👋🏼 I'm Carter Cote, a Fil-American software engineer + designer. Currently studying HCI @ Stanford.

My journey in software started at age 12 with designing video game assets and making videos about it on YouTube. That led to over 4 million downloads of my work and 1.3 million views of my videos.

This hobby kindled a deeper passion for using design to impact others through web apps. Naturally, I gained curiosity in how to build the software behind websites, not just design it.

At 18, I designed and built an emergency supply delivery app during the peak of COVID-19, which delivered over $50,000 worth of urgent supplies to over 20,000 people.

At 19, I built a career pathway exploration platform for high school students in an effort to close information gaps associated with discovering and pursuing careers.

At 21, I worked on Musicfy, an AI-voice generation platform with over 1M users; Crayo, an AI short-form content generation platform with over 280,000 users, with over 50,000 users in the first month; and SellRaze, a mobile app that uses AI to autofill listings for online selling.

I also started a nonprofit called Startup Exchange, which enables college students to learn how to build side projects and grow them into startups. Over 7,000 students at over 40 universities have attended a Startup Exchange event since Fall 2022.

Today, I am a swiss-army knife that can understand end-users, and design, build, and scale end-solutions. I can code-switch as the designer, the software engineer, or growth hacker.