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Technical Officer, Projects at UniMelb’s student startup programme.
Bruno Jaamaa has been Technical Officer, Projects at Startup Link, the University of Melbourne’s student-run startup programme, since February 2026. On its engagement with a healthcare startup he worked with a team of six students, which he led informally; teammates owned and presented their own sections.
The startup connects locum doctors to hospitals directly, without an agency. It is not named on this site. The work was unpaid, and he worked directly with both co-founders and their engineering lead.
Posting one shift: five screens for six required fields, one screen in the redesign
BEFORE · THE REVIEW
AFTER · REDESIGN PROTOTYPE
About a week after the team’s presentation, the founder published a new brand system based on the team’s recommendation and relaunched the company’s site.
Two follow-on projects came out of it. Jaamaa designed onboarding dashboards for eight types of facility, which were proposed to the company. Then, leading a student engineering team, he upgraded the company’s admin portal and CRM into a single system and built the version currently in use: lead intake and locum doctor onboarding are automated, and a connector layer lets it plug into the other applications they already run.
SPECIFICATIONS
| ROLE | TECHNICAL OFFICER |
|---|---|
| DATE | Feb 2026 to present |
| TYPE | ONGOING ROLE |
| STATUS | ONGOING |
| STACK | project leadership · scoping · ux review · ui redesign · design systems · admin portal · crm · lead automation +4 more |
| LINKS | none public |
| COURSE / TEAM | Startup Link, University of Melbourne · Technical Officer, Projects · February 2026 to present · a committee role held alongside the final year of his degree |
Startup Link is the University of Melbourne's student-run startup programme.
== WHAT IS THIS ==
Startup Link is the University of Melbourne’s student-run startup programme. Bruno Jaamaa has been its Technical Officer, Projects since February 2026. The role scopes technical and design projects for early-stage founders, staffs them with student teams and delivers them. On the programme’s engagement with a healthcare startup he leads a student engineering team: he upgraded the company’s admin portal and CRM into a single system and built the version currently in use, with lead intake and locum doctor onboarding automated and a connector layer to the other applications they already run.
== </stack and architecture> ==
project leadership · scoping · ux review · ui redesign · design systems · admin portal · crm · lead automation · react · typescript · swiftui · figma
There is no single stack for the role. Each project picks its own, and the first one used React and Tailwind on the web with SwiftUI for the app. What carries between projects is the method.
Findings are tied to a surface, a severity and a fix, so a review can be argued with line by line instead of taken as taste. Colour, type and spacing are declared once as tokens, which settles questions such as which blue before they start. And the recommendation is built far enough to click, because a redesign that runs can be compared with the live product, and a founder can hand it to whoever builds next.
== </key decisions> ==
DECISION 01
Scope to what can be shown, not to what can be promised. A founder's brief is usually three products. The project is the one slice that can be clicked by the end of the window, with the rest written down as labelled stubs.
DECISION 02
Redesign what the company runs on, not only what it sells. The marketing site is the easy half. The operations portal and the CRM screens are where staff spend the day, and they are usually the part nobody has looked at.
DECISION 03
Keep the client unnamed until they say otherwise. The work can be described; the name is theirs to give.
role & context
Startup Link, University of Melbourne · Technical Officer, Projects · February 2026 to present · a committee role held alongside the final year of his degree. Jaamaa scopes projects for early-stage founders, staffs them with student teams and delivers them. On the healthcare engagement he worked with a team of six students, which he led informally; teammates owned and presented their own sections. On the follow-on project he leads a student engineering team and built the admin portal and CRM the company uses today. He oversees branding and UX across the team. By his own account he has also given talks at the weekly meetings about systems he has built. The current client is not named on this site.
== </the story> ==
Startup Link is the University of Melbourne's student-run startup programme. Founders bring a problem and the programme pairs them with student teams. Bruno Jaamaa joined its committee as Technical Officer, Projects in February 2026, during the final year of his degree.
An early-stage founder's brief is usually wider than a student team can deliver in one semester: a website, an app and the internal tools behind them, all at once. The Technical Officer's job is to turn that brief into a scope a team can finish, staff it, and see it delivered.
In the role, Jaamaa scopes projects for early-stage founders, staffs them with student teams and delivers them. He oversees branding and UX across the team. By his own account, he has also given talks at the programme's weekly meetings about systems he has built.
His main engagement in the role began in August 2026, for a healthcare marketplace startup that connects locum doctors with hospitals without an agency. It was unpaid and staffed by a team of six students, which he led informally; teammates owned and presented their own sections of the review. He worked directly with both co-founders and their engineering lead. He reviewed the startup's marketing site, operations portal and iOS app and redesigned them as one system, and he wrote the code of the redesign prototype. The client is not named on this site, and the work has its own entry, Healthcare marketplace redesign.
The role is ongoing. On the follow-on project for the same client he leads a student engineering team. He upgraded the company's admin portal and CRM into a single system and built the version currently in use, including automation for lead intake and locum doctor onboarding, with a connector layer so it can plug into the other applications they already run.
ONGOING