A life in
the making.

01 / THE BEGINNINGS

People first. Software followed.

I studied neuroscience at UC Davis. My work eventually took me into software, but the interest in how people think stayed with me. A product is full of small decisions about what someone notices, understands, and does next.

That’s the connection I see between those two parts of my life. Building software gives you a very practical way to work on those questions. You put something in front of people, and find out where it makes sense—and where it asks too much of them.

02 / INTOMOBILE

Before everyone had a smartphone.

Before the iPhone arrived, I built IntoMobile. Mobile phones were becoming something much more interesting than phones, and we were covering that change as it happened.

IntoMobile grew to 3.5 million unique monthly visitors. It was a different kind of company from the software businesses that followed: stories, readers, and a community following a rapidly changing industry. But it was already about the same intersection of people and technology.

03 / MEDIAFIRE

A simple idea can take you a long way.

In 2006, I co-founded MediaFire. The premise was straightforward: sharing a file should be easy. Not a complicated sequence of sign-ups, waiting, and figuring out which button to press. Just a way to get something from one person to another.

My work spanned product strategy, user experience, and brand identity. We bootstrapped the company, and MediaFire grew to more than 100 million monthly users. A simple interaction—a file and a link—became part of a very large number of people’s lives.

It’s easy to tell that story as a number. The more interesting part, to me, is the product underneath it. Someone has something they want to share. Someone else wants to get it. How much can you take out of their way?

That question still shows up in what I build. Growth changes the size of the problem. It doesn’t make the small experience at the center of it any less important.

04 / FAST.IO

You don’t stop seeing things to build.

With Fast.io, I’m working on another part of the same problem. Sharing a file is one thing. Giving a team a useful place for its work is another. There are people, conversations, context, and all the little pieces that make a file useful.

The connection to MediaFire is real, but a new product needs its own answers. Teams work differently now. AI changes what software can do with the information inside a workspace. There’s more to consider than where a folder lives.

I’m also building smaller tools. Alloy came out of working with multiple AI coding CLIs and subscriptions. It brings those tools together, with opt-in Jev routing and independent model perspectives. Some things I build are companies; others simply make the next day’s work a little easier.

05 / OUTSIDE THE BROWSER

The rest of the picture.

I grew up between Ithaca, Edmonton, and Loma Linda. These days, home is Austin, Texas, with my wife and our two kids.

A company bio gives you the projects and the numbers. It leaves out most of the ordinary days: spending time with family, getting outdoors, taking a picture you’ll be glad you kept. Those belong in the story as well.

This site is a place for both. The work I’ve done, what I’m building next, and a few things from the life around it. Still curious. Still building.