I'm a designer and engineer, and currently Co-founder and Chief Design Officer at Cove, a Sequoia-backed seed stage startup.
I helped create Uber Eats, where I was Sr Director of Product Design from 2014–2020, built the Eats design team from zero to 50+, and helped build the Eats business from zero to $25B in annual bookings.
Previously, I spent time as an entrepreneur in residence at GV, and was an early designer on Google Maps where I helped create Street View.
Between Uber and Cove, I spent two years primarily investing and advising seed stage, series A, and series B startups. I'm now heads down building Cove, but do occasional advising and angel investing in special cases.
I've advised these seed-stage, series A, and series B startups on design and product:
While I'm focused on Cove, I occasionally take on advising or angel investing in special cases. If you're building something new and think I might be a good match, get in touch!
This is not a full portfolio, but you can look at a few design case studies describing some of my work at Uber and Google.
Osito was an AI group travel booking tool I built from the first commit.
Onion Map is a experimental map that radically deemphasizes streets, and highlights the relationship between topography and neighborhood names. It uses OpenStreetMap data, a bespoke Mapbox style, and some javascript to adjust contour colors dynamically based on the viewport.
Degen Blues is a smart contract that generates a new "robot music" melody every 24 hours, based on the movements in that day's Ethereum prices. The collection launched in early 2022 with 545 unique melodies, and will continue to automatically produce a new melody each day for eternity.
This started out as an art project between friends, and ended up raising $10,000 in donations for the Biden campaign.
In the early days of the Covid pandemic, what Zoom background to "wear" to work was every person's most visible fashion choice. With that in mind, I made a series of digital paintings intended for use as Zoom backgrounds—not too many garish colors, with plenty of room for your face in the middle. I did these paintings throughout 2020, first as a gift for a few friends, and later on a commission model, in exchange for contributions to the Biden/Harris campaign.
If you're looking for one of the macOS apps I've developed in the past, like Shellsilver, Pyper, or Lunamoth: I'm sorry, these are no longer being maintained and are not compatible with current versions of Mac OS. There are lots of great alternatives out there, though.