Hey, I'm Calix! I like building stuff that people use.

I'm currently living in San Francisco building a startup in stealth (YC W23). I was previously a freshman at USC, but I'm currently on leave to work full-time.

I started coding in my freshman year of high school, learned basic ML/AI & full-stack web development, attended hackathons, did a few SWE internships, and somehow stumbled into startups.

I spent over a year building a 3 different companies, 2 of which ended up being acquired. Most notably, I built Hours which was acquired by Fiveable.

After that, I helped lead product at Fiveable and did engineering/growth at Cornell, Uiflow (YC W21), Beacons.ai (a16z, YC), Kinetic, etc. I was also an Atlas Fellow and an On Deck Fellow (ODC1, ODET2).

I moved to LA and study at USC and became 1 of 42 students in the USC Iovine & Young Academy studying CS, design, business, and communication. In my first semester, I became a Venture Partner at Contrary, joined a few clubs on campus, and made lifelong friends.

A few days before my second semester, I was accepted to Y Combinator's W23 batch and I dropped out of my second semester to pursue my current startup full-time in San Francisco.