Fast, clear interfaces for complex software.

1. 01 · Rebuild

   A configuration tool for large data syncs

   Owned the design and build, and kept it responsive on tens to hundreds of thousands of client-side records.

   • Web workers
   • Debounced search
   • Indexed retrieval
   • Targeted fetching
   • Pagination
   • Cache eviction

   Each lights up when the demo uses it. The demo is a from-scratch sketch on synthetic data, not the production tool.

   Try it

   Search 200,000 synthetic parts

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2. 02 · Migration

   Replacing legacy systems without a cutover

   Led the frontend of the replacement, migrating feature by feature rather than in one cutover.

   • Incremental migration
   • Frontend lead
   • Tables and filters
   • Node.js

3. 03 · Practice

   AI-assisted development, with the review intact

   Helped establish agentic workflows and shared agent configurations from the ground floor, and taught other engineers.

   • Agentic coding workflows
   • Claude Code
   • Codex
   • GitHub Copilot

4. 04 · Startup

   Shipping product on a small team

   Built the main customer-facing pages and a custom checkout on a small product team.

   • Next.js
   • GraphQL
   • MongoDB
   • Custom checkout

1. 01

   Own the problem. Show every stage.

   Carry a feature from data model to interface, and demo each stage while feedback can still change it.

   • Technical design
   • Data modeling
   • Stage-by-stage demos
   • Product and design partnership

2. 02

   Check it before you trust it.

   Reproduce first, check each claim against the source, and keep the review when AI writes the code.

   • Root-cause analysis
   • Mutation testing
   • Client-side validation
   • AI-assisted code review

3. 03

   Leave it easier to build on.

   Extend shared components instead of forking them, write the direction down, and review so the team learns.

   • Shared components
   • Front-end vision
   • Code review
   • Mentoring

1. Argument

   The physics of scrolling

   The physics of scrolling is not a figure of speech.

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2. Argument

   The brief and the check

   When AI systems can do real work, the job moves away from doing, but not to routing.

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3. Exploration

   The backup is a phone

   One error, one company, every phone on its network at the same moment.

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