Designer first, engineer by necessity.

I started in visual design and moved toward engineering because the handoff kept losing the parts I cared about — the timing of a transition, how a layout holds up at an awkward width, what happens on the third tap. Building it myself turned out to be the shortest way to keep those decisions intact.

Most of my work is with small teams shipping the first or second version of something. That usually makes the interesting problems questions of scope: what to leave out, what to make obvious and what can wait until people have actually used the thing.

Outside of client work, I keep a playground of small builds. They are where I test ideas too unfinished to argue for in a real project, and a few of them have quietly become the way I work.