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About

Designer who codes.
Engineer who cares.

A product designer and front-end engineer with 8 years of experience turning fuzzy ideas into polished, shippable interfaces. I care about craft, clarity, and the details users feel but never notice.

The longer story

I've led design systems at fast-growing startups, shipped consumer apps used by millions, and mentored junior designers into confident product thinkers. My favorite problems are the messy, ambiguous ones where good design quietly makes everything click.

When I'm not pushing pixels, you'll find me bouldering, brewing pour-over coffee, or sketching type in the margins of a notebook.

Location

San Francisco, CA

Skills & tools

Product Design

FigmaDesign SystemsPrototypingUX ResearchWireframing

Engineering

ReactTypeScriptNext.jsTailwind CSSNode.js

Craft

Motion DesignTypographyAccessibilityBrand Identity

Experience

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2022 — Present

Lead Product Designer · Lumen

Own the end-to-end design of a B2B analytics platform. Built the design system from scratch, cutting design-to-ship time by 40%.

2019 — 2022

Senior Product Designer · Driftwood

Shipped the flagship mobile app to 3M+ users. Led research, IA, and a full redesign that lifted retention 18%.

2017 — 2019

Product Designer · Northwind Studio

Designed and front-end-built marketing sites and product UIs for a portfolio of early-stage clients.

2016 — 2017

Design Intern · Beacon Labs

Cut my teeth on real product work — wireframes, usability tests, and my first shipped feature.

Education

2012 — 2016

B.F.A. Interaction Design

California College of the Arts

Graduated with distinction. Senior thesis: Designing for Peripheral Attention.

2020

Human-Computer Interaction (online)

Stanford University

Coursera certificate — Methods, tools, and frameworks for user-centred design.

Certifications

  • 2023

    Certified UX Professional (CUXP)

    Nielsen Norman Group

  • 2021

    AWS Cloud Practitioner

    Amazon Web Services