Product designer & design leader

Bringing clarity to complex systems.

Agentic AI, developer tools, and infrastructure.

Currently at Vanta. Previously Confluent, Cortex, and Xano.

Selected work

Vanta 2025

Connecting compliance issues to fixes in developer tools

Design preview · times shown are illustrative estimates.

Guidance tailored to each failing test, with a handoff to coding assistants when the fix requires changes outside Vanta.

I designed the remediation interaction and built the trace-review tool.

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Confluent 2017–2022

Building streaming pipelines across canvas and code

Stream Designer’s visual pipeline and SQL shown side by side

Guided connector setup and a visual pipeline builder that let people move between canvas and code without losing control.

Sole designer on Stream Designer; led the earlier connector experience.

Earlier connector setup work: conversion increased from 43% to 65%.

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Xano 2023–2024

From an empty workspace to a working backend

Xano’s first-use dashboard with guided tasks for creating a table and API

A guided first-use experience that teaches databases and APIs through building something that works.

Led product design, onboarding, and analytics-led prioritization.

Signup drop-off fell from 32% to 6.8% in a 90-day baseline comparison.

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Things I’ve built

Tools I’ve designed and built for work and everyday life.

For my family

Meal planner

I built this to make family meal planning easier: collect feedback, draft a weekly plan, and get a person’s review before shopping or cooking. It runs across the tools we already use.

Collect feedback
Draft the plan
Review together
Human review
Coordinate
Shop and cook
Carry feedback forward

The weekly planning and review loop.

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Built at Vanta

Agent trace dashboard

A tool I built to review production agent sessions when the existing LangSmith views couldn’t answer my design questions.

Question: Did the guidance lead to a verified fix?
Design changes: Kept test context visible, clarified next actions, and prompted verification.

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About

I started in civil and environmental engineering and helped design water infrastructure for rural communities through Engineers Without Borders. That work shaped my interest in complex systems and the people who depend on them.

At Confluent, I joined as the second designer and later led a six-person team. At Xano, I led product design and managed two designers, pairing hands-on work with analytics and prioritization.

I prototype in code, build tools to answer design questions, and use observed behavior to challenge assumptions. Whether I’m shaping an interaction or aligning teams around a shared model, I want people to understand what a system can do and have the control to use it well.

Full background and experience

Let’s talk

Working on a hard product problem in AI or developer tools? I’d be glad to talk.