Open to design engineering and product design roles
Product Designer & Design Engineer Design Systems & AI Tools
I design systems and the tools around them, then build and run them. Code does everything it can, the model gets the smallest job it can be trusted with, and a person approves wherever the consequences are.
A script checks for new product drops before any model runs. An idle day costs about $0.30 instead of $12.
Proof: Asheville automations →The agent edits the resume, but every change arrives highlighted and versioned, for the person to accept or reject.
Proof: Ghosted →An AI checker proposes festival updates as ordinary CMS drafts. Editors publish; the AI never does.
Proof: VegAvengers →I came to product design through visual journalism, brand systems, and front-end engineering. That range lets me translate creative intent into product rules, prototype behavior, make constraints legible, and speak the language of the team shipping it.
Shipped systems where I decided what code does, what the model does, and where a person signs off — then built them and kept them running.
Leading design for three brands, and building the in-house AI automations that turn approved design work into finished assets — starting with a product-to-social video pipeline that replaced 3–5 hours of manual editing a week.
Designed and shipped the content platform behind vegavengers.com — a Payload CMS system of record with an editorial dashboard, publish-triggered rebuilds, and an AI freshness checker whose every proposal waits for editor approval.
An AI-assisted job-application product, designed across three versions — a terminal prototype, a web app where one bounded model call wrote the prose, and a rebuild around a live resume canvas where every AI edit is a change you accept or reject.
Designed and built a local-first Mac and iPhone planner where people and AI use the same typed, receipt-backed operations—keeping generated plans honest, editable, and under human control.
Open to design engineering, product design, and design systems roles on AI and tool products, remote in the US or in Portland. The fastest way to reach me is email.