Netflix has its own, impressive AI-powered voice search
Netflix · 2025 · Lead Prototyper
Read more on The Verge →I'm a design engineer at Netflix focused on Gen AI experiences. I embed closely with design, research, product, and ML to build tools, new interfaces, and infrastructure for evaluation and measuring AI quality across our products.
Before Netflix, I was at Replit, CommandBar, Microsoft, and Shopify. I studied Systems Design Engineering at Waterloo, which gave me a little bit of everything.
Outside of work, I invest in early-stage startups and build communities around things I care about: Design Eng Club, Rabbitholeathon, and Women Who Lift.
I'm interested in creative and collaborative coding, tools for thought, HCI, storytelling, and education.
I'm also a Neo Scholar, Interact Fellow, and Cansbridge Fellow.
eng & product
You Can Now Create Bite-Sized Clips from Your Favorite Scenes on Netflix
Netflix · 2025 · Lead Prototyper
Read more on Tudum →Inky
Side Project · 2026
Prototyped an AI writing companion that fosters critical thinking skills. Students talk through ideas to get an outline, write the first draft themselves, then revise with feedback tied to specific passages.
Figma for Words
Side Project · 2025
Built an interactive canvas that transforms writing style through spatial positioning.
Users drag text across a 2D axis plane (e.g., Cold→Warm, Simple→Complex) and watch their prose transform in real-time. AI interprets the spatial coordinates to adjust tone, complexity, and emotional resonance.
AI Design Copilot
Side Project · 2025
Built a POC of a design agent that enables real-time iteration through natural language.
Users type commands like "add a cat" or "change the background" - Claude interprets the intent and executes precise edits on the canvas, replacing manual UI manipulation.
See demo →AI Social Media Asset Generator for Brands
Side Project · 2025
Extended the AI Design Copilot to solve a friend's startup problem: generating brand-consistent social media concepts at scale.
Figma Cursor Background Agent
Side Project · 2025
As a design engineer who constantly gets pinged for small front-end changes, used the cursor background agents API to have cursor automatically make PRs based on updates to Figma design system files.
See demo →
Internet Research Labs
Internet Research Labs · 2023
Matched 120 internet strangers using sentence transformers to connect people with creative interests.
Read the blog post →Braille Buddy
University of Waterloo · 2023–2024 · Mobile Eng
An assistive device that helps visually impaired users learn braille independently. Engineering capstone at Waterloo: built a mobile app that uses computer vision to translate braille into English audio in real time.
See case study →Crowdsourced Leaderboard
CommandAI · 2022
Built a playful growth-marketing website for CommandAI where users vote for which websites should adopt a commandbar next.
Some cool scrolling animations here! The voting functionality is not live anymore, but you can check out the website to see the interactions.
Check it out →Replit Cycles Transaction History
Replit · 2022 · Product Engineer
Revamped the transaction history ledger enabling millions of Replit users to see a transparent view of all their spending on the platform.
Connected data from multiple Postgres and Spanner tables, implemented a new GraphQL API, and developed a new UI for the experience.
Read the engineering blog →investments
I'm a scout at Bain Capital Ventures, backing founders with early ideas at pre-seed and seed. I focus primarily on AI, developer tools, creative tools, and consumer.
I sometimes write about theses I'm curious about, like unbundling hardware and AI and the human creativity cycle. I also published a guide on breaking into VC early-career.
Select investments include:
PaperThe new home for designers
ComfyOS for generative AI
DatacurveCurated coding data for LLMs
Mem0Memory layer for AI agents
FlintAutonomous web platform for marketing teams
CodédexGamified platform for learning to code
iKHORAI-powered animation tools
TrajectoryTurns real product usage into AI that continuously improves
PlayfulThe designer in your pocket
VegaGet set up with someone great
RiffleMusic creation studio
OsmoAI-native motion graphics editor
CloudyGPU sandboxes for automated AI research
AutocomputerAutomating workflows with AI
writing
I also write personal essays, more on my Substack. Here are some recent and popular ones:
mapping levels of agency to modes of transportation
Mar 4, 2026
learning to drive (literally and metaphorically)
slop
Dec 16, 2025
on taste, agency, and choosing in the age of ai
breaking into VC early-career
Feb 19, 2025
taste, community, building
my life’s mission: be an enabler
Nov 26, 2025
the thread behind everything I do, and why I do it
a year of design engineering at Netflix
Sep 22, 2025
what I do & what i've learned
the power of recurrings
Jun 21, 2025
the magic of showing up, consistently
realizing how I want to best spend my time
Jun 4, 2023
getting closer to afternoons of whimsy
unbundling hardware
Dec 1, 2024
more tech that does less
ai and the human creativity cycle
Jan 19, 2024
because creating is better together.
