Build your life like a product.

Built for complexity.Designed for clarity.

I design mobile systems with clear boundaries, deliberate tradeoffs, and no tolerance for accidental complexity. Every decision should earn its place, from the architecture to the last frame of an interaction.

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Current focus

Building a modern flight bag.

Leading iOS for Ascent EFB: flight planning, weather briefing, and a fast, uncluttered moving map for pilots on iPad and iPhone.

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Writing

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Cross-Team Collaboration Is Cross-Process Communication

Designing a sync-publish share SDK between two apps, and what passing an identifier instead of a file taught me about working across teams

Nov 2020

A Year After WWDC 2019: Putting Property Wrappers into Production

Wrapping per-target branding differences behind a Swift 5.1 property wrapper so business code stops reading build configuration

Jun 2020

Designing the Native Bridge for a Collaborative Web Editor

How we treated the JavaScript bridge as a protocol boundary between an iOS SDK and a real-time document engine

Feb 2020

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Built for the messy parts.

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Consumer app · Head of iOS

Ascent EFB

Building a modern electronic flight bag for pilots: flight planning, weather briefing, and a fast, uncluttered moving map on iPad and iPhone.

ascentefb.com App Store

2025—Now

Independent iPhone app · Designer & developer

Usages

A private iPhone dashboard for AI coding usage: quota windows, reset times, tokens, and cost from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, and four more, with a focus timer, widgets, and Live Activities.

usages.app App Store

2026—Now

Consumer video & photo · iOS Engineer

Creative editing tools at scale

Helped take a template creation experience from zero to one, with a focus on rendering, modularity, and predictable state.

capcut.com CapCut · App Store Hypic · App Store

2019—2021