Curriculum vitae

Owais Korejo

Dublin, Ireland

Education

Computer Science & Business

2025 – present

Trinity College Dublin

Leaving Certificate

2023 – 2025

Institute of Education, Dublin · 613 points — 5 H1s and 2 H2s

Experience

Founder — Grooves

Jun 2025 – present

  • Built a music-reviewing app (Letterboxd for music) from scratch with React Native & Postgres; launched on the App Store in Feb 2025 after 7 months of solo development
  • Grew to 30K+ users, 75K social media followers, and 200 million social media views; artists including SZA, Pusha T, and Kali Uchis have engaged with the app
  • Handled all engineering, product, design, and marketing end-to-end

Founder — Album Posters Store

Jun 2023 – Jun 2025

  • Ran a music poster e-commerce store from age 15; designed all products and handled fulfilment, customer service, and logistics
  • Generated $110,000 in total revenue, peaking at $15,000/month during the Christmas season
  • Grew to 21,000 organic followers across Instagram and TikTok with zero paid ads

Software Engineer Intern — Integration Xperts

Summer 2024

  • Contributed to real-world software projects and gained hands-on industry experience over 3 weeks

Projects & Awards

Rethrift

2026 · 2× Hackathon Winner

Platform that finds the carbon cost of any clothing item and surfaces cheaper, more sustainable alternatives from local thrift shops. Built with React & Vite.

All Ireland Programming Olympiad (AIPO)

2022

Top 10 National Finalist

The LC Tutors

2025 · Freelance

Designed and built the full website for an Irish Leaving Cert & Junior Cert tutoring service — homepage, course pages, and booking flow.

Skills

Languages JavaScript / TypeScript, Python, C++, HTML & CSS, SQL
Frameworks React Native (Expo), React, Astro, Vite, Node.js
Tools Postgres, Git, Figma, Vercel
Other Organic marketing, product design, e-commerce, content strategy