Translating research ideas into reliable user-facing systems under high ambiguity.

• Led end-to-end delivery for flagship products (Vaults, Orchestration, Fast USDC) at Agoric (2022-2024).
• Founded Coursera's Growth team and drove experiment-led delivery across localization and SEO (2013-2015).
• Rapidly prototyped and shipped new web learning experiences for science education at WISE (2002-2006).
• Ran rapid exploratory efforts for new product directions and translated them into roadmapped work at Quizlet.
• Productionized high-stakes contract workflows for systems managing $2M+ TVL.

Guiding teams through hypergrowth and establishing the foundations for long-term velocity.

• Led product and platform groups at Quizlet while scaling engineering from 50 to 250 (2017-2021).
• Established shared foundations, instrumentation, and release quality bars to improve execution speed.
• Drove a major performance initiative at Remind that reduced key page load times from 18s to 3s on 3G (2015-2017).
• Built integration bridges and reusable patterns that accelerated partner development.

Bridging the gap between human needs and technical implementation.

• Ph.D. in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University.
• Dissertation: Improving Students' Study Practices Through the Principled Design of Research Probes.
• Collaborated with researchers to design interaction patterns for inquiry-based science learning.
• Drove engineering AI-tool adoption by identifying practical use cases and sharing workflows.
• Taught Prototyping User Interfaces and Human-Centered Systems at CMU.