Ozan Sozuoz — Senior Frontend Engineer · New York, NY
I build interfaces
a million people use.
I’m a senior frontend engineer. Six years building React, React Native & Next.js at scale — and, on the side, products of my own.
Who
Ozan Sozuoz
Senior Frontend Engineer, based in New York, NY.
Status
Open to senior frontend roles
Impact — at work
1M+
users on the platform I lead frontend for at TeamBuildr.
$3.5M+
annual revenue driven as lead frontend on the tipping platform at Two Maids.
6+
years shipping production React across web & mobile.
Toolbox
Where I’ve worked
TeamBuildr
NowSenior Frontend Developer
Shipped AI-powered workout generation — a coach types a sentence, the platform returns a structured training plan.
I own the React & React Native architecture serving 1M+ athletes, and built the analytics and reporting experiences around it.
Two Maids
’20—’23Frontend Developer
Built the customer tipping platform end to end — $3.5M+ a year across 150+ franchise locations, on a three-engineer team.
Globme
’20Frontend intern — Vue & GraphQL.
On the side
Products of my own.
Indie software I designed and built end to end — two live, three open source.
LISTENING
2m 20s
Model-generated live summary · Claude Code
SUMMARY
A tech creator/commentator is reacting to a prominent AI figure (likely an Anthropic executive) posting enthusiastically about Claude’s Slack integration. The speaker finds the post cringe-worthy but argues it contains genuine industry lessons. The segment transitions into a sponsor read for CodeRabbit.
KEY POINTS
- Influential AI figure posted about Claude’s Slack bot; speaker suspects viewers might think the figure “drank the Kool-Aid” as a recent hire
- Speaker reluctantly does three things they dislike: defending Anthropic, making a video, and talking about Slack
- Despite reservations, calls the post “actually pretty cool” with real industry lessons
- Claude in Slack (@Claudetag) requires Team or Enterprise plans; speaker jokes they can’t afford it at full token rates vs. their subsidized subscription
SPONSOR: CODERABBIT
- Current code review UX is broken — e.g., 11,000-line PRs sorted alphabetically is “nonsense”
- CodeRabbit breaks PRs into logical layers, sorts files in a meaningful order
- Speaker credits CodeRabbit as the single company that has prevented the most production outages on their services
- Speaker found themselves reviewing code less because CodeRabbit’s reviews got so good
Working recreation — try pausing the notes or collapsing the transcript.
Pouchette
2025 · Live · macOSReviewed, cited meeting memory for Mac.
A local-first meeting-memory app for macOS. Pouchette records your conversations and turns them into structured, citation-backed notes that never leave your Mac — then lets you ask questions across your whole history or generate follow-ups on demand.
Under the hoodWhy on-device: transcription and diarization run locally (Whisper + CoreML), so recordings never touch a server. The AI layer is swappable — fully offline, local via Ollama, or bring-your-own OpenAI / Anthropic key.
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Chore: Set up initial Claude, skills, hooks, and revise CLAUDE.md
Fix: 10 skills: code-review, pr, write-tests, refactor, new-component, migration-audit, upgrade-audit, fix-bug, plan-feature, module-document — each covering a recurring workflow.
Validation: No runtime code changed — this is entirely .claude/ configuration. (Assumes Claude Code is installed) Pull the branch…
Initial Claude Code configuration for the webapp repo. Establishes a set of on-demand skills (playbooks for recurring workflows), two hooks that fire automatically during Claude sessions, and a significantly updated CLAUDE.md that gives Claude accurate context about the repo’s current stack, conventions, and architecture.
Working recreation — try clicking through the queue.
Upright
2025 · Live · WebSee what matters.
A developer-productivity dashboard that pulls work from GitHub, Slack, Linear, Jira, Calendar and Sentry into one prioritized surface — ranked by urgency and blocker impact, with AI summaries so you always know what to do next.
Under the hoodHow ranking works: every item gets an urgency score from deadline pressure, blocker impact and review state, and Sentry issues are correlated back to the PR that likely caused them. Per-user RLS in Supabase; OAuth tokens AES-256 encrypted at rest.
Today
Help me right nowLeave one trace of today
One real thing is enough. Details can come later.
Logged today · 1
Morning walk before opening the laptop
Working recreation — try logging a trace.
Dailyn
2026 · Open sourceNotice the shape of your day.
A self-hosted Expo app for gentle daily activity logging and AI-assisted reflection. No streaks, no scores — Dailyn helps you notice what felt meaningful, restorative or draining, then turns those signals into daily and weekly reads. Open source and self-hosted by design: your data, your Supabase, your keys.
- Low-friction capture — one real trace of the day is enough
- Reflection framed around patterns, not performance reviews
- Privacy-aware AI: model keys live in Supabase Edge Functions, never in the client
Under the hoodWhy self-hosted: AI calls run through Supabase Edge Functions, so model keys never ship in the mobile client. You bring your own Supabase project and OpenAI key — the maintainer never sees your data.
The session, made visible
The muscle map is the fatigue model.
Logged sets resolve into a clear front-and-back summary instead of another abstract score.

