Product designer who ships production code (React, TypeScript), working toward design engineering and fiddling with Python and Rust. First designer multiple times, a founder twice, 14+ years across healthcare, marketplaces, and creative tools. Resume →
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Co-founder & product design engineer. Voice AI for older adults. A warmer voice from a rewrite, not a model swap, and confirmed failures turned into tests.
First full-time designer (design + some code). Coupon conversion 2% to 5%, a Webby-winning product, and data-viz cited in the NYT.
Second designer. Designed and shipped the nurse home-visit app: nurses reported 1-2 hours of chart prep gone each day, time for more visits.
Co-founder & CEO (design + code). Collaborative game-dev tooling in Discord; 1,035 peak monthly active users, still live.
First design hire (design + some code). Redesigned the core lesson experience on a live platform; zero forced migration.
I work with AI the way I run a design critique: I question its assumptions, check its work, and push until the reasoning is clear.
Open to product design, design-engineering, and product management roles. I’m selective about the problem, not the introduction, so reach out directly.
Vijay Sivaji (cofounder, y30) and Brett Groshong (cofounder and CTO, PlaySesh) Glad to get on a call and tell you what it’s really like. Or read other recommendations from former colleagues →
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Updated September 2026.
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