I figure out what to build, and why.

I studied computer science, but the questions that stuck with me were about the person on the other end of the screen: what they need, what's in their way, and what's worth building first. That's the work I do now. I get close to users, turn what I hear into clear priorities, and stay with it until it ships.

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Portrait of Amman Chuhan

Hi, I'm Amman.

50+

advisors interviewed across five cities

20+

live episodes shipped, leading 100+ students

5

languages, from native English to basic Japanese

About me

Global perspective

Born in New York, raised in Japan.

I’m Pakistani American, grew up across four countries, and speak five languages. Starting over that often made me quick to read a room and quick to adjust, and taught me that what feels obvious to one group of users can be invisible to another.

More about me
Illustrated world map of my route: New York, Lahore, Japan, Melbourne, Los Angeles and Boca Raton, Florida

Case studies

Problems I've owned

The users, the calls I made, the trade-offs, and what I'd do next.

Featured · SHOOK Research · Forbes advisor rankings

Building the advisor experience around advisors’ time

A platform rebuild with an outside partner, a cancelled launch event, and a year spent advocating for the people who actually fill in the survey.

5 cities

of in-person advisor discovery

50+

advisors I sat down with

60k

emails of advisor feedback ranked by theme

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SHOOK Research · Forbes advisor rankings

A store only some people are allowed to buy from

Ranked advisors buy plaques and logo licensing. The store was open to everyone, and orders were logged manually.

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SHOOK Research · Internal tool

Taking the busywork out of lunch

A weekly office ritual ran on manual follow-ups. I automated everything except the one step people wanted to keep.

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Trojan Vision · USC student television

Shipping live TV with a team I had no authority over

A live gameshow, an all-student crew, and a hard deadline that never moved.

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USC capstone · visionOS

Designing learning for a spatial interface

Why learning Rubik’s cube algorithms is a spatial problem, and what we cut to deliver it in a semester.

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Coinpresso · Software engineering internship

Taking the wait out of identity checks

Crypto exchanges are required to verify a buyer’s identity before they can sell to them. When that check waits on a person, the buyer’s interest doesn’t wait with it. I built the pipeline that made the check automatic.

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Product thinking

Teardowns & product bets

Teardowns of products I use and specs for ones I’m building: pick a user, rank the pain, phase the bets, and define what would prove me wrong.

Experience

Where I've done the work

  1. Oct 2025 – Present

    Systems & Data Analyst

    SHOOK Research · Boca Raton, FL

    Product lead for the advisor experience on a platform rebuild with an outside partner. Ran discovery, turned a support inbox into a ranked roadmap, and shifted strategy toward friction reduction when the launch event was cancelled.

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  2. Aug 2022 – May 2025

    Head Project Manager (Showrunner)

    Trojan Vision · Los Angeles, CA

    Shipped a live gameshow under TV producer JD Roth, leading 100+ students across creative, technical and business teams. Led creative direction and delivery without authority over the students, secured sponsors, and ran team workshops.

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  3. May 2023 – Aug 2023

    Software Engineer Intern

    Coinpresso · Auckland, NZ (Remote)

    Spotted that manual identity review was slowing a client’s KYC onboarding, and built a serverless AWS pipeline to automate facial verification with status notifications. Presented KPIs in biweekly client meetings.

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  4. Jun 2022 – Aug 2022

    Content Insights Data Intern

    MarketCast · Los Angeles, CA

    Turned audience and viewership research into clear stories for major entertainment clients, explaining why people watched, not just how many.

  5. Graduated 2025

    B.S. Computer Science

    University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA

    Viterbi School of Engineering. Software engineering, databases, AI, algorithms.

I don’t do it all by myself.

Who’s building anything alone anymore?

I’m learning to run a small crew of AI agents. They research, prototype and poke holes in my thinking. I make the calls.

Meet the team
  • Amman Chuhan
  • Mae Stroh
  • Anita Quote
  • Wyatt Frame
  • Stan Deviation
  • Devin Advocate

Playground

I still build things

Python, TypeScript, SQL, Swift, AWS and AI tooling. Writing code makes me a better partner to the engineers I work with.

Claude plugin for my team

A shared Claude plugin with skills for our repeat chores, like turning due-diligence trip receipts into an expense report. Teammates get the shortcut without having to learn prompting.

Serverless KYC pipeline

Built on AWS to take a manual identity review out of a client’s onboarding: an ID upload triggers Lambda, Rekognition runs facial analysis, and results land in DynamoDB, with status notifications and an endpoint to check where a verification stands.

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Automations for the busywork

An order webhook that logged 5,000+ store orders, and a weekly lunch-ordering system that hands organizers a finished order without anyone chasing replies.

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Migration with a safety net

Moved team folders to SharePoint and checked every file against its source. That surfaced a silent bug where the tool deleted files it had just uploaded, caught by verifying rather than by someone missing a file months later.

Penciled

In development

An AI calendar for Apple Pencil. Research suggests writing by hand helps you remember, so you shouldn’t have to choose between paper that never syncs and a digital calendar you forget. Write it down; Penciled turns it into real events.

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SnitchDog

TestFlight soon

An AI coach for your weight goal. Weigh in with a photo, check in at the gym, and if you go quiet, Snitch tells the people you respect. No money, no food logging.

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C++ Game Collection

Mario Kart, Star Fox and more, built from scratch in C++/SDL2 and compiled to run in your browser.

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Contact

Let's talk product.

If you've got an opportunity in mind, or just want to argue about a product decision, I'd love to hear from you.

ammanilyas100@gmail.com
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Illustration of Amman shrugging with a smile