Work
I've spent over a decade in tech solving product questions that don't slot neatly into a single discipline — hybrid challenges straddling user experience, engineering, strategy, and beyond. In innovation teams and labs at Google, Datadog, and Meta, I've navigated high-ambiguity situations to shape product launches for millions of users.
Moving initiatives that can't gain momentum. Finding new angles that break deadlock to get work launched.
Meta Reality Labs
Every attempt to reconcile N visions for the Avatar Platform had ended with N + 1 visions. I worked across teams, generating concrete data with experiments to back up decisions and unbundling monolith work into a sequential roadmap, breaking debate cycles and finally launching.
Google Sheets
The team's prior UX approaches to ML features had fallen below expectations. I prototyped dozens of ideas for a new Smart Fill tool, finding the right feature behavior, not just visuals. Smart Fill's launch beat its user impact goal metrics for the first time for an AI feature on the team.
Getting new ideas from just-a-notion to customers' hands. Grounding rapid 0-to-1 development in usability and real user value.
Datadog Dispatch Agents
Companies were excited by the promise of AI agents, but deploying company-wide was an unsolved gap. I owned rapid design and frontend engineering, making 80-20 calls as product definition shifted, and shipping a product to users in four months.
Google Area 120
Logistics companies integrating GCP could get stuck turning big data into operational impact. In Google's internal incubator, I used aspirational demos of transformation to probe customers' needs, designing new dev tools that unlocked improvements in operational accuracy and anomaly detection.
Searching beyond the roadmap to find what's next. Shifting frames so teams are asking the right questions for the future.
Datadog Skunkworks
The pace of change in agentic tools makes it difficult for visions to keep up. Exploring new products by building-first, I turn emerging customer needs into new tools. Using our "living lab" to try these in practice evolves promising concepts into products and feature pillars the team builds on.
YouTube Visioning
Executives wanted creation on YouTube to be welcoming for Gen Z, who found it intimidating. Collecting user insights, parallel domains, and brainstorms, I helped the organization discover a more resonant frame — building connection via creativity — and led teams to unlock new creation tools.
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