community
I organize and build communities for builders and creatives, including Design Eng Club, Rabbitholeathon, Women Who Lift, Socratica and Modern Angels.
communities
Design Eng Club
founder · SF & NYC · 2025-present
Design Eng Club is a community for people working at the intersection of design, code, and systems. We host screenings, salons, workshops, demo nights, and conversations focused on building more humane, craft-driven software and interactive experiences. It started from a single Twitter post that surfaced a real need for a high-signal home for this craft. Today we run an invite-first online community (900+ on the interest list) and curated events in SF and NYC.
learn more →
Rabbitholeathon
co-founder · 2022-present
In 2022, I co-founded Rabbitholeathon, where we run ~yearly retreats to bring curious technologists together for a weekend to dive into impactful rabbitholes and share their learnings with others. We've hosted 6 retreats across Ontario, the Bay Area, Utah, North Carolina, and Tennessee, funded by Schmidt Futures, plus local events in SF and NYC to foster curiosity. Topics have spanned building institutions, organizing science through art, the U.S. healthcare system, programmable attention, waste, and more.
learn more →
Women Who Lift SF
co-founder · San Francisco · 2025
I co-organized Women Who Lift, a monthly strength-training class and brunch series for women in tech in San Francisco. We've organized 10+ events to date, working with 3 different VC and startup partners to curate the audience for them and sponsor the class. Every single event has been oversubscribed, it's been one of my favourite ways to start off the weekend, and a great way to build community when I first moved to the city.
learn more →
Modern Angels
co-head of community · 2022-2023
A community of 400+ of women operator angels. We have a curated slack community, dealflow, and inbound for founders and VCs looking to diversify their cap table. I did the logo, website and helped support community infrastructure.
learn more →events
Tufting with design engineers
Design Eng Club × Playful · San Francisco · June 2026
An intimate workshop for ~12 design engineers to tuft their own rugs and hang out with design friends. Sponsored by my port-co, Playful Design!
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General Magic screening
Design Eng Club × Design Film Club · San Francisco · May 2026 · Notion HQ
Part 2 of our General Magic evening — this time we actually watched the movie. Co-hosted with Design Film Club at Notion HQ, with Marc Porat stopping by for an intro and Q&A at the end. Sponsored by BCV.
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Design Eng Club members dinner
Design Eng Club · New York · April 2026
Dinner for design eng club members in NYC!
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An evening on mobile computing: the story of General Magic
Design Eng Club · San Francisco · March 2026
A live Q&A with Marc Porat, Rich Miller, and Mike Stern from the original General Magic team, moderated by Soleio Cuervo. The q&a was so good we never made it to the movie!
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Building interactive interfaces + art
Design Eng Club · Brooklyn · October 2025
A night at telos.haus for design engineers to showcase passion projects and interactive art beyond the day job. ~5-minute demos, light food and drinks, and a room full of builders sharing creative work from generative art to playful interfaces.
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Building agentic interfaces
Design Eng Club × Paradigm · San Francisco · September 2025
An evening at Paradigm with leaders from Browserbase, Cursor, Cognition, and OpenAI on the future of agentic interfaces.
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SF mini rabbitholeathon
Rabbitholeathon × SF Commons · San Francisco · June 2025
A cozy half-day rabbitholeathon at SF Commons — pick a topic, take three hours to dive in, and share what you learned with the group.
event info →
Design Eng PowerPoint night
Design Eng Club · San Francisco · May 2025
A cozy night of rapid-fire PowerPoints — 3 minutes each on how we found our way into design engineering and what kinds of problems keep us curious day to day. Snacks courtesy of Paradigm AI.
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Personal computing hackathon
Cozy computing · New York · February 2024 · 200+ attended
A day at Betaworks NYC to build cozy, personal software — portfolio sites, note-taking systems, habit trackers, and whatever you've been putting off making. 200+ attendees, 8+ sponsors, and prizes, all in the spirit of bringing back technology you make for yourself and your friends.
event page →