About Me
A decade of design systems work, built for an AI-first world.
I’ve spent a decade shipping design for our favorite brands. Now I’m sharing what I learned, and why it still matters in an AI-first world.
What I Bring
Craft and pragmatism: high-quality work that actually ships.
Design systems at scale: building the foundations teams build on.
AI-first thinking: understanding where AI changes the practice, and where it still doesn’t.
Skills
The specific things I bring to a design systems team, day to day.
Design Systems
Token Architecture
Naming Systems
Component APIs
Source-of-Truth Hierarchies
Product Design
Product Flows
Information Architecture
Cross-Product Consistency
Fintech UX
AI Workflow
Figma Code Connect
Machine-Readable Metadata
AI-Native Documentation
Design-to-Code
Cross-Platform
Android
iOS
Web
One Consistent System
Tools
What I build with.
Figma
Framer
Notion
Claude
Where I’ve Worked
Five companies, one throughline: design systems that scale, plus earlier years at Apple and Pinterest.
PayPal
AI-Ready Design System · Money Movement, 2024–Present
Medium
Medium Design System, 2022–2023
Stash
Text Components, 2021–2022
Plaid
Flexible Link, 2019–2021
How I Work
A decade spent making design systems people actually want to use: diagnosed, rebuilt, and proven with real numbers, every time.
01 Diagnose
I start by mapping where a system breaks (for people, for tooling, or for scale) before touching a single component.
02 Architect
Token structures, naming systems, and component APIs get rebuilt with intent, not just polish.
03 Ship with proof
Every system change ships with a measurable before/after: hours saved, friction removed, adoption gained.
04 Hand off the system
Documentation and a clear source-of-truth hierarchy outlive the initial build.
Designing Success