I like to make things better. I spend a lot of time designing meaningful experiences for people with a simple goal of adding value to their lives. I practice this craft with collaboration, an adaptable process, and a human-centered approach to problem solving.

2025 — NowMicrosoftPrincipal Product Designer - VS, VS Code, GitHub Copilot

2025 — Now

United States

Designing the future of software development across Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio — shaping the agentic development paradigm by designing for both humans and agents, and balancing user experience with agent experience.

Driving the evolution of Agentic Development Environment, by modernizing core experiences, reducing complexity, and bringing clarity and consistency across the IDE ecosystem.

Leading design for GitHub Copilot across Visual Studio and VS Code, introducing agentic chat, inline completions, debugging and diagnostic agents, .NET upgrade assistant, and ambient AI experiences that redefine developer productivity.

Serving as a subject matter expert in AI-first product design — integrating emerging capabilities (Model Context Protocol, tool-calling, custom instructions, memory) to create transparent, trustworthy, and personalized developer experiences across both IDEs, while knowing when to simplify or unship for clarity.

Building ecosystem-wide coherence across Visual Studio, VS Code, and GitHub, embedding accessibility, inclusion, responsible AI, security, and trust into every experience.

Providing creative design leadership — setting vision and raising the bar for design quality, while mentoring teams to operate with greater clarity, velocity, and ownership.

Evolving design practice for the AI era — helping teams move beyond traditional workflows to design in code, leverage AI effectively, and ship faster without compromising taste, quality, or craft.

2019 — 2025MicrosoftSenior Designer

2019 — 2025

Greater Seattle Area

Empowering software developers and their teams to achieve more by designing state-of-the-art developer tools. My current focus is on leading the design effort on AI-assisted programming with Copilot to help increase their productivity.

2015 — 2019Deloitte DigitalUser Experience Designer

2015 — 2019

Greater Seattle Area

I designed applications and responsive websites across diverse industries—healthcare, retail, consumer, and industrial B2B. Many clients were early in their digital journey, including one I helped move from having no technology presence to launching a web platform that expanded their reach and customer base. My work spanned culturally nuanced retail experiences, modern healthcare profiles, and digital transformations for traditional industries like waste management and chemicals. I partnered closely with designers, creative directors, project managers, and client stakeholders to deliver solutions that solved complex problems, elevated brands, and created meaningful user experiences.

2014 — 2014The Understanding Group, LLCInformation Architect Intern

2014 — 2014

Ann Arbor, Michigan

The Understanding Group is a consulting practice that makes use of Information Architecture to 'make things be good'.

As an intern I was a part of multiple projects. My major contribution was towards developing site-maps for complex websites using OmniGraffle and finding structural faults in existing site maps. I had a unique opportunity to work in a novel design philosophy in which special attention is given to the foundations of any information structure. I learnt a design process that focusses not only on the user but also on the business aspect of a product. I also explored the relationship of a Product Manager (one who delivers on the business) and a UX designer (one who understands the needs of the people).

2014 — 2014CooperInteraction Design Intern

2014 — 2014

As an Interaction Design Intern at Cooper, I worked on “Designing a Future Vision” for Federal Home Loan Bank, San Francisco. I was a part of the Goal-Directed design process practiced at Cooper. My contribution started from persona and scenario creation, ideation, sketching, creating a signature interaction and client presentations. My biggest takeaway was the user-centric design approach that believes in delivering delight to the people.