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A software studio providing real-world experience to student developers while delivering exceptional products for our clients.
Our Unique Approach
Valyria is a software studio that grew out of a collaboration between Lorenzo Barberis Canonico and Yan Chen, and it has a unique mission: to turn the contract work opportunities that come our way into part-time jobs and real-world experience to college students studying computer science, many of whom Lorenzo has previously coached in Speech & Debate.
Featured Projects
Help One Child Survey
Client: Help One Child • Designer:
Apr 2025 - May 2025
This project creates a tablet-friendly voting platform for Help One Child's fundraising events in partnership with CarePortal.
Roo
Client: Stanford GSB Team (Tom, Madison, Leif) • Designer: Madison Minsk
Jul 2024 - Oct 2024
Roo is a restaurant reservation management system. Diners can make reservations, and restaurants can manage reservations.
Net Project
Client: Net Project • Designer: Marina Wei & Ali Kapadia
Jun 2024 - Oct 2024
The Net Project is a research-informed 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to helping people live meaningful and flourishing lives.
Generosity Bay Area
Client: Generosity Bay Area (GBA) • Designer: Christina Boiles
Apr 2024 - Oct 2024
An anonymous donations post feed on a Squarespace page, to encourage the community to grow in generosity to causes locally and globally. Users can submit posts of their donations by filling in the onsite form. The live feed displays the recipients and amounts of user's donations, but keeps the donors anonymous.
Cedar Grove Carbon Trust
Client: Sam McClure • Designer:
Feb 2024 - Apr 2024
Cedar Grove partners with leading organizations to acquire the best carbon credits at the best prices. Donations fund projects that save crucial natural ecosystems, repair damage, and protect against future harm. Projects must demonstrate real impact, as measured by strict criteria and expert review. The Foundation holds in credits in the Donor's name.
Poverty Pockets
Client: Coalition Alleviating Poverty • Designer: Finny Abraham
Feb 2024 - Present
FantasySCOTUS
Client: Cassandra Labs Foundation • Designer: Shanik Miedreich
Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
A complete redesign of https://fantasyscotus.net/ for the modern world. The Mobile App reworks the research survey to become more like a gamified crowdsourcing mechanism for the outcomes of Supreme Court cases
Pathways for Stanford
Client: Stanford • Designer: Emily Chang
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
This project was designed to help minority and disadvantaged pre-med students connect with mentors, and also to help track Pathways alumni who support students pursuing careers in medicine.
GPSA for Stanford
Client: Stanford • Designer: Emily Chang
Dec 2023 - Feb 2024
I helped a professor improve a scientific Python library used for statistical alignment of biological and spatial samples — such as tissue or skin — either to a reference or to one another, as well as for estimating signal patterns at different points within those samples. My contributions focused on making the library easier to package and distribute on PyPI, ensuring dependencies installed and loaded correctly, and setting up more reliable ongoing dependency maintenance.
Ellis App
Client: Geo Browser • Designer: Yan Chen
Sep 2023 - Jan 2024
Designed to help volunteers at organizations like YWAM to better track and refer unhoused folks to social services in SF. What started as a pro-bono venture has now evolved into a fully funded client project, thanks to Geo Browser's interest in using their blockchain technology for the app's backend.
AI Advocate
Client: Love Never Fails • Designer:
AI Advocate is a production web and mobile application for Love Never Fails that helps survivors, allies, advocates, and community members understand California legislation. The app provides curated bill feeds, bilingual plain-language AI summaries, representative lookup, vote-history context, outreach tools, and privacy-conscious Supabase-backed infrastructure. Built with Expo, React Native, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Edge Functions, translations, and row-level security.
PlanterPlan
Client: PlanterPlan / Passion for Planting • Designer:
PlanterPlan is an ongoing rebuild and modernization of a church-planting project management application. The platform turns a phase-based planning process into structured workflows for project setup, launch timelines, task coordination, team collaboration, reporting, and role-based access. The implementation emphasizes secure Supabase-backed workflows, row-level security, safe schema migration protocols, single-source-of-truth architecture documentation, machine-readable development context, and automated quality gates. Built with React, TypeScript, Supabase, PostgreSQL, Vitest, and Playwright.
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