I studied MechE and EECS at MIT. It was too late to switch majors before I realized I wanted to do design. But I kinda think it doesn’t matter.

After graduating in 2015, I was founding designer for Reach Labs, a Y Combinator S2015 hardware startup inventing long-range wireless power. I did the industrial design of our base stations and receivers, as well as our brand design and product strategy.

In 2019, I joined Honey to lead their fintech vertical. We launched Honey Pay (point of sale installment loans) and Gift Card Deals. Millions of users loved it. I moved on to have a team of 4 while shipping major features on every Honey product surface.

In 2020, PayPal acquired Honey for $4B, and I stepped up to be design systems lead. I built a workflow that unified our design tokens across PayPal, Honey, and Venmo so we could ship once and deploy to 3 brands. I was missing traditional product work, so I joined the PayPal Rewards team and launched Challenges, a sort of quests experience, before leaving in 2023.

I’m currently doing design at Lightspark in Los Angeles, where we build products and APIs for moving money around the world, in real time and at super low cost. We’re a super small design team led by Geoff Teehan. We do everything: product, brand, marketing, sales. Some highlights so far:

We built Node, which Coinbase uses for Lightning payments. We built Grid, which SoFi uses for cross-border remittances. And we just launched Grid Global Accounts, a global dollar account with debit cards, access to local banking rails, and compatibility with every major chain.

In general, I build things with an insane amount of care and craft, and I make sure they make sense and do their job well. Read more