01 Overview

At Pod, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This policy outlines how we handle your data to provide a seamless group trip planning experience. By using the app, you consent to the practices described here.

02 Data Collection & Usage

03 Data Sharing

Your data is private. We do not sell your personal information. Your precise location and trip updates are only shared with users you have explicitly authorized by joining a shared "Trip." We utilize Google Firebase for secure data infrastructure.

04 Data Control & Deletion

You maintain full control over your data. You may delete your account and all associated trip data at any time via the in-app settings menu. Upon deletion, your data is permanently removed from our Firebase production servers.

01 Why I built Pod

My friend group was (and is) genuinely crap at planning things. We'd try to organize something and Elijah would get mad, Jay wouldn't read the chat, Rafe + Luis would be dead asleep, Davis would be halfway across town, and who knows if Ali was even alive. Somehow I was still worse than all of them combined.

The real problem wasn't that they didn't want to come. It was that the plan lived in a wall of text nobody was going to scroll through. So I thought, what if the plan just looked like a plan? Stops in order, times visible, everyone on the same map.

That's Pod. No group chat archaeology. You open the app, you see where everyone is going and when, you RSVP, you show up. That's it.

02 Background

I'm a CS sophomore at the University of Florida. Outside of Pod, I do machine learning research and automation in epidemiology, and work on automation engineering at UF.

Building Pod taught me more in a few months than I expected — Firebase security rules that silently fail at 2am, animated marker bugs that only show up with 4+ users, background location on iOS being its own beast entirely. The kind of stuff you only learn by shipping something real.

03 What I'm looking for

Pod is in beta right now and I'm actively growing it, by the way if you're reading this and want to try it, the signup is on the homepage.

I'm also looking for a summer 2026 SWE internship. The dream is somewhere like Anthropic or Google — places where the range of what you can work on is genuinely wide, where people care deeply about what they're building and why, and where you feel that in the culture. That kind of freedom to build things that matter is what I'm after.

If that sounds like where you work, I'd love to talk.

04 Get in touch

Whether you want to talk about Pod, an internship, or anything else — reach out.