Path
Founding,competing,research,athletics—thelongarcfromclassroomtopodium.
Experience
Led frontend development with Next.js.
Led backend development with tRPC and React.
Designed scalable infrastructure with sockets (Pusher.js), Supabase read replication, Render with load balancer, and Vercel for minimized geographical latency.
Created the Studious School Development Program, intended to bring modern learning to underprivileged communities.
Worked as frontend and backend developer with AI-driven workflows to secure a 1st Place Best Overall Hack at HackHarvard China 2025.
Led frontend redesign.
Developed backend infrastructure.
Assisted in inferencing infrastructure and design.
Assisting in frontend rebuild ideation and architecture (unpublished).
Working on migrating features to a new codebase to serve 30+ U.S. institutions.
Engineer and Programmer — 15520X (MECH_IT_HAPPEN)
September 2025 – Present
WORLDS QUALIFIER through Excellence Award at Alpine Robo Games 2026 — 3rd place skills, 3rd place qualifiers.
Ranked 4th Skills, 7th Overall at Swiss Regional Competition (Santa Clash @ ISBasel).
Assisted in robot creation and design.
Engineered autonomous control mode.
Programmed interface for human interactions (controller).
Athletics
Competitive Swimmer · September 2023 – Present · Switzerland
2-year Swimming MVP at Le Rosey.
Total medals: 14 (8 Gold | 4 Silver | 2 Bronze).
Events: Individual Medley, Freestyle (100 m, 200 m relay, 50×4 IM relay), Medley Relay, Open Water.
ADISR 2025 EHL: Silver 50 m Free; Gold 4×50 Free.
MLS 2025 June/July: Silver (IM); Gold — 100 m Free | 200 m Freestyle Relay | 200 m Medley Relay.
ADISR 2024 EHL: Bronze — 100 m Free; Gold — IM Relay & Freestyle Relay.
Recognition
1st Place Overall, "Best Overall Hack" Winner.
Podium finish out of 300+ participants during the 2026 HackMIT China Challenge. Built Nomad in 36 hours.
Achieved 1000 / 1000 in the USACO Silver contest to be directly promoted to USACO Gold.
Won Excellence Award for VEX Robotics Swiss qualifications and qualified for VEX Worlds in Dallas, Texas. Issued by VEX Robotics.
Invited as one of only two high school teams to attend HackHarvard 2025.
3rd Place, "Coding" track; 450+ participants in total.
API endpoint and its value in Chinese international education
Feng Xiao, Xuren Shen (2026). Forthcoming.
Training AI for Pragmatics Assessment
Xiao, F., Taguchi, N., Li, S. & Shen, A. (May 2025). Computer Assisted Language Learning Consortium (CALICO): San Diego, CA. Forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Educator and Developer · The Lost Food Project
October 2025 – May 2026 · Environment
Lead a team of students to develop a web-based game for Earth Day, spreading awareness about food waste.
Meet the person behind it
About & connect →