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A new home for the work

A new home for the work

I spent six years across studios, an early-stage startup, and now a healthtech company. The work is scattered — in Figma libraries, in Slack threads, in product surfaces only a few hundred clinicians ever see. This site is the place where I get to talk about it on my own terms.

What I am trying to do here

I wanted three things from this portfolio.

A landing page with no fluff. A line about what I do. What I am listening to right now. Where to find the code. That's it. Most portfolios open with a hero animation that tells you nothing about whether to keep reading — I would rather earn the next click.

Work pages that actually tell the story. A logo and a one-liner is not a portfolio entry — it's a business card. For every company I worked at, I want to show photos from the room, the projects I am proud of, what it felt like to be there, and what someone I worked with thought of me.

A blog that respects the reader. Long-form, with proper typography, illustrations and diagrams where they help. Not a Medium clone with an estimated read time and a clap counter.

Why Astro

I write enough code to know what I like in a stack. Astro hit a sweet spot:

  • Pages are HTML by default, JavaScript only where I genuinely need it. The site stays fast and the build stays simple.
  • MDX in the blog means I can drop in components for illustrations and diagrams without leaving the writing surface.
  • View Transitions are first-class, so the navigation feels like a single app instead of a stack of static pages.
  • And Bun makes the install and dev loop quick enough that I'll actually keep writing.

What's next

The site is alive now. From here it gets filled in — real photos, more projects, more writing. If you stumbled onto an early version, the bones are what I meant them to be; the flesh just needs time.

Thanks for reading. If anything caught your eye — drop me a line.