Hi. I'm Swindar Zhou
Full Stack Developer & Tech Lead @ AI Wellness Startup
M.S. in Bioengineering (AI + Healthcare) • Stanford University
Expected May 2027 • Stanford, CA
Bioengineering
Machine Learning
Research
Python
B.S. in Computer Science • University of Notre Dame
Graduated May 2026 • Notre Dame, IN
Python
JavaScript
TypeScript
Swift
SQL
AI/ML
Engineering Lead / Tech Lead & PM • ROSYY (Stealth AI Startup)
Jan 2026 - Present • Remote / Bay Area
Building a perinatal wellness iOS app for mothers with postpartum depression — an AI chatbot paired with human coaching, with tiered monetization via Apple IAP and Stripe.
SwiftUI
SwiftData
Claude API
OpenAI API
Stripe
StoreKit 2
Chapter Founder → Advisor → Curriculum Builder • iGEM @ Notre Dame
Aug 2024 - Present • Notre Dame, IN
Founded Notre Dame's first undergraduate biotech incubator (200+ members, Gold Medal at the 2025 Paris Jamboree); now advising iGEM VCL startups and building an Entrepreneurship 101 curriculum.
Biotech
Go-to-Market
Product Strategy
Fundraising
Co-Founder & Organizer • SprintHack@ND — IDEA Center
Aug 2025 - Present • South Bend, IN
Founded Notre Dame's first AI hackathon — sold out at 60 people with $5K in prizes and judges from Google, Amazon, Replit, and top VCs; converted it into a recurring demo day and builder community.
Community Building
Event Production
Sponsor Relations
Lead Product Manager Intern • IDEA Center — Race to Revenue
May 2025 - Aug 2025 • Notre Dame, IN
Led AI/LLM product builds for pre-seed startups; drove $5M+ pipeline value and reduced LLM response latency 70% via prompt engineering and caching.
LLM
Prompt Engineering
RAG
LangChain
Product Management
Lead Product Manager • Pruun
May 2025 - Nov 2025 • Notre Dame, IN
Led the beta launch of a SaaS landscaping marketplace; 5 enterprise clients, $50K early revenue, and a 40% reduction in feature dev cycles.
SaaS
A/B Testing
Full-Stack
CRM
Agile
General Partner • Notre Dame Venture Capital
Sep 2024 - May 2025 • Notre Dame, IN
Led the valuation workstream on the $2.1B BlackBerry take-private; modeled the return profile across revenue, EBITDA, and margin scenarios and presented to Bain Capital principals.
Financial Modeling
M&A
Investment Memo
Teaching Assistant (only undergrad TA) • Notre Dame ESTEEM Graduate Program
Jun 2025 - Dec 2025 • Notre Dame, IN
TA for the Product Market Fit Lab and Idea Validation courses in Notre Dame's 11-month entrepreneurship master's, co-taught by John Vrionis and Germán Estrada.
Product-Market Fit
Idea Validation
Teaching
AI/ML Engineer • Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society
Sep 2024 - Present • Notre Dame, IN
Built an AI agent scraping 58 California counties for maternal health programs (2,852 structured records) and a RAG conversational interface for ZIP-code-level program discovery; selected for the RISE AI Conference.
RAG
TF-IDF
Python
LangChain
Web Scraping
Undergraduate Researcher / ML & Data Engineer • NDnano — Nanoscience & Technology Center
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025 • Notre Dame, IN
Co-authored a bioRxiv preprint on real-time electrochemical signal processing; built automated peak detection reducing manual analysis from 3 hours to under 1 second.
Python
Signal Processing
Full-Stack
Research
Outside of building, I train. Endurance on the road and impact in the ring — the same discipline that ships products.
Running
Long-distance runner — the miles are where I think clearest. Training is the same loop as building product: show up, log the reps, chase the next PR.
Notre Dame Holy Half — 13.1 mi
Boxing
Competitive boxer — footwork, timing, and the discipline of the ring. It keeps me sharp under pressure and comfortable being uncomfortable.
Notre Dame Boxing Club
From the bay I grew up on to the lakes I find wherever I land — water is where I slow down, think, and reset.
Shenzhen Bay
Where I grew up
St. Joseph's Lake
Notre Dame, IN
Lake Michigan
Benton Harbor, MI