I am a software engineer who designs, or a designer who engineers — both feel true. I spend weekdays shipping features for a production SaaS used by 50+ hospitals, and weekends tinkering with research on context engineering for LLMs. The two live in the same head.
The work I’m proudest of is the work that’s quiet. Clean APIs with honest names. Interfaces that don’t draw attention to themselves. A system a teammate can read, understand, and extend without me in the room. That’s the goal.
I think in components — both the React kind and the conceptual kind. I ship in small, confident commits. And I keep a notebook, because engineering and design are just two ways of writing the same thought down.