Creating internal tools for LinkedIn’s design teams. As the first full-time Design Engineer at LinkedIn, I’m working to expand our portfolio beyond Figma plugins and into other interesting areas, all in the service of making designer’s lives easier and helping them get their work in the hands of engineers faster and at a higher level of craft and quality.
Internal tools for LinkedIn design teams. I started working with the Figma Plugin API at its launch and built out a suite of tools to help LinkedIn Design transition from Sketch to Figma, while improving engineering handoff and protecting user privacy. My work on these tools established the quality bar and best practices for Design Engineering at LinkedIn.
Indie development & design studio. I have worked independently, consulting with clients, startups, and other studios for the bulk of my career.
Completely redesigned, re-architected, and rebuilt the popular online cycling publication. Reduced infrastructure costs while improving site responsiveness.
Built and maintained a fully-custom ecommerce site on Shopify (with many side quests) for this collectible vinyl art toy company, from the founder of Kid Robot.
Maintained the social network’s React app as the solo frontend engineer during this period, fixing bugs and building out new features part-time.
New feature development for an aging Rails app and static marketing site during Highrise’s brief stint as an independent subsidiary of 37signals.
Designed the backend architecture for a SaaS meal planning client and then built out the backend/CMS for the service. Also provided frontend strategy consulting.
Created a custom CMS for this small museum to curate an online portfolio of its exhibitions and events—past/present—with a unique, highly-interactive frontend.
Built a system allowing customers to build (configure), save, share, and buy their high-end, custom bicycle designs, based on options managed by the Budnitz team.
Designed the brand, worked on business strategy with my founder chef client, designed the product, and then built the frontend and backend of this SaaS app.
A volunteer organization to build software enabling political action. Our first idea was Switchboard: an app that would take your name and zip code and automatically connect you with your local congressperson over the phone.
Part Pinterest-for-words, part link-blog, Hilite was a self-funded startup that allowed you to follow individuals or categorized “stacks” of quotes on topics you picked. The basis for each post had to be a quoted section of a publicly-accessible website.
Founded and built a platform for indie bands to promote and sell their music/merch, giving them a direct connection to their fans that iTunes wouldn’t allow them.
I started my career in traditional graphic design, print design, brand identity, and brand storytelling. It continues to influence how I think about product design and development.