russell jiang
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projects

things i build and maintain. small list, on purpose.

01 sydney scholars

a tutoring platform for sydney students. i build the machinery behind it: the admin, tutor, and student portals, the pipeline that turns a trial class into a term enrolment, and an ai tutor whose rag pipeline reads the class material and nothing it shouldn’t.

role
tech lead. portals, the enrolment lifecycle, the ai tutor end to end (ingestion, retrieval, evals)
stack
React · TypeScript · Supabase (Postgres, edge functions)
links
sydneyscholars.com

02 this site

my corner of the internet, which slowly turned into its own cms. the bio, the shelf, the study plan, even the kaomoji get edited live on the site; the repo just keeps the fallbacks. there’s also a vim command mode, a motion trial with a leaderboard, a guestbook, and a bonsai tree in here somewhere.

role
everything, with a pair programmer
stack
Next.js 15 · React 19 · Tailwind · Vercel Blob
links
source you are here

03 proxima

an ai learning system living in my obsidian vault, named for the zone of proximal development by way of the nearest star still out of reach. the agent finds the edge of what i understand, teaches one reasoning step at a time, spars instead of lecturing, and logs every confusion, then schedules the rematch weeks later. one law holds it together: i generate first. it never does the thinking for me.

role
designer, and the n of 1
stack
claude code · obsidian · plain markdown, on purpose
links
the philosophy