Victor Spuza

Product design · software · growth

What makes it easier to do what we set out to do?

I design and build software, then watch how people use it. I’m curious about what helps someone get started, what makes them hesitate, and what keeps them coming back.

Founding Technical GTM at Favente.

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Founding Technical GTM at Favente

Victor Spuza

I study psychology and economics at Northeastern and build software around how people actually use it.

At Favente, I designed creator onboarding and reporting. I also built Steplight, a planning app that starts with a simple checklist and helps you decide what to do next.

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Product Design

Founding Technical GTM · Favente

AI & Well-Being Research

Northeastern University

Varsity Water Polo Captain

Glenbrook South

Steplight on desktop: the Checklist panel with today's assignments and two typed items, beside a painted mountain at dusk with a dotted route to the summit. Synthetic data.

Steplight

Designer & builder (solo)

I designed and built Steplight on my own. It turns a day’s obligations into small steps you can start, times the work, and closes the day with an honest result.

Open case: Steplight

Experience

Roles, with skills alongside

  1. Designer & builder (solo)Oct 2026 – Present

    Steplight (working name) · student planning app, beta

    • Designed and built it solo with AI-assisted coding tools, from user flow to working beta.
    • Students add assignments to a checklist, get a clear next step for each, start a focus session, and see a mountain scene change as they finish tasks.
    Case: Steplight

  2. Founding Technical GTMJun 2026 – Present

    Favente · Remote

    • Designed and shipped creator onboarding, guided content creation, and performance reporting flows as a founding team member; all now live.
    • Ran click-by-click usability audits to cut extra steps; redesigned navigation, consistency, and mobile layouts.
    • Wrote an implementation brief per change; tested every build for function, layout, and usability pre-release.
    Case: Favente

  3. Undergraduate Research Assistant (AI & Human Behavior)Nov 2026 – Present

    Northeastern University · with Prof. Xiangyun Tang

    • Support an ongoing human-subjects study testing how the certainty of AI responses shapes people’s interpretations of ambiguous romantic-relationship scenarios.

  4. Marketing Strategist InternAug 2025 – Mar 2026

    LoopLess · Chicago area (hybrid)

    • Created daily short-form videos and copy for a screen-time app.
    • Used post analytics and audience response to test and adjust hooks and pacing across videos.
    • Promoted from Junior Marketing Strategist, Oct 2025.
    Case: Marketing: LoopLess & FrogMath

  5. InternJul 2025

    Ministry of Justice of Romania · Bucharest

    • Reviewed administrative-law case briefs with a ministry director; observed internal meetings on legal reform.

  6. Varsity Captain2025 – 2026

    Glenbrook South Water Polo

    • Varsity water polo captain and three-year starter at Glenbrook South High School.

Additional

  • Founder & Lead, Campus WHOOP Club, Northeastern Oakland · Sep 2026 – Present · WHOOP Affiliate · Nov 2026 – Present

    Founded and grow a fitness-focused campus community, documenting strength training, recovery, and performance experiments.

  • NSLC International Business & Finance Conference · University of Oxford, Jul 2025

    Business pitch, first place (best business proposal): built the financial analysis and contributed creative elements for a seven-person team; judged by Oxford faculty.