Design Systems & AI Tooling @ Yahoo

Designing systems that scale.Real value no fluff.

Leading design systems and agentic tooling at (formerly The Washington Post). Pioneering Spec-Driven Development (SDD), multi-platform contracts, and MCP infrastructure for an agentic world.

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Projects & Systems

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Product Lab & Experiments

Nural.news

AI Audio

Founder & Lead Developer of Nural News, an AI audio platform that turns latest headlines, blogs, and breaking stories into custom, daily podcasts.

Scrambled Letters

Game Design

A daily word game I made for fun that now brings back 800+ players every day. Find the five-letter word hidden in ten scrambled letters before you crack all five eggs. I drew the art, designed the game, built it, and made the sounds.

Essays & Conversations

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  • Detaching from Tomorrow

    Designers are being told to accept an AI future defined by speed and “execution support.” A case for pushing back: tracing our long slide into abstraction, testing the limits of language as a design tool, and demanding tools that capture intent.

  • Vernacular Design Systems

    Why one-size-fits-all frameworks lead to digital homogenization, and what vernacular architecture teaches us about building design systems rooted in local context.

Recent talks & podcasts