Experience

1. Praxis Labs

   Design Engineer

   2026 — Present·Charlotte, NC

   Terminal-first developer tools, built in the open. A place to work out the ideas I want to use myself.

   • Built the suite that gets me from ticket to merge without leaving the terminal: ZenLinear opens the issue, ZenTerm is where the work happens, ZenNotes sits alongside it, ZenReview reads the diff, ZenOcto ships the PR and watches its checks. One set of keybindings across all of them.
   • Ghostty, gh-dash, tuicr, and linear-tui are why I enjoy working in a pty, and each does one job well. I wanted them to feel like part of the same system, so I built one.
   • ZenReview stores what you have read as line ranges that survive the next rewrite, so a review of agent-written code still means something after the code moves underneath it.
   • Six tools across Swift, Go, and Lua. ZenTerm builds its panes, drawers, tool floats, and workspaces on a libghostty core, signed and notarized with its own updater.

2. Craftwork

   Principal Designer & Full-Stack Developer

   2023 — Present·Remote

   YC-backed residential services platform. Leading design and front-end across the product suite.

   • Worked with the operations team to design the major operator surfaces on Craftwork OS and shipped most of them as one of three full-stack engineers. 15–20 HQ operators run their day on it across three markets, coordinating 50–70 crew members.
   • Shipped the customer portal and marketing site, owning CRO and SEO across paid and organic traffic, and built the Craftwork referral system end to end as a solo project: self-onboarding 37% → 85%, conversion ~4% → ~12% across both channels.

     • 37%→85%
     • 4%→12%
   • Own and maintain Craftwork's design system: brand guidelines and HIG (written with the staff designer and CEO), @craftwork/ui component package, Storybook documentation, and Figma parity. Consumed across every product surface from the Turborepo monorepo.
   • Work directly with the founders on product direction, holding the design bar across the engineering team.

3. AuraNote

   Co-Founder & Engineer

   2025 — 2026·Remote

   An AI journaling app I co-founded and built end to end. Wound down in 2026.

   • Designed and shipped the Next.js web app solo — contextual prompt engine, streaming reflections, and a mood-classified image pipeline — plus the operator console the team tuned Aura's prompts, models, and pipeline from without a deploy.
   • 9-month closed beta with 100 invited testers, peak 45 DAU. Image generation was the pitch and it carried a minority, not the cohort. A mobile rewrite around brevity reached pre-beta before we wound the product down.

4. Stashpad

   Designer & Frontend Developer

   2022 — 2023·Remote

   Techstars-backed, local-first note-taking app for developers.

   • Shared ownership of the UI system and component library, and built components and features across the desktop app.
   • Co-led the full UI rewrite with the founders after scrapping V1.

5. Hyak Co.

   Founder

   2020 — 2021·Charlotte, NC

   A boutique creative studio I started, ran, and sold.

   • Delivered 15+ design systems and marketing sites for early-stage clients, plus ongoing CRO and paid search management.
   • Acquired by Engage Content in 2021 for the client book and lead-gen IP.

6. Dunstone Company

   Marketing Director

   2013 — 2020·Charlotte, NC

   Global aerospace composites manufacturer. In-house designer and digital builder wearing a marketing title.

   • Started as a machine operator and worked up to marketing director, doing all the brand, website, and design work across digital and IRL surfaces, including interactive 3D product demos in Unity and Cinema 4D.
   • Shipped custom lead-gen sites that 3x'd inbound interest to ~40 leads/month.
   • Managed a new-product-development sales territory in parallel, responsible for $1M in annual recurring revenue.

Projects