Product builder. PM for a decade. Engineer by training.

How I Got Here

I studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and started my career as a software engineer. I liked the directness of it. You wrote code, the product changed, and you could feel pretty quickly whether what you made was useful.

Over time, I moved into product management and found a different kind of craft there: understanding where users were getting stuck, deciding what was worth building, making tradeoffs when everything could not be done at once, and helping teams turn a fuzzy problem into something clear and useful. My product career has been anchored by roles at Docusign and LinkedIn.

What feels new now is being able to sit closer to both seats at once. I bring the product judgment that comes from years of owning outcomes, but I can also get ideas into a tangible enough form to test them without waiting for a full team to materialize around them.

Why I Am Building Again

I have been happy in product, but I missed the feeling of making something myself. I would occasionally write scripts for fun, but I did not really have side projects that felt like real products.

One of those scripts was a scrappy Python cron job that watched a product page for a hard-to-find Giants jacket and sent me a Telegram message when one finally came back in stock. That kind of thing was fun, but it still felt like tinkering around the edges.

Coding agents and tools like Codex, Claude Code, Lovable, and Magic Patterns changed that. They lowered the cost of trying ideas. More importantly, they brought back a part of building that I had missed: starting with a fuzzy problem, making something concrete, using it, and learning from where it falls short.

What This Site Is

This site is a place to share a few things I have built and a few lessons that came out of building them. Some are small utilities. Some are broader system exercises. The point is not to make grand claims. It is to show the work, what I learned from it, and the kinds of problems I am excited to keep working on.