A.I. Native Designer + Builder

Former Microsoft Senior Designer turned philanthropic entrepreneur and AI-native designer and builder.

I harbor a background in both enterprise SaaS and startup 0-to-1 environments with a verifiable track record of delivering world-first innovation. The more I work with AI, the more I realize this is the last bastion for designers, the line in the sand which AI cannot (yet) cross. That said, I’ve found AI is incredibly motivated and excited by innovative thoughts and approaches — a happy Claude is an excellent sign.

Most recently, I founded and built a company from the ground up in pursuit of making the world a kinder and more authentic place to call home. How? By returning social media to its original purpose! Real humans connecting on the internet — no bots, no misinformation, and images and video you can trust to be real. Crazy idea, right? I'm incredibly proud to say we were successful. Octopii Social is a modest but kind and authentic social platform which is growing every day.

I also wanted to use this world-saving opportunity to demonstrate the full breadth of my skills while leveraging AI to its fullest extent possible — both as a workflow and a user-facing product. It's been a delightful journey. I became an AI power user, designing and developing an agentic UX interwoven into every surface of the platform dashboard. In total I (and Claude) contributed over 600,000 lines of code to the live Octopii Social product and administrative tooling. This meant utilizing a 10-phase AI workflow which provides the sufficient structure and guardrails to produce production grade code. Being able to iterate in realtime has been a revelation; I now have authority over the final user experience — as I hope more teams and designers soon adopt. The amount of time saved by directly iterating on complex interaction designs is nothing short of a miracle.

I’ve fully adopted AI-assisted design, engineering, program management, communication and research — I am able to iterate on the end product in real time and maintain coherency across the entire tech and production stack, usually running 10 Claude terminals at a time.

If I were compelled to compare myself, I would say my most pronounced skillset is strategy, ideation, and vision. I naturally arrive at innovative solutions to 1,000-piece puzzles, regardless of the subject matter or problem space. Given a problem, I will produce a suite of informed solutions and provide strategic guidance as to the best option given any number of conditions, constraints, and priorities of multiple parties — from business goals and organizational needs to technical constraints and customer requirements. I enjoy this process as much or more than building solutions themselves.

My ideal day is one in which I’m able to exercise all of these strengths simultaneously with sufficient autonomy to innovate, solve, and iterate as quickly as possible. Give me a puzzle or problem, the more complex the better, and I will demonstrate what I do best.