Profile
I care deeply about correctness and quality,
and building software that's a delight to use.
Under the hood: testability, readability, maintainability.
In what users see: the look and feel each product
deserves, polished until it shines.
I've worked closely with designers and product teams for most of my
career, comfortable giving feedback and proposing ideas of my own.
Semi-pro beach tennis. Training is as satisfying as
competing: physical conditioning, drilling the same shots until
they're automatic, then refining the details.
Music composition and production. The engineering
side of music: recording, mixing, mastering tracks. Taking a raw
idea and refining it until the output is exactly right.
Projects
Flight controller and physics sim, in Rust
Built from first principles, following aerospace conventions (NED/FRD
frames, cascaded PID architecture). A deep-dive learning project written
in idiomatic Rust, exploring quaternion kinematics, real-time control,
and a type system that enforces physics units at compile time.
Written by hand. No AI access to the source.
Stack: cascaded PID · compile-time unit types · egui
Solo product: iOS, Android, backend, design
A companion app for players and fans of beach tennis: tournaments, draws,
results, player profiles, and rankings. Free for the community. I built
it because I love the sport, there was no usable way to search ITF
tournaments and rankings, and I wanted to try Swift on the server. Beyond
the iOS work, the project took me deep into Vapor on the backend, Jetpack
Compose on Android, CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Xcode Cloud, Docker), and ops
on Fly.io with managed PostgreSQL and Redis.
Android version currently in beta.
Stack:
iOS (UIKit, SwiftUI, SPM) · Android (Kotlin, beta) ·
Backend (Swift Vapor, PostgreSQL) · Design (Sketch)
1v1 multiplayer Minesweeper, in Rust
1v1 real-time multiplayer Minesweeper, built entirely in Rust across three
crates: a core engine (rules and board, also playable solo), a multiplayer
layer (1v1 logic, offline), and the online layer (Axum server, WebSocket
matchmaking). The egui frontend compiles to WebAssembly with no
JavaScript, and the same UI runs as a native desktop client. Deployed on
Fly.io with Docker.
Stack: egui · WASM · Axum · WebSockets · Docker · Fly.io
WordPress for iOS
(now Jetpack),
used by roughly 1 to 2 million active users.
Redesigned the notifications screen, built a new media section, etc.
Ran a full accessibility audit and overhaul: implemented new
accessibility features (full Dynamic Type support, etc.) and modernized
the app to take advantage of the latest Apple accessibility frameworks.
Gutenberg Mobile,
the open-source library behind the WordPress block editor on mobile,
still in production in the Jetpack iOS app. Part of the initial team,
from early research and architecture through first release. Sole
engineer responsible for bridging the new React Native editor library
with the existing native iOS app, with the integration generic enough
for any other native app to adopt. Stayed on after launch, contributing
to the library's React Native codebase.
Tumblr iOS
(135M monthly active users). Started with bug fixes
and stability work across the app, then shifted to community-facing
features, including being the main iOS engineer on
Threaded Replies,
a long-requested feature.
Gravatar SDK for iOS,
an open-source Swift SDK for Gravatar avatars and profiles, currently
used in production by the WordPress Jetpack iOS app. Wrote nearly all
of the
DocC documentation,
including tutorials. Also built the
Gravatar iOS app
end-to-end; the project was discontinued before release.
