Building infrastructure that democratizes complex systems

Two companies I've founded have been acquired — one now publicly traded on the NYSE. Brandcast, the enterprise no-code platform I co-founded, was acquired by TIME in 2022 and rebranded as TIME Sites — powering sites for TIME100, Fortune 500s, and other global initiatives. In 2025, TIME Sites was acquired again by Vev. Famo.us became Amaze.co, now a public company. These acquisitions show the lasting value of democratized web infrastructure — and how design systems can transform how global brands publish content. I continue to build with the same guiding principle: shipping foundational tech with long-term utility.

I earned both my undergraduate and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at UC Berkeley, with additional graduate studies at the Haas School of Business through the Master of Engineering in Management of Technology (MOT) program. My research was conducted under Professors Edward Lee and Babak Ayazifar. I conceived and developed Mathapedia , a platform for interactive mathematics education and documentation, created through a partnership between UC Berkeley and the American Mathematical Society. This platform generated over 350 pages of course notes for EE20 and EE120 at Berkeley—resources that continued to benefit students for more than a decade after their creation. Education has been a consistent thread throughout my career—from academic tools to developer documentation to public codebases.

I've founded companies that changed how the web is built—across design systems, database infrastructure, and blockchain development. While at UC Berkeley, I started Famo.us and Brandcast from my college apartment. As CTO of Famo.us, I transformed our early idea into a high-performance UI framework powered by a custom HTML5 rendering engine—part of an early wave of rendering and performance work on the web that predated React. At Brandcast, I led product and secured our first client and also landed our first six-figure deal with WME/IMG. The platform enabled enterprise web publishing with no-code tools for Fortune 500 companies. These ventures raised over $100M from investors like Marc Benioff, Reid Hoffman, and Naval Ravikant. This journey ultimately led to Constructive—an open-source developer stack powering millions of Postgres databases and used by major platforms like Supabase. These startups pushed boundaries in how teams design, develop, and deploy software — and several have gone on to be acquired or integrated into major platforms.

I have a history that led me to a blend of sales, design, and engineering. At the age of 15, I designed a 2,800+ sq. ft. home that was selected and built by the Ann Arbor Student Building Industry Program. At 18, I launched my first business selling aftermarket parts for cars. By 24, I was simultaneously teaching advanced computer graphics at the Academy of Entertainment Technology in Los Angeles while working as a Digital Artist and Instructor for Side Effects Software, where I trained internal teams at Apple, Sony Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, and Digital Domain. At the 34th Annual ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, I presented original research on algorithmic methods for the procedural generation of urban environments and cities. These early milestones built the foundation for my work in design systems, simulation, and developer tooling.