A web app that turns intimidating government notices into plain language and a clear next step. Built with three teammates in 36 hours.
Electrical Engineering · McGill University
Skyler Xiao
I build things that sit between software and hardware — web apps, firmware, and small tools that make tedious work disappear.
I'm a second-year Electrical Engineering student who spends most of his time somewhere between a breadboard and a text editor.
I like problems where the answer has to actually work — where a thing either lights up or it doesn't. Most of what I build starts as a small annoyance I wanted to remove.
Off the clock I play varsity badminton, solve cubes faster than is strictly reasonable, and take a camera most places I go.
Experience — tap an entry for detail
Backend AI Engineering Intern
FlyRankAI
July — August 2026
- TODO: add bullets.
Cybersecurity Intern
CyberWolfe
May — August 2026
- TODO: add bullets.
Coach
Lions Badminton
May — June 2026
- TODO: add bullets.
Specialised Sports Instructor
Glen Abbey Community Centre
March 2023 — June 2025
- Designed and ran a weekly youth badminton program of 200+ members.
- Coached players aged 4 to 65, across every level from first racket to competitive.
- Rebuilt attendance and player tracking in Excel, so it stopped being done by hand.
Selected projects — 4 of 6
A sublease marketplace with map-based discovery, auth, and listing management — for students who move twice a year.
An ESP-32 alarm clock — simulated in Wokwi, then soldered. Firmware, enclosure, and a snooze button that actually feels good to press.
A Chrome extension that screenshots scrolling pages and converts LaTeX into readable Unicode — including the malformed kind.
Awards
2026
2nd place · STEMINATE Hacks (250+ Participants)
Built Waive, a privacy-first legal document intelligence engine that uses local AI to transform complex legal notices into actionable, ready-to-file responses in under 60 seconds.
Elsewhere — a different perspective
