Chris Zhang
CHRIS ZHANG

Time is currency.

Attention is where you spend it.

Finds the friction that wastes people's time — and ships the fix.

Builder · systems × product Audit · finance · AI background
The work — 身 body / 心 mind / & the bench
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身 Body · strength & conditioning
Friction → Training blind in a spreadsheet
Train with Intention
Beta
↗ open the app
PWA · add to home screen · works offline
身 · Body · every rep on purpose
See it. Understand it.
You can move a ton a week
and not move an inch.
  • See it · tonnage trends + all-time muscle-load heatmap · "beat last time".
  • Understand it · the reason for each movement is one tap away — learn the method, not just the orders.
  • Offline-first PWA · installs to the home screen, works on the gym floor with no signal.
Open the app ↗
Coaching method: Austin Johansen (BCRPA PT), used with consent.
01 / 06 · Intention
Friction → AI cost opacity
DevValue
Live F flip for how + results
↗ install
DevValue
Cost = (your focus time × your hourly rate) + (AI agent token cost). DevValue surfaces both inside VS Code, broken down per branch, so the bill is visible before it shows up.
PTA flow
Idle-timeout that recognizes thinking time, not just typing
Token sniff
Parses Claude Code logs for real compute cost
Branch bind
Every cost tagged to a git branch
Status bar
Live time · branch · cost in your editor frame
Stack
TypeScript · VS Code API · local SQLite
Press F again to flip back
02 / 06 · DevValue
Friction → Manual airport charging schedules
Smart Airport
walkthrough video
Capstone F flip for how
Vancouver Airport Authority · MS Capstone
eGSE charging optimization
Raw flight / fleet / charger / spatial data → preprocess + feature engineering → Transformer demand forecasts → Gymnasium environment + PPO policies (Stable-Baselines3) for AC and non-AC fleets. DVC for artifacts, MLflow for experiments, FastAPI + Uvicorn for inference — same stack as the Space below.
Live demo (interactive)
Open Hugging Face Space ↗
90%
Gate coverage
9.2%
vs. baseline
GitHub ↗ HF Space ↗ LinkedIn ↗
03 / 06 · Smart Airport
Friction → Canadian payroll complexity
Cleanroll
Beta F flip for how + demo
Cleanroll · Beta · Render
Payroll, as one run
The one-bookkeeper company spends a full morning bouncing between six windows just to pay people. Cleanroll collapses that into one guided flow — setup, run, signed stub, CRA-ready.
  • CPP / EI / QPP · federal & provincial tax
  • Signed pay stubs · CRA-ready exports
  • Designed for one-bookkeeper Canadian SMBs
  • Stack: FastAPI · Postgres · Render · React
Try the app ↗
Onboarding first Canadian small businesses
04 / 06 · Cleanroll
Friction → Foreign-menu decision anxiety
Nod
TestFlight F flip for how + prototype
Nod · TestFlight · iOS mockup
Ambrosia · manager-worker agents
Decide in 30 seconds.
Point the camera at a menu in any language. The Eye digitises it, the Brain translates culturally — not literally — and a Gatekeeper critic blocks anything that touches your allergies, even when the Brain suggested it.
  • Eye + Brain + Gatekeeper · OCR capture, ranking, and allergy veto in one loop.
  • Agent Chat mode · you steer the conversation while agents propose and self-check.
  • Platform target · iOS 26.1 · SwiftUI · Liquid Glass (TestFlight may trail roadmap).
Demo mode · interactive prototype
Grand Feast → Table mode: merges constraints across guests and returns 3 dishes with overlap-safe substitutions.
TestFlight · invite on request
On-card taps are a guided mockup, not the production app binary.
05 / 06 · Nod
心 Mind · thinking, kept yours
Question → Thinking alongside machines
CyberTao
Live
CyberTao
CyberTao, live: a SYSTEM CRITICAL warning over the word OVERLOAD — infinite data, finite bandwidth — beside 虛, empty = utility.
Where I think out loud about working alongside machines — and what stays worth doing yourself.
Form
Live site · essays + experiments
Asks
What remains uniquely yours?
Stack
Static site · Netlify
Open CyberTao ↗
01 / 06

Interests

Personal Tool
FlashSlot

ICBC road-test watcher that scans openings and sends alerts as soon as a slot appears in my target window.

Python · Playwright · Pushover
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FlashSlot · Details
  • Polls calendar windows and dedupes stale alerts.
  • Personal agent to remove repetitive booking refresh loops.
  • Runs privately on my own infra.
Personal System
FFP

Single-tenant loyalty tracker across Aeroplan, Marriott, Hilton, IHG, and Amex MR with expiry/devaluation reminders.

FastAPI · Postgres · cron
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FFP · Details
  • Tracks loyalty balances in one quiet dashboard.
  • Alerts on expiry, transfer-bonus windows, and devaluation risk.
  • Single-tenant by design.
Movement · Column
Mettle

Cycling, hiking, the gym — and the column where I write about movement as thinking, and where human effort and machine compute rhyme.

Cadence · trails · iron
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Mettle · Details
  • Throughput, cooling, throttling — the body has a compute budget too.
  • Where ideas actually resolve: mid-ride, mid-trail, mid-set.
  • Published as a column on Substack.

Background

Currently
Technology Risk — KPMG (Vancouver)
MS Computer Science — Northeastern, 2026
Previously
Audit & Assurance — Deloitte
Finance Controller — Nanjing Vanke
Interests
Human-AI decision workflows
Product strategy + delivery systems
Also
Career Peer Advisor @ CDEL
MS Student Advisory Board

Developing

Writing

All essays & subscribe on Substack ↗

You can't buy back
the hours you've spent. So make the rest
a good stretch.

Contact

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