Projects
Figma
I currently work on AI at Figma. Notably FigJam AI—alongside
Natasha Tenggoro, Albert Song, Dan Meija, and others; "Suggest auto layout" alongside Shirley Miao, and others.
Other contributions—Figma Make (2025); Figma Slides (2024); First Draft (2024); FigJam
(2022-2024).
Mapbox
From 2021—2022, I worked at Mapbox, primarily creating Mapbox Search JS.
I also worked on the Map Design team with a
focus on Mapbox Studio and
open-source software.
Twilight
A personal app I made for iOS that checks first & last light. “Civil twilight” is also useful for flying drones—my original inspiration for the app.
DJI Research
From 2019—2021, I worked at DJI as an intern, then took a Leave
of Absence during the pandemic to work full-time within the DJI FlySafe
program. FlySafe restricts drone flights to authorized users (through
LAANC, the FAA program) and qualified entities.
In
2020, I initiated compliance with NIST 800-53 Medium (“FedRAMP”)
framework—authoring over 70 controls, fielding outside vendors, and
guiding the Eng Team towards compliant solutions.
Interval
With Eduardo Pratti, we made an hour logging app for Android circa 2019.
It was based around my experience as a part-time software
developer, & needing to manually submit invoices for my hours.
Earlier contributions (as an intern, contractor)
Research
In 2021, as part of my undergraduate program at Penn State, I
wrote a paper titled: “Performance Analysis of WebAssembly and JavaScript Engines
for Common Geospatial Algorithms.”
I rewrote part of TURF.js, a popular JavaScript geospatial library, in C++ & Emscripten
to compare performance characteristics. The research, per time
of publication, only showed statically significant benefits in
Safari.