As a true hybrid engineer and designer, I turn anything from vague feature requests to free-flowing brainstorms into fully-baked, ready-to-ship features. I build products that work for everyone: intuitive enough for users to breeze through, with code that's easy to understand for teammates (and myself 6 months in the future).
I'm currently at Diffbot creating LeadGraph—a powerful market intelligence platform. In my previous career, I worked at Google solving user issues with empathy, communication, and gorgeous spreadsheets.
I'm based in beautiful Berkeley, CA where you can find me on long walks, sipping a hojicha latte, and adding to my fun fact repertoire with a constant stream of podcasts.
That’s where I was in the Spring of 2018—newly-promoted with another department-wide project to manage, but also a whole new technical skillset and a big decision to make.
During my six and a half years at Google, I worked on products I love, helped millions of users, and had the best teammates. Reflecting on my career, I knew my past experiences gave me unique insights and skills that I would be able to take to my new career. For example:
In the end, it wasn’t really a hard decision. Programming lets me use my imagination, problem-solving obsession, and fascination with people in ways that I still find thrilling. Since taking the leap to work for myself, I’ve gotten to work on interesting freelance projects, build my own products, and travel to a few continents!