My journey started with Cydia tweaks and themes for jailbroken Apple devices. This later led me to create apps and websites for me and my friends during secondary school and started my first jobs in design studios and creative agencies.

In late 2018 I joined Source — a product design studio, where I learned most of my knowlege about user research, interactive and graphic design, team collaboration, prototyping, QA, and pairing with engineers. The same year, I wrote an essay on design systems, in which I studied their impacts on product teams and end-users.

After 3.5 years working on clients projects, I joined Specify in late 2021 and contribute to the scale of its platform, design token format, CLI, and API. I experimented a lot of ways to improve the design/engineering collaboration with the creation of proof of concepts, most of the time with plugins, standalone websites, and APIs of Notion, Framer, and OpenAI.

Spending a lot of time digging into engineers’ heads and passionate about how software and methods can impact the outcomes of our work, I progressively shifted my focus from design systems to developer experience, which later led me to joining Linear in late 2023.