Why
Bridge between student devs and real-world software needs.
Pro-bono builds for community orgs that can't afford dev shops.
Tethos
Nonprofit Dev Studio
Federally incorporated student-run dev studio. Founded 2024 at Western, expanded to UBC. tethos.ca
Context
Backing
Morissette Institute of Entrepreneurship at Ivey.
Chapters
Western (founding, 2024).
UBC (2025).
Build
Tethos Platform
2025 — Present
Solo-built full-stack platform serving 400+ members.
50+ API routes. Hiring pipeline with auto-scoring and applicant flagging.
Email automation, bounty board, virtual currency shop, quest/achievement system, leaderboard, event RSVP.
React Three Fiber dashboard.
FBM noise terrain baked to a 257×257 height grid, 7-keyframe day/night lighting.
2D sprite characters on 3D billboards. LLM-backed NPCs with persistent memory.
Personality quiz mapped to RPG classes. 6-tier rank progression.
Standalone FastAPI service indexing Google Drive + Notion into pgvector.
OpenAI text-embedding-3-small, 1536-dim.
Two-signal delta re-indexing, top-6 similarity search, cited responses.
Four LLM query modes.
Auth & Infra
Supabase SSR auth with PostgreSQL RLS policies. Zod API validation.
CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions, Docker, GHCR. Game server on VPS.
Client Work
20+ pro-bono projects shipped.
SettleIn for International Rescue Committee — mobile app serving refugees.
World Vision — agentic AI discovery pipeline.
London Children's Museum — interactive space glove exhibit (225,000+ annual visitors).
Impact
Members
100+ devs across 2 chapters.
Community reach
3,000+.
Platform users
400+.
Projects shipped
20+.
Client value
$300k+ in delivered work.
Stack
Frontend
Next.js 16, React Three Fiber, Tailwind CSS.
Backend
FastAPI, Supabase, PostgreSQL, pgvector.
Infra
GCP Cloud Run, Docker, GitHub Actions, Hetzner, GHCR.
AI
OpenAI text-embedding-3-small. LangChain.