About
A designer who ships
Now: San Jose · Open to design engineering roles · San Francisco Bay Area or US remote
I'm a design engineer - a UI/UX designer who writes the code, not an engineer who picked up design. I was the designer before I was the engineer (motion, then UI/UX, at Dartmouth's DALI Lab), so I settle the interaction before I write the code. Most of my work is interaction and visual design, motion, and the SwiftUI, React, and React Native that carries it - plus the product engineering under it: data models, sync, and the backends my apps run on.
I owned a startup's mobile product end to end, and I've built fourteen apps solo as my own studio - all fourteen live on the App Store. Ice Age Life, a narrative life-sim, was the first. I write most of that code now with AI agents I direct and review, which means I get to test a design in working software.
I hold an M.S. in Computer Science & Digital Art and a B.S. in Computer Science, both from Dartmouth.
Path
Experience
- DALI LabMotion & UI/UX Designer, Part-time03/2021 - 03/2024
- MeU ConnectReact Native Developer03/2024 - 12/2024
- WingRep.aiSoftware Engineer12/2024 - 11/2025
- Sunlit StudioDesign Engineer11/2025 - Present14 apps on the App Store
Skills
Design & build
Design
Build
Where I’ve been
Five cities, five time zones, one full circle.
Scroll, and the globe follows me around.
1999 – now · San Jose → Taipei → Houston → Hanover → Buenos Aires → Hanover → San Jose
01 · 1999
San Jose
California
Where the story starts. I was born in San Jose in 1999, and then the whole Pacific happened.
02 · 1999 – 2013
Taipei
Taiwan
I grew up here. After school I'd head to the area around Taipei Main Station for after-school classes, grab dinner and a boba before Chinese class, then write essays until late. Home at 11, sometimes midnight.
03 · 2013 – 2017
Houston
Texas
High school. From my window I could see the school and its football field, and it still took fifteen minutes to walk there, because I had to go all the way around.
04 · 2017 – 2024
Hanover
New Hampshire · Dartmouth
Dartmouth, where I studied computer science and design. One of my favorite things was walking into Vermont: twenty minutes on foot, across the bridge over the Connecticut River.
05 · Age 19 · 3 months
Buenos Aires
Argentina · study abroad
At 19, in the middle of my Dartmouth years, I spent three months in Buenos Aires studying Spanish, then flew back to Hanover to finish. Three months is long enough for a place to stop being a trip and start being somewhere you live.
06 · 2024 – now
San Jose
California · now
And back to the city I was born in, twenty-five years and four homes later, designing and building apps and making shorts about why we're like this.
How I talk
Four languages, very different levels.
- HelloEnglishEnglishFluent
- 你好Mandarin Chinese中文Fluent
- Lí hóTaiwanese台語I understand about half
- HolaSpanishEspañolAbout 30%, after three months in Buenos Aires
What I’m into
Things I can’t stop thinking about.
The why of things
Why we fall in love, form tribes, get jealous, want status, feel lonely. Psychology tells you what we do. I want to know why.
More shipped workThe deep past
Our brains were shaped in small bands of foragers, and they haven't changed much since. So much of now is explained by then.
Ice Age LifeSeeing the world
Japan four times, Europe at 18, three months in Buenos Aires, the bottom of Patagonia. A place stops being a name once you've stood in it.
EverywhenSleep
A good night changes the whole next day. I care about it more than almost anything in my routine.
Sleep MapBuilding things
Instead of reading another book, I build: games and tools that each chase one question about being human.
All work
Contact
Get in touch
I'm open to design engineering roles in the San Francisco Bay Area or remotely within the US. I design the interaction and build it, from the first flow through the data model to the release.
Open to design engineering roles · San Francisco Bay Area or US remote