Coaching 11U volleyball taught me that mastering fundamentals allows you to break the rules strategically. I approach product design the same way.
Experience
2025 — Now
2025 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
Leela is a wellness booking and shop platform (like ClassPass) where every class booking and product purchase automatically contributes to nonprofits creating community wellness spaces at no additional cost to users.
2024 — Now
2024 — Now
San Francisco Bay Area
Presidio Pain Relief is a concierge pain management practice founded by Dr. Robert Savala MD (30+ years experience), specializing in spine, back, neck, and sports injury treatment with direct-pay care model.
• Built complete healthcare website from scratch using Framer, increasing user engagement by 161% (from 33 seconds to 1 minute 26 seconds) and driving 29.2% organic search growth in 30 days
• Reduced patient objections and clarified urgency of care by conducting limbic mapping interviews with 4 patients across key demographics, incorporating neuromarketing insights into trust-centered messaging strategy
• Achieved excellent accessibility scores (90-100) and HIPAA compliance by designing with WCAG 2.1 and ARIA standards, validated through PageSpeed Insights audits
2024 — 2025
2024 — 2025
San Francisco Bay Area
Polyaura is an AI startup building conversational agents with private memory capabilities, specializing in privacy-focused interfaces that enable personalization and memory retention across personal, work, and social contexts.
• Increased weekly user engagement by 14% and achieved 70% retention by designing AI-powered chat interface and knowledge discovery flows from concept to launch
• Reimagined AI interface and built design system on Storybook.js, defining product strategy for AI chat, personalization, and memory features
• Improved AI interaction quality and safeguarded user trust by defining conversation design guidelines, usability testing protocols, and privacy-compliant feedback loops with founder and engineering
• Raised user satisfaction from 3.5 to 4.3/5 by owning design system and brand voice, introducing engineering handoff standards that reduced UI inconsistencies and accelerated iteration
• Established design culture through 10-week mentorship program for interns, introducing design critiques that improved decision-making speed and achieved 4.95/5 team satisfaction
2023 — 2024
2023 — 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
Tripmix is a travel marketplace app, enabling creators to monetize travel content through shoppable itineraries and affiliate marketing.
• Launched AI-powered travel itinerary app from concept to App Store, securing 419+ downloads and 3.44 daily sessions per active device in 8 months using Figma, Bravo Studio, and Xano
• Reduced bounce rates by 18% by designing iOS and Android interfaces through rapid prototyping and iterative usability testing for collaborative planning and offline features
• Guided leadership strategy by conducting competitor analysis and 57 user interviews, uncovering 13 positioning strategies and defining 11 customer segments for product roadmap
2023 — 2023
2023 — 2023
San Francisco Bay Area
Education
University of California, Davis