A little more
about me.

I'm Stavan.

Stavan smiling beside a lake and mountains.

I'm a software engineer and a 2026 UBC Okanagan graduate in Honours Computer Science, with a minor in Data Science. I build AI applications and research how they behave when people push them beyond a simple demo.

Outside software, I fly aircraft and paragliders. I'm an FAA private pilot and an APPI P3 paragliding pilot. I also build websites and tools for my family.

A view beyond
the screen.

Outside software, I fly aircraft and paragliders.

FAA
Private pilot
APPI P3
Paragliding pilot
A cockpit view above a cloud layer.

Education and research

UBC Okanagan

2026

B.Sc., Honours in Computer Science.
Minor in Data Science.

My honours work connected the tutoring platform I helped build with the harness I created to test answer leakage. That work led to two first-author computing-education papers.

Read about the research

UC Berkeley

Summer 2024

Summer study in computer security and artificial intelligence, through CS 161 and CS 188.

How I work

I use Cursor, Claude, Codex, and GitHub Copilot throughout development. I define the architecture, give agents focused tasks, review their changes, and test the result. I choose the language and tools around the problem.

On EduAI, I was a secondary technical lead. My responsibilities centered on architectural decisions, pull-request review, daily stand-ups, and meetings with professors and other stakeholders.

See the decisions behind the role

Built for family

Here and Now’s circular breathing timer over an ocean background, during the breathe-in phase.
Here and Now. A screenshot of the breathing interaction.

I also build websites and tools for my family. Here and Now is a website for a mental-health practice, with accessible interactive activities and a Kids companion.

That work includes a breathing interaction and a feeling check-in. The interface gives people something they can use, alongside the information about the practice.

Tools and smaller projects