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[tom-ee] [yen]
(Vision)
Aspiring to become a builder who can build both beautiful physical & digital spaces that inspire people's lives.
(Act)
A passionate explorer with interests and curiosities across multidisciplinary fields, such as art & design, technology, history & economics, urban spaces, and, most importantly, growth & startup.
(Journey)
So far, I studied Architecture from the Architectural Association in London, and had a 2-year experience of building a map-based consumer app startup, and now trying to be an indie-hobbyist developer working on passion projects thanks to the rise of AI agents.
Tommy’s personal 3 core drives
Works
2024 - 2026
Past works
Multimedia
Personal Project
“Questing on building a space that fosters magical connection between online & offline world” - A dream of building meaningful and beautiful spaces have always been the noise inside of my hand. From sketching imaginative floor plans to studying architecture and building software products, this idea has been the biggest goal waiting to be achieved.
CV
Tsz Chim (Tommy) Yen
tommyyenty@outlook.com
Experience
Locarie, Co-founder
2024 - 2026
Building Location-based apps with V1.0 a social marketplace and pivoted to V2.0 a map-based social app.
V1.0 - first time co-founder and product designer working in a 3-person team building a social marketplace (iOS app) for London niche local businesses sharing updates and what’s on all together on a map.
V2.0 - In charge of the design, management, and development, closely working together with our Shenzhen-based tech outsourcing team to deliver our map-based social app.
Education
Architectural Association School of Architecture, BA Architecture
2021 - 2024
Three years of architectural and cross-disciplinary studies.
About me
An interdisciplinary builder with an interest in how to create meaningful products that can inspire and help people’s lives.
Influenced by that thinking, I am most curious and passionate about entrepreneurship and building products. From 0 to 1, each process is a unique problem & challenge to solve that involves a great amount of creativity and personal character from those who are working on the problem. And often, I found that the journey of working on these ventures taught us the most about how to become the best version of ourselves, both professionally and personally.
As someone interested in space, I naturally chose to study architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. It is during these very important years that taught me the most on - how to design? How to build? And a perspective on taste and beauty. However, it also made me realized despite my love for floor plans and stuffs that comes with physical forms. In essence, what I’m really passionate about is building spaces that can influence millions of lives and beyond. The spaces of consumer platforms and products, and the stories of what it takes for these projects to find a foothold in our competitive and dynamic world.
I think the best way to learn design and building things is to stop thinking too much and just get on with the action. For me, it’s 2 years of startup experiences that ended both painfully, but also reinvigorating. And it is these exciting stories and experiences that made me a very optimistic and a little bit of not-so-grounded person.
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Library of Refs
"Good artists copy, great artists steal” - Pablo Picasso.
Before creating something great, it is important to have a pool of knowledge on all the great things created by other humans across all fields. As taste requires perspectives, wondering, and curiosity.
The following are some of the references that I find useful and inspiring.
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