Trained in design,fluent in code.

About Me

For the last 15 years I’ve professionally designed and built products for early-stage startups, Fortune 500 companies, and everything in between. In most cases I’ve consulted as a hybrid design engineer jumping between UI/UX design and frontend engineering, but these days I frequently span the entire stack.

I got my earliest exposure to web development building a rollercoaster fansite called Xtremecoastin (really) with a group of high school friends, and the rest was history. In the years after I did web design for local businesses before starting my own consulting business, Atomi Design, in 2012. From 2014 to 2017 I ran a 2,000+ member meetup group in San Francisco called Designers Who Code, and from 2019 to 2022 ran a JavaScript meetup group called TahoeJS in South Lake Tahoe, CA.

Lately I’ve been exploring the upside-down world of agentic design and development, software factories, and trying to make sense of what it means for all of us in this forever fast-changing industry.