted for my eccentricities in the Aussie startup ecosystem. I usually have a distaste for massive institutions, but in saying that, the cohort is a vibe. Despite the discontinuation of TECH, our 26 cohort members have gone on to do any of: be admitted into Y Combinator, studying at a T20 college, yet to graduate high school (but still building), or architecting their dream life.

tech.seas.harvard.edu

Rekindling maker/hacker culture in 60+ cities worldwide by running weekly demo / cowork sessions. Learning how to leverage an org of 50,000 ppl where I can be obsolete - training up newbies, writing documentation, keeping the structure nimble, exporting learnings to other teams.

buildclub.ai

An education from YC founders, Thiel Fellows and Forbes 30U30 mentors in how founders, makers, builders think about living life, and a few extremely sharp opinions from the founder side about how it should work.   tks.world/alumni

On the operations team for my city's local government area of a population of a quarter million people, planning/hosting events for young people, panicking the heck out of everything to make foolproof risk assessments.

Had the privilege to create, launch, and grow awareness for Sydney's homeless population. Our org was lucky enough to partner with Vinnies and the Salvos. Got the opportunity to speak & help out with the amazing staff & patrons at the Rough Edges Soup Kitchen.

helpelevateyouth.org

A quick intro to electromagnetism and how it can be integrated with a real world technologies and allignment with the state's physics syllabus in collaboration with Edrolo ($40m Series B). Originally created for Scrapyard Sydney 2025!

Co-built a web app to objectively determine fidelity and number of shots for quantum image reconstruction using FRQI vs. NEQR. Paper co-authored with my now good friend Jill, whom I met when was a student researcher in Year 12 at UNSW.

Tiktok, youtube shorts, instagram reels The thesis: genZ has cooked attention spans, so why not harness it? Beep boop. First job, first time being told that "the model is right and the trainers are wrong" is sometimes true and sometimes career suicide. - UPenn Wharton Summit Winner - Samsung Solve For Tomorrow STEM Competition Winner 14-18 div ($6600+)  Press

A database for precocious young individuals to find out about opportunities that they would not have otherwise stumbled across.

Co-architected, designed, and implemented end-to-end. Connects to internal data system. React + Flutter + Supabase. The obligatory "build an application portal" arc in every software engineer's career - only this one had ~100,000+ transactions over a single weekend ... and may have been nuked thrice.

Chemistry is a studystream.live-style online peer meeting for AP students aged 14–17, pairing users based on subjects, learning styles, schedules, and academic goals. It uses a swipe-based matching interface to eliminate the social friction of forming study groups, with integrated Google Calendar scheduling, built-in video chat, and gamified reward systems to keep students motivated and accountable.

Co-designed during my time in Harvard's TECH Fellowship. Continued during Blackbird VC's Giants Accelerator.

Coming Soon!

Coming Soon!

Ongoing. First time directing, producing, and editing my own large project. Basically a large research project documented on camera.

Now know an abnormal amount about video codecs, permitting, and the ERCOT grid.

Preparation for the documentary arc. Most of these aren't going anywhere. Some of them are quietly the best images I've ever made.

Hard tech is unreasonably photogenic if you point a camera at it at the right time. The "right time" turns out to be 80% boring and 20% genuinely terrifying.

An education in interviewing — how to make smart people sound like themselves, and how much editing has to go on before that can happen on tape.

Did this animation on a deadline that I should not have agreed to. Worth it.

Designed for high schoolers but ended up being useful for VC associates too. The fastest possible on-ramp from "I should care" to "I know where to look next".

Anson-try-not-to-design-with-the-color-green challenge: impossible.