Founder of independent design studio embedded in AI-native startups, leading 0-to-1 design and strategy sprints to deliver rapid MVP builds, market validation, and high-craft execution in ambiguous environments.

Worked with several VC-funded companies at seed and Series A stages, including:

* Gentrace (Series A, start-up building intuitive tools for LLM-based, agentic AI companies)

* Outtake AI (Series A, agentic AI cybersecurity for identity protection)

* Alta (seed, consumer AI personal styling fashion app)

* Public AI (non-profit, open-source service to make public and sovereign AI models more accessible, including launching Swiss multi-lingual LLM Apertus)

* Other companies in stealth

Angel investor in Alta, an AI personal stylist/fashion startup

Adjunct professor teaching the graduate course, MG-GY 8613 Product Design Studio.

Lead Product Designer responsible for end-to-end design for Foundry Analytics (focusing on no-code analytical and data visualization tools that leverage Palantir’s high-scale, highly complex data pipelining and analytical infrastructure) and various experimental geospatial analysis tools for Athena, the defense product organization.