Maxwell Young

Silk is a platform for blogging, private archives, and moodboards.

• Built the initial mobile foundation, interface systems, and media-heavy flows. Own performance, accessibility, and release reliability across iOS and Android, validated with regression coverage and real-device checks.
• Ship backend work in Silk's TypeScript API: distributed rate limiting, account authentication, and feed and chat performance.

Design and build research applications end to end, including Rx-Opt and MRB-QoL 2.0.

• Own UX and interface design, application architecture, frontend and backend implementation, and testing in collaboration with researchers.
• Build clinician assessment and review workflows, patient questionnaires, and researcher dashboards. Validate data and keep source provenance visible within the applications.

Independent product and client studio for mobile apps, web products, and CMS-backed portfolio work.

• Shipped five iPhone apps to the App Store with React Native, Expo, and SwiftUI, including Vape Quit Coach.
• Delivered client sites with Next.js and Sanity for Ch'lita Collins (Fashion Editor-at-Large at i-D) and artist Dayle Palfreyman, plus Shopify performance and layout stability work for Goodness Gracious.

Mobile research tooling for sleep-session analysis and review.

• Built a React Native and Expo app for session review, questionnaires, and sleep-stage visualization.
• Integrated mobile, backend, and model-inference workflows for research use.

Internal analytics dashboard work for Spark's data intelligence team.

• Helped replace Power BI workflows with a React and Next.js dashboard.
• Built interface patterns and design system components for the team.