Designer, engineer, and founder specializing in AI products and processes.
Currently building Byline, bringing authorship transparency to writing.
Adjunct professor at Duke, teaching AI entrepreneurship and design engineering.
Previously founding engineer at Driver (YC, Google Ventures) and Infinity AI (YC, Matrix).
I also run Quarter Pixel Labs, my studio for experiments in design and AI.
A collaborative writing platform with accurate authorship attribution and integrated AI.
AIWritingEducationProductWeb
An AI-powered workspace for your codebases, with autogenerated docs and an intelligent, Notion-like editor.
AIProductFrontendWebDesign
A playful, racing-inspired app to quickly decide the order of participants for meetings, games, drafts, or events.
WebToolFunDesign
Learn rhythm and tones while creating beats in a simple, fun application.
SoftwareFrontendWebDesign
AI search engine that curated high-quality sources. Built pre-Perplexity, post-Google.
AIProductFrontendBackend
See the real energy cost of your AI use in a powerful, visual experience.
SoftwareHardwareProductDesign
Some highlights
🛠2x founding engineer (frontend and software eng), 1x founder.
👨🏫Adjunct professor at Duke, teaching AI entrepreneurship and design engineering.
🚀Was the first hire at two Y Combinator startups backed by firms like Google Ventures (GV) and Matrix. Over $13M raised. [1][2]
🧩Co-created HCL's design system used by 100+ designers across 10+ products.
🔬Conducted research at many R1 universities. [example]
🎤Frequent guest lecturer on applying UX principles to AI products. [example]
🤖Invited to join the Future of AI panel at Data Science Conference Europe 2024 to talk about building user experiences for AI. [watch it]
🎓Studied biomedical engineering (BS) and industrial design (MS) at NC State.
🔥Tableau has called my designs "sexy".