Design technologist and design engineer with deep experience shaping advanced user experiences across web, mobile, TV, and emerging AI-driven platforms. Work centers on building high-fidelity prototypes, production-grade interfaces, and multi-surface systems that merge design craft with engineering rigor.
Experience
2025 โ Now
2025 โ Now
San Francisco Bay Area
Shaping front-end architecture and prototyping for Alexa multimodal UX and Alexa Developer UX, creating AI-native experiences and new interaction models that support both developers and end users.
Developing advanced VUI and conversational interaction patterns for end customers, enabling more intuitive multimodal Alexa experiences.
Building custom AI-driven developer tooling and prototyping workflows, including systems that enable vibe coding for developers and design technologists, improving iteration speed and design-engineering collaboration.
Pioneering AI-assisted prototyping methods that make LLM-based exploration accessible to designers and cross-functional teams, allowing them to contribute directly to early concept development.
Leading the evolution of the Alexa Developer Design System using ShadCN, Radix UI, AI-SDK, and token-driven theming to deliver consistent and scalable cross-platform UI.
Architecting multi-surface developer experiences across Web, Chrome Extension, and VS Code, ensuring cohesive interaction models and shared design system foundations.
Experimenting with generative AI and multimodal agents to reshape developer workflows through features such as root-cause exploration, automated fix planning, and interactive tool-call surfaces.
Designing and implementing component libraries in Storybook, integrating design tokens, theming modes, interaction patterns, and AI-native components such as transcripts and tool cards.
Partnering with designers, engineers, product managers, and AI teams to define and standardize emerging paradigms for voice, intent modeling, debugging, and agent orchestration.
Delivering high-fidelity prototypes, user flows, and proof-of-concepts that validate new ideas for Alexaโs next generation of developer and consumer experiences.
2022 โ 2024
2022 โ 2024
San Francisco Bay Area
In my role as a Staff Product Design Prototyper I worked on a wide range of UX/UI projects across different products and device types. My responsibilities were multifaceted, involving the creation and refinement of high fidelity prototypes and user facing production apps, using design skills as well as advanced technical skills to achieve the desired outcome.
โ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ผ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐: Utilized advanced tools, such as ReactJS, ReactNative, SwiftUI, ChatGPT, Mapbox, to create high fidelity prototypes that either simulated real-life experiences, or helped explore new technologies, designs or UIs.
โ ๐จ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต: Worked with Research and Design partners I build high fidelity prototypes and validate various user flows and UX through User Research.
โ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ป๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐: Collaborated closely with Design and Engineering teams to enhance the UX of the Cruise Mobile App by implementing engaging animations, smooth transitions, and driving the adoption of innovative features. I actively contributed to the production code, resolving complex interface challenges to ensure a seamless user experience and improve overall functionality.
โ ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: Acted as a crucial bridge between the engineering and design teams, to help adopt new technologies, to ensure design integrity and and help with creative solutions with challenging or unfeasible technical problems.
โ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฆ: Contributed to the development and maintenance of a Design System for internal tools and mobile. Collaborated with engineering teams to develop and maintain reusable code components using Storybook.
โ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฌ: Improved designers' productivity by developing and maintaining custom tools and workflows, ensuring design processes remain efficient and well-integrated into the pipeline.
2021 โ 2022
2021 โ 2022
San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on Amazon Honeycode beta project to:
โข Help designers prototype ideas before building them into the product.
โข Working with Engineers and PMs to find ways to reduce UX and simplify complex product flows.
โข Worked with the Engineering and Design teams to help build and maintain Storybook based Design System.
โข Helped incorporate smooth transitions and animations into the product.
โข Facilitated conversations with engineering to ensure clear and effective translation of concepts and requirements.
2016 โ 2021
2016 โ 2021
Los Gatos, California, United States
Working with designers, product managers and consumer analysts to explore, design and build high-fidelity software prototypes for multitude of TV devices, mobile and Web. Helping develop new experiences in the Netflix app.
โข Building flexible, data driven and multilingual prototypes using React to rapidly explore different concepts
โข Help conduct remote and in-person usability research
โข Explore and develop product ideas
โข Building internal tools
โข Closing gaps and building bridges between engineers, designers and PMs
2009 โ 2016
2009 โ 2016
Working on Netflix app for tens of millions of Netflix devices, including Smart TVs, Game Consoles, and set-top boxes.
โข Worked on all areas of the Netflix application, including the gallery, player, transitions, etc;
โข Worked as a lead UI engineer on Netflix experience on the AppleTV device;
โข Built AB tests to develop new features based on core metrics;
โข Helped localize and internationalize UIs for the global audience;
Education
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science - BS
City College of San Francisco
Certificate
City College of San Francisco