I began coding in the late 2000s, typing into a textarea of vBulletin for a Nintendo fan forum. Without syntax highlighting, border-radius, or flexbox, I’d spend hours exporting assets from Photoshop and laying out content in CSS.
Type a few characters, and suddenly every button changes colors on hover. (From blue to… a slightly different blue!) I thought this was the coolest thing in the world.
I still think coding is cool.
Most of my job titles have included the word “designer”, but code is my medium and the browser is my favorite design tool. I believe that designing for the web means working in the medium of the web—namely, HTML and CSS. Interactive mediums deserve interactive iteration.
I love working digitally, but when I need to think about gnarly problems, I take my sketchbook and my pen, I find a quiet place to sit, and I write.
I currently work at Scribe as a Senior Design Engineer. Previously, I spent time building things at Cityblock, Dropbox, and Swiftype. You can download my resume here.
In my free time I play piano and listen to city pop and noodle with synths. I like reading about urbanism, transit, and queer history. I’d like to have a non-digital garden one day—one with dirt.
Always open to chats and coffee in NYC. Say hello!
