life
I live in Issaquah, WA, 18 miles from Seattle. You can often find me practicing hot yoga or drinking coffee at a local cafe.
I started designing for the web in 2010 to help my family business. Since then, I've founded and closed a design studio, worked at startups and corporations. I slowly realized that I enjoyed building things more than anything else in this process.
About five years ago, I started learning Swift to build my first app, a sleep calculator to help me wake up refreshed. Then JavaScript, to automate my workflow and prototype ideas faster. When you're working in the same medium as your final product, you discover better solutions. You understand constraints. You ship faster.
Now I write code almost daily, building design systems, Figma plugins, and Mac apps. I'm not trying to become an engineer, but I've found that the line between design and development is exactly where I do my best work.
work
I'm a digital product designer and builder with over 13 years of experience, currently working at Remitly. Here, I work on our design system, develop tools for the team, and continuously improve the design process.
personal projects
I enjoy learning new tools and experimenting with them. It often leads to fun little projects.
I'm fascinated by how AI is fundamentally changing the way we interact with software. Traditional UI paradigms don't quite work when your interface can understand intent, generate content, and introduce completely new types of unpredictable interactions. That's why I always have a couple of personal projects to work on, to explore these new patterns and technologies while building something useful. Currently I'm working on Scraib, an AI writing assistant for Mac that helps me discover what makes AI interactions feel natural rather than intrusive.
this website
This website is built with SvelteKit, it is stored on GitHub, and distributed with Vercel.