Faster and cheaper international payments and financial services for the global worker! Millions in volume and counting. Come join us, we're hiring!

Bridging Silicon Valley with tech startups in emerging markets (cognitylabs.com) Interested in investing in or mentoring change makers in emerging markets? Reach out!

- Creating content for the financially curious (20k+ views): https://www.youtube.com/c/MikaR?sub_confirmation=1- Launched + core team at Odyssey DAO (15k+ community of web3 curious), onboarding next million into web3 (odysseydao.com) - Advising NFT projects on launches and community growth/engagement (msg me to join our community of NFT founders)- Created NFT Playbook (learn how to launch quality NFT projects, with insights from top founders; $20k in profit in 1 week) nft-playbook.xyz- Won $15k & placed in Solana Riptide hackathon Nifty Pay (get discounts and perks based on NFTs in your wallet) niftypayapp.vercel.app- Built NFT community management software, Discobot for VBA (Virtual Basketball Association) NFT project ($6M seed)- Experiment: Magnum Opus (remixable NFTs on Solana) magnum-opus.xyz- Designing: Smooth Pay (customers pay businesses in crypto and fiat easily, without the hassle of bridging and swaps)

Tools for creators to manage their fan communities. (Ask me 1/1 if interested in learnings!) Pre-seed from South Park Commons.

Helping hirers find the right candidates for their roles

Product & growth for a mobile (Android, iOS) super app for the 100M global Philippine market. I was the second product manager.I helped lead and build the following:- Quiz Mo Ko: HQ Trivia for the PH; increased DAUs by 180%- Kumu Beta Launch: grew base by 693% users in first 2 months; Android top #3 social app in 2 months- Redesigned Explore Page: increased livestream audience & content discovery- Kumu Product-Market Fit Pivot: conducted 100+ user tests and user surveys; led to prioritization of “livestreamer” (supply side) for content creation- Group Livestreams: ‘failed’ feature but learned from it!I contributed to improving & executing the following workflows:- Installed data events tracking software (Clevertap) & setup SQL data pulling system; main driver of data insights- Aligned team weekly on northstar metrics via weekly data discussions- Reorganized all team documents; established the need for documentation for overall alignmentIntroduced feedback loops on platform for users to provide contextual feedback (Instabug)- Acted as customer support & sales engineer- Managed remote engineers & designers; kept everyone aligned and in sync through Monday.com- Helped build robust idea validation cycle involving, Invision, Sketch, and user interviews

A 9 session masterclass for aspiring founders who identify as women or non-binary and care about problems of Broadening Access. Part of the inaugural cohort of 15 amazing women!

Selected to be 1 of 8 KPCB Product Fellows http://kpcbfellows.com/meet-the-fellows

Full-stack web development instructor for 80+ students day-to-day.

Ripcord is a robotics digitization company in the Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers portfolio, which solves the problem of lost data in analog files through mass digitization. I was the first product manager owning our internal software platform & SaaS B2B product, Canopy.I have worn multiple hats within the product, engineering, operations, and marketing functions. I helped lead and build the following:- Ripcord Operators Network (RON): owned and led initiative to redesign and build our production software that optimizes flows in our warehouse and tracks the lifecycle of documents. Grew production efficiency by 87%- Canopy Salesforce Integration: collected product requirements from our biggest client, coordinated with Salesforce partners- Canopy 2.0: initiated & led product roadmap meetings, collaborated with engineering, design operations, sales, customer success. Conducted user tests & focus groups with target users.Canopy “AHA” Moment Exploration: conducted user surveys with 2000 records managers, user testing with 20+ records managers & proposed “AHA” moment to focus software towards- Ripcord Wiki: employee database software prototype to help us as we scale the team; validated need to buy software to solve this problemI contributed to improving & executing the following workflows:- Customer support channels on both RON & Canopy- Led market and competitive analysis efforts - Managed 3rd party security compliance across 5 departments; consequently secured 2 major Fortune 100 clients- Organized JIRA backlog & transitioned whole software team into Scrum- Event tracking dashboard and metrics- Tableau dashboard for operations team- Women at Ripcord committee (kickstarted!)- Spearheaded product roadmap meetings to keep all teams aligned- User research testing with records managers; sough contacts through organization channels & created sustained relationships- Built customer advisory board from 0 to 5

Recommended by my Computer Science professor to assist students in the Intro to Programming and Computer Science I classes (using Python as the main language).

Kai Entrepreneurship is a student-run non-profit dedicated to promoting inclusion and diversity in entrepreneurship.

- Organized a semester long for-credit student-led class with 15 students, teaching design thinking principles and methodology- Managed a team of 3 in procuring weekly content and organizing speaker series of 3- Launched 5 design-centered projects with non-profits and local businesses- Developed semester long, weekly curriculum for students; crafted proposals and iterated on feedback from 5 professors, 3 industry professionals and design institutions