We're a group of highly-motivated software engineers, project managers, and creatives developing open-source web applications. Together in 2020 we built Exploding Chickens — a beautiful, online alternative to the Exploding Kittens card game with 1,300+ games played to date. Since then our team has expanded and taken on even more challenges, from competing in hackathons to creating resilient fullstack web applications.

Many of our hackathons and early projects (Exploding Chickens included) served as fruitful learning experiences on the dos and don'ts of application software engineering. We've come away from those experiences with many lessons learned, and are applying them head on to Shafa — our new flagship wardrobe logging, composition, and organization app.

Shafa packs a punch in terms of software engineering best practices. We're strictly following an Agile project management strategy (with a dedicated project manager), doing real code reviews, implementing crazy CI/CD pipelines, using a cutting-edge serverless web stack, and so much more. Check out what we're doing with Shafa by skimming the README, issues, and pull requests in the repo below.

• Radison Akerman, Organization Lead
  • Shafa v1: Project Owner, Fullstack Lead
  • Gather (Sparkhacks '24): Fullstack Lead
  • Office Hourly (Wildhacks '23): Frontend & Devops Lead, Backend Core
  • Exploding Chickens v1, v2: Project Owner, Fullstack Lead
• Michelle Zhou, Project Management Lead
  • Shafa v1: Project Manager
• Vincent Do
  • Shafa v1: Backend
  • Exploding Chickens v1, v2: Backend
• Sengdao Inthavong
  • Office Hourly (Wildhacks '23): Backend, Presentation Lead
  • Exploding Chickens v2: Graphics Lead, Backend
  • Exploding Chickens v1: Graphics Lead, Frontend, Backend
• Richard Yang
  • Office Hourly (Wildhacks '23): Backend
  • Exploding Chickens v1, v2: Backend
• Leeza Andryushchenko
  • Office Hourly (Wildhacks '23): Backend Core
  • Exploding Chickens v2: Backend
• Dylen Greenenwald
  • Gather (Sparkhacks '24): Backend, Presentation Core
• Seyfal Sultanov
  • Gather (Sparkhacks '24): Backend, AI, Presentation Core

Owner: key stakeholder of project, driving force to render project completion.
Lead: accountable project area leader, made a majority if not all architecture and implementation decisions.
Core: critical to their project area, would not be able to implement project area tasks without them.