Professor at Duke
AI entrepreneurship & design engineering
Founder of Byline
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2x YC founding engineer
$20M+ raised. Backed by Google Ventures, Matrix, YC, and Mantis
What I'm working on
Previously was building
Practical tools I've built and actually use
A playful way to decide the order of anything. Fast, fair, and low friction.
Get into the music zone: generate beats while learning about notes and rhythm.
Starter projects you can build from
Portfolio Site Template
A starter portfolio you can deploy in minutes so you can stop tinkering and start sharing your work.
Weather App
A small, readable weather app that teaches the full loop: API call, state, loading, error handling, UI.
Teaching
At Duke, I teach in Engineering and Innovation & Entrepreneurship, focused on building real, user-centric products with craft.
Build an AI startup from zero to demo in one semester.
This course runs like an early-stage startup sprint. Form a team. Find a problem worth solving. Prototype fast. Test with real users.
Along the way, you'll learn what makes AI ventures actually work — product judgment, evaluation, go-to-market strategy, and the ethics and constraints that shape deployment.
You'll solve real problems for real people and ship a working demo.
Design and build polished, usable products.
A build-first studio style course for people who want to ship with intention. You'll learn how to turn fuzzy ideas into clear interfaces, then implement them with real front-end engineering.
We cover the full loop: interaction design, systems thinking, component-driven UI, motion, accessibility, and the practical details that separate a prototype from a product.
By the end, you'll ship a working project you can show, with craft in both the design and the build.
A few highlights
Co-created HCL's design system used by 100+ designers across 10+ products
Conducted research at many R1 universities [example]
Frequent guest lecturer on applying UX principles to AI products [example]
Invited to join the Future of AI panel at DSC Europe 2024 to talk about building user experiences for AI [watch]
Studied biomedical engineering (BS) and industrial design (MS) at NC State
Tableau has called my designs “sexy”
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