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Open to senior IC roles: AI, voice, product engineering
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Open to senior IC roles: AI, voice, product engineering
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whoischrislam/README.md

Hi, I'm Chris Lam

Senior product designer who ships the code. 14 years designing products, and I build the whole thing now, no handoff.

I work across product, design, and engineering, and I use AI as a force multiplier to move fast while owning the architecture and the product calls. Design is where I start; production is where I finish.

👀 Open to senior product design and design-engineering roles. Full-time. I'm selective about the problem, not the introduction, so reach out directly. whoischrislam@gmail.com

Recent work

I advise y30, voice AI for older adults and their caregivers. As co-founder I owned product, design, and the voice stack:

  • Real-time voice pipelines and AI agents.
  • Products that create useful caregiver signal, not just transcripts.
  • An FSM safety engine with deterministic crisis response, so the model never generates crisis language.
  • Built for healthcare reality: messy workflows, safety constraints, and real adoption.

Background

14 years across product, design, and engineering. Repeatedly the first, sole, or early hire at the stage where the product got decided.

  • Co-founder & CEO, PlaySesh. Built the first version solo in Vanilla JS, Express, and Supabase, then brought on a co-founder (CTO) and a founding engineer to grow it. Started as a social gaming play against loneliness, then pivoted to a real-time collaborative design tool for indie game devs inside Discord. Grew organically to over 6,200 authorized Discord accounts and 138 server installs, peaking at 1,043 monthly active users in January 2026. Discord counts are approximate, as of August 1, 2026.
  • GoodRx / Iodine. First full-time designer, pre-IPO. Took coupon conversion from 2% to 5%; data viz referenced in The New York Times, and on Good Morning America / ABC News.
  • Clover Health. 2nd designer, pre-IPO. Rebuilt the nurse home-visit tool for roughly 7–8× revenue impact.
  • doc.ai (acquired by Sharecare), Amazon, and TaskRabbit (acquired by IKEA), plus other 0→1 and growth-stage work.

Build stack

  • Python, TypeScript, React.
  • LiveKit, realtime audio, AI agent pipelines.
  • Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Docker.
  • Figma, systems thinking, and shipping taste.

Links

Outside work: board games (I'm designing one), 20+ years dancing, and roller skating.

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  1. assumption-inspector assumption-inspector Public

    Shows what an AI thinks you mean about a visual design, previews each interpretation, and lets you accept, reject, or lock it before code changes. Speculative concept demo.

    TypeScript