SINCE Mar 2023
Fractional Product Designer+Engineer
Fractional design-oriented product generalist. Heavy focus on designing new features and redesigning existing ones. Working directly with product owners to distill customer needs and shape product strategy. Hands-on manager of one. Strong HTML, CSS & Python coding skills. Uniquely positioned to leverage LLM technologies.
Select Clients
> Power supply technology co
Designed consumer app for charging EVs, charger management dashboard for station owners and UX for charging kiosk.
30-year-old company with commercial real estate AUM over $1bn.
> insurance tech startup
Redesigned online product offering.
This startup was part of Y Combinator Winter 2022 batch.
Sep 2019—Dec 2022
Founder & Product Generalist
Plot Network Inc.
Took Plot from an idea into a consumer product: tool to build resumes for nonlinear career paths. Later, pivoted to a two-sided hiring app for blue-collar industry.
A side product that emerged: WhoThis, a link-in-bio app for creators. Initial pre-Covid product ('19-'20): social journal and maps focused on recommendations.
Sep 2017—May 2019
Academic Sabbatical
University of Surrey (Guildford, UK)
18-month academic sabbatical in southeast England. Took courses across engineering, business & arts.
> Blocdoc
Wrote a
paper on future of documents and document management systems as year-long research project. Built
Blocdoc, a novel block-based fluid document editor with transclusion, collaboration and in-built templates for various use cases. Work inspired by Douglas Engelbart's research from 1950s.
2012-2013
UX Developer
Self-employed
Shipped consumer internet software including a location-based mobile photo messaging app (like geocaching with friends), a web-based private journal, and a messaging service for people to text local businesses. Also built HTML5 & CSS3 applications for clients.
2008-2011
Software Developer Intern / Co-op
> Offerpop Inc. (dba Wyng Inc.)2011
Built early features of
marketing software that powered ad campaigns of Fortune 500, including Audi's Superbowl campaign. Also created a popular app on the Facebook platform that reached over 200k MAUs.
> Research In Motion Inc.2009
Built consumer social networking apps in
BlackBerry's Software R&D Prototype Group. Wrote an innovative power management algorithm.
> RBC2008
Wrote QA / automated testing software for
banking products used by millions of Canadians.
Academics & Certifications
> University of Waterloo
Foundations of Large Language Models, Dec 2024
Professional Certification in transformer architectures and ML techniques, with hands-on experience building RAG systems using open-source LLMs and applying model optimization methods.
> University of Surrey
Computer science. Global Graduate Award in German.
> University of Waterloo
Software engineering & computer science.