Work

What did this experience teach you?

Dates and titles live on the resume. Technical case studies live on jadexzhao. Here is the question each role asked, and what I am still learning from it.

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Web Developer · Jun 2026 to Jul 2026

How should consumer technology handle people’s data?

Worked on a university project with an industry partner examining how consumer applications collect, store, and protect personal information. Partner-confidential detail stays behind a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

What I’m learning privacy · data systems · responsible technology · working under constraints

Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN)

Business Technologist · May 2024 to Dec 2024

How does a promising AI idea become something an organisation can actually adopt?

Worked across agentic AI and go-to-market (GTM) strategy for public-interest technology ... adoption that can last after the pilot.

What I’m learning AI strategy · GTM · adoption · organisational fit

Serve IT

Website Team Lead · Jan 2024 to present

Can a nonprofit keep using the technology after the student team leaves?

Lead web development for nonprofit partners without in-house engineering support, including accessible WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.1 projects. Joined as a first-year student; later became Website Team Lead. Founded Serve-AI via PIT-UN as a related public-interest track.

What I’m learning software delivery · accessibility · maintainability · stakeholder communication

Technical proof on jadexzhao

Also on the resume

Same instinct, quieter labels.
IUB Undergraduate Education
User Experience Designer · Aug 2025 to Dec 2025
Privacy work into how people meet consumer technology ... collection, storage, and protection of personal data.
Undergraduate Education
Programme Assistant · Aug 2026 to present
Support programming for the Hudson & Holland Scholars Programme (HHSP). A Hudson & Holland Platinum Scholar and first-generation student myself.
FASE MAP
STEM Peer Mentor / MAP Coordinator · Aug 2023 to present
Coordinate the Mentor Apprenticeship Programme (MAP) within Faculty and Staff for Student Excellence (FASE), including as STEM Peer Mentor / MAP Coordinator for first-generation and low-income peer mentors.
Chinese Buffet, Greenfield
Restaurant Kid · May 2017 to Jun 2023
Floor, till, kitchen; then website and social rebuild after COVID-19. The origin story for everything above.

Other rooms

One person. Four audiences. Cross-links only.
This site
Professional narrative and hire story.
zhao-langxi
Essays and research notes. Photos: @zhao.langxi.