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Founding Design Engineer at Axel (YC W19), shipping product design and production React PRs.

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Featured work

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  1. 01

    Axel

    design, code & growth

    Founding Design Engineer · Full-time

    Now
  2. 02

    Nutra

    fintech for everyone

    UI/UX & Product Design

    2024
  3. 03

    TikTok Pay KYC

    scaled across markets

    Product Designer (Intern)

    2025
  4. 04

    Hyundai IONIQ 6

    designing for trust at L2+

    HMI Designer

    2025
  5. 05

    Field of Vision

    wearable for visually impaired pedestrians

    Product Designer & Researcher

    2024
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Side projects

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  1. DEMO/A daily research briefing
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    Peer

    Ten papers a day, chosen for your work.

    Research tool

    Live
  2. DEMO/A little everyday care
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    Pado

    Your cat's everyday notebook.

    Pet care

    Live
  3. DEMO/One more round
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    Aspen Play

    Nineteen browser games, solo or with friends.

    Browser games

    Live
  4. DEMO/Writing becomes cards
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    CardFlow

    Notion-style writing, 小红书-style cards.

    Content tool

    Live
  5. DEMO/A closer look
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    SKYLER Visual Archive

    HUD-style portfolio built for concept artist Skyler.

    Artist portfolio

    Live
  6. DEMO/Follow the storm
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    Typhoon Bavi × HX253

    Typhoon Bavi's track, measured against one flight.

    Data visualization

    Archive
WORKSHOP / SKILLS & CHARACTERDESIGN · BUILD · STAY CURIOUS

Design it.
Ship the PR.

FOUNDING DESIGN ENGINEER

At Axel, I connect product design, frontend, brand, campaigns and email. Design becomes code; engineering feedback shapes the next design.

Areas of ownership06
02 / Frontend engineeringIN PRACTICE

Ship production PRs

Build the components, responsive layouts and motion myself. My main deliverable is a reviewable PR with a working preview.

React · Next.js · TypeScript · QA

SEE THE WORKAxel
AXEL / GROWTH WE BUILT THROUGH

0 → 30M

GMV

0 → 100K+

USERS

Team milestones. My contribution: product experiences, production frontend PRs, and the brand and marketing touchpoints around them.

See what I ship at Axel

Still making

480commits · last 90 days

GitHub
Active days
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Snapshot · Sep 17, 2026Personal · Private
A little about me
Personality, self-described

INFJ-A

One mind. Many ways to make.

Design, engineering & little experiments.

Serious about the work. Still making things for the fun of it.

Off the clock

More little things
A gloved hand holding a reel of developed film above a sink

Film, by hand.

From taking the picture to developing the film.

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Design system

v0.3

ASPEN PLAY / DESIGN SYSTEM

Aspen Originv0.3

Aspen Play's design system, documented as a working tool.

SURFACE / MATERIAL STUDYLIVE COMPONENTS
--ap-surface-raised#242424

A fine top highlight. A compact shadow below.

Inside Aspen Origin

Try real components, inspect their tokens, and bring the rules into your next build.

Open design system
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Tech stack

I design, build, and ship — production PRs at Axel and live products of my own. Cursor and Claude Code accelerate the work, with MCPs connecting Figma, Unity, and Customer.io to the same workflow.

Pick a discipline. See it in motion.

Design

4 tools
Shape, type, and interaction, down to the control point.
  • Figma + Figma MCPInterfaces, prototypes & shared context
  • FramerInteractive websites
  • Rhino + Keyshot3D form & material studies
  • Adobe CSVisual assets & finishing

Where it lives

Where every project starts — Figma is the desk

A connected practice

Design ↔ code
Design
Frontend
Templating
Backend
Game

I move between design and implementation: shape the experience, build it, test it, and bring what I learn back into the design.