I’m a serial founder, software developer, person who likes exercise, transplant recipient, and bilingual.
I currently do ML/AI software development work for a Fortune 100 company in the Bay Area. I’m fortunate enough to be listed as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignite Innovators in Seoul, where I help scout and assess biotech startups for investment and incubation. I suspect that eventually they’d like me to found a bio-adjacent startup of my own.
My public Twitter account is @LSwank, where I’m relatively quiet. I’m much more unfilted here.
I mostly write about cross-cultural competence, design thinking applied to the world, health, technology, . . . just whatever is on my mind.
Some of my best posts are:
- the one where I talk about how to learn a new language fluently,
- the one where I talk about how to honor the cultures in which you were raised,
- the one where I talk about being extremely lucky, and
- the one where I advocate for more vibing and less frantic doing.
Cool Things I’ve Done
- Developed 70+ mobile apps as founder of an app dev studio while being a university student for clients such as 3M, Kaiser, and Rio Tinto.
- Early member of Seoul-based Malang Studio. (Acquired by Yellow Mobile)
- Former COO of MEP Tech. (Exited to ULyte)
- Former Startup Mentor at the Seoul Global Startup Center.
- Created and taught the first University-level iPhone development class outside of Stanford, for the University of Utah, which I started while still an undergrad.
- Launched 3 of the first 300 apps on the Apple App Store on opening day.
- Published the first game on the jailbroken iPhone, “Mobile Tetris”. Featured in Popular Science.
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