Hayden Kong

Hayden Kong is a 15-year-old digital designer & developer based in Australia. His work centres on building useful products that pair thoughtful design, seamless user experience and frontier technology.

I founded PixelVerse Digital, a design, development and AI agency working with brands worldwide, and Perspective Global, where we build new products and platforms, including award-winning apps Nibbl and HelloAI.

My clients include Trueblood Band, a Mercury/UMG artist, and I develop web and Shopify experiences at TITOL™, the world's largest independent artist merchandise and brand company.

I was named one of Australia's top 50 teen entrepreneurs by The Advertiser.

Ventures

Projects

Experience

  • Developing websites and Shopify stores for TITOL™ (Time Is The Only Luxury) - the world's leading independent artist brand and merchandise company, serving a high-profile roster of globally recognised artists.

  • creating digital experiences with a different perspective

  • Robot operator(#9976) and team member for Team Koalafied (#6996). Competing in the FIRST Robotics Competition.

  • Part of the support team for High Seas, helping out and moderating a community of 20,000+ teen developers in Hack Club's open-source network.

  • Hack Club is a network of 20,000+ teen coders, backed by people and companies like Elon Musk, Framework, GitHub, and Flipper Zero. I volunteered on Arcade as an hour reviewer and served on both the support and fraud teams.

  • Designed, built, and programmed autonomous LEGO robots to complete a set of missions.

Awards

  • Nibbl App won 1st Place at the Unley Fish Tank Entrepreneurship Competition, Launching on the App Store in August 2026 globally.

  • Awarded 1st Place in South Australia and 1st Place Nationally for building an accessible, affordable platform providing frictionless access to cutting-edge frontier AI technologies.

  • Awarded 2nd Place in South Australia after transforming Nibbl from an abstract idea into a fully functional public beta, directly addressing localized food waste.

  • Certified to GitHub Foundations, validating comprehensive knowledge in version control, branch management, CI/CD, and collaborative software development workflows.

  • Qualified for the FIRST World Championships after placing 3rd at the Southern Cross Competition. We ranked 18th out of 75 in a highly competitive division, the highest placement for an Australian team at Worlds.

  • Competed extensively at the Melbourne Robotics Tournament, serving as the Robot Operator for the off-season drive team, UnKoalafied (#9976).

  • Awarded 2nd Place in South Australia for developing educational and practical AI platforms aimed at demystifying advanced machine learning for the general public.

  • Awarded 1st Place in South Australia and Highly Commended Nationally for an innovative application concept directly addressing modern grocery and food waste challenges.

  • Awarded 1st Place in South Australia and 2nd Place Nationally for designing the foundational prototype and early architectural concepts of the SmartFoods platform.