2026 · AI product discovery
Theo Gems
1st place winner at the Google Gemini hackathon. A personal guide inside TD MySpend that reads spending, savings, life events and uploaded documents, then recommends the banking, investing and insurance products that fit the users' needs.
- Role
- 1st place, Google Gemini × TD Hackathon
- Stack
- Gemini EnterpriseMulti-agentReact NativeGoogle Cloud
- Notes
- Won 1st out of 120 students, judged by 10 TD and Google executives, including TD's CIO
- Started as a hackathon project which turned into a series of follow up presentations within TD, first to 2 VPs, then an AVP, and eventually a full 400 person engineering org
2025 — 2026 · Social discovery
Chorus
Matches people through what they listen to, with a graph-based recommendation engine scoring overlap across listening history, artists, genres and tracks.
- Role
- Founder & engineer
- Stack
- React NativeFlaskSpotify APIFirebase
- Notes
- 150+ waitlist signups and 100k+ TikTok views before launch. Currently in review with the App Store
- In-chat song sharing, a native beat maker, community groups and nearby concert finder between users
2023 — 2025 · Biomedical ML
GastroTrackAI
Tracks intestinal health through on-device stool analysis, giving patients private, convenient insight they might not otherwise ask a doctor for.
- Role
- Mobile dev intern, then SWE intern
- Stack
- TypeScriptTensorFlowFirebaseStripe
- Notes
- Built early screens and features from the ground up, including barcode nutrition lookup and FODMAP tracking, improving analysis accuracy by ~40% along the way
- Diet, medication and symptom tracking for 100+ patients
2024 · Deep learning
Image Classifier
A convolutional network that classifies the 60,000 images of CIFAR-10 across ten categories, from planes to animals.
- Role
- Personal project
- Stack
- PythonTensorFlow / KerasNumPyMatplotlib
- Notes
- 70% validation accuracy with Adam and cross-entropy loss
- Training curves, confusion matrix and per-class accuracy on every run