Maxwell Young

Silk is a platform for blogging, private archives, and multimedia moodboards. Led its React Native app from initial build through launch and now lead ongoing delivery.

• Built the initial mobile foundation and turned early product direction into production architecture, interface systems, and media-heavy flows.
• Own performance, accessibility, and release reliability across iOS and Android, using regression coverage and real-device checks to validate changes.

Design and build research applications end to end, from the user experience through to implementation, including Rx-Opt and MRB-QoL 2.0.

• Own UX and interface design, application architecture, frontend and backend implementation, and testing in collaboration with researchers.
• Build clinician assessment and review workflows, patient questionnaires, and researcher dashboards. Validate data and keep source provenance visible within the applications.

Independent product and client studio for mobile apps, web products, and CMS-backed portfolio work.

• Take independent mobile and web products from interaction design through implementation, release, and iteration.
• Delivered client sites with Next.js and Sanity for Ch'lita Collins (Fashion Editor-at-Large at i-D) and artist Dayle Palfreyman, plus Shopify performance and layout stability work for Goodness Gracious.

Mobile research tooling for sleep-session analysis and review.

• Built a React Native and Expo app for session review, questionnaires, and sleep-stage visualization.
• Integrated mobile, backend, and model-inference workflows for research use.

Internal analytics dashboard work for Spark's data intelligence team.

• Helped replace Power BI workflows with a React and Next.js dashboard.
• Built interface patterns and design system components for the team.