Actual Flow simulator captures — switch between the plan, load map, Coach, and history.
Flow
2026 · Open source · iOSTraining that adapts while you do.
A local-first adaptive gym app that builds a useful workout from the goal, training history, and equipment a person has today — then makes the session's load visible as they train.
Under the hoodThe decision engine is pure TypeScript and testable without React Native. The app layer is deliberately thin: Expo Router, Zustand session state, and SQLite persistence make the live workout feel immediate while the prescription logic stays inspectable.
RasterActual Shapeform sample, trace stats, and export model — compare the raster with the editable vector structure.
Shapeform
2026 · Open source · Local-firstRaster in, editable SVG out.
A local-first raster-to-SVG studio that turns PNGs, JPEGs, and screenshots into structured vector artwork: real stroke paths, fitted gradients, coherent color groups, and export-ready SVG instead of anonymous filled slivers.
Under the hoodThe engine keeps planar regions watertight while fitting curves, strokes, and gradients. The React studio makes that structure inspectable, editable, and exportable as SVG, React, CSS, PNG, PDF, or an icon pack.
Get in touch
Let’s build something.
ozansozuoz@gmail.comPS — want to see what a sprint with me actually looks like? Run one.
Senior Frontend Engineer · New York, NY
I build interfaces a million people use.
I’m a senior frontend engineer. Six years building React, React Native & Next.js at scale — and, on the side, products of my own.
Impact — at work
1M+
users on the platform I lead frontend for at TeamBuildr.
$3.5M+
revenue driven as lead frontend at Two Maids.
6+
years shipping production React across web & mobile.
Where I’ve worked
TeamBuildr
NowSenior Frontend Developer
Shipped AI-powered workout generation — a coach types a sentence, the platform returns a structured training plan.
I own the React & React Native architecture serving 1M+ athletes, and built the analytics and reporting experiences around it.
Two Maids
’20—’23Frontend Developer
Built the customer tipping platform end to end — $3.5M+ a year across 150+ franchise locations, on a three-engineer team.
Globme
’20Frontend intern — Vue & GraphQL.
On the side
Products of my own.

Pouchette
2025 · Live · macOSReviewed, cited meeting memory for Mac.
A local-first meeting-memory app for macOS. Pouchette records your conversations and turns them into structured, citation-backed notes that never leave your Mac — then lets you ask questions across your whole history or generate follow-ups on demand.
Under the hoodWhy on-device: transcription and diarization run locally (Whisper + CoreML), so recordings never touch a server. The AI layer is swappable — fully offline, local via Ollama, or bring-your-own OpenAI / Anthropic key.

Upright
2025 · Live · WebSee what matters.
A developer-productivity dashboard that pulls work from GitHub, Slack, Linear, Jira, Calendar and Sentry into one prioritized surface — ranked by urgency and blocker impact, with AI summaries so you always know what to do next.
Under the hoodHow ranking works: every item gets an urgency score from deadline pressure, blocker impact and review state, and Sentry issues are correlated back to the PR that likely caused them. Per-user RLS in Supabase; OAuth tokens AES-256 encrypted at rest.

Dailyn
2026 · Open sourceNotice the shape of your day.
A self-hosted Expo app for gentle daily activity logging and AI-assisted reflection. No streaks, no scores — Dailyn helps you notice what felt meaningful, restorative or draining, then turns those signals into daily and weekly reads. Open source and self-hosted by design: your data, your Supabase, your keys.
Under the hoodWhy self-hosted: AI calls run through Supabase Edge Functions, so model keys never ship in the mobile client. You bring your own Supabase project and OpenAI key — the maintainer never sees your data.

Flow
2026 · Open source · iOSTraining that adapts while you do.
A local-first adaptive gym app that builds a useful workout from the goal, training history, and equipment a person has today — then makes the session's load visible as they train.
Under the hoodThe decision engine is pure TypeScript and testable without React Native. The app layer is deliberately thin: Expo Router, Zustand session state, and SQLite persistence make the live workout feel immediate while the prescription logic stays inspectable.
RasterShapeform
2026 · Open source · Local-firstRaster in, editable SVG out.
A local-first raster-to-SVG studio that turns PNGs, JPEGs, and screenshots into structured vector artwork: real stroke paths, fitted gradients, coherent color groups, and export-ready SVG instead of anonymous filled slivers.
Under the hoodThe engine keeps planar regions watertight while fitting curves, strokes, and gradients. The React studio makes that structure inspectable, editable, and exportable as SVG, React, CSS, PNG, PDF, or an icon pack.
Get in touch
Let’s build something.
ozansozuoz@gmail.comPS — want to see what a sprint with me actually looks like? Run one.