Work
I build developer tools for frontier AI at Google DeepMind. Previously: three database teams at Google Cloud. The thread: making powerful technology feel like it belongs to you.
google deepmind
Current work
AI Studio — Staff Engineer
Python · TypeScript · Gemini · Full Stack
The developer experience for Gemini. AI Studio is where anyone — developers, creators, curious humans — goes to prototype, build, and ship with Google's frontier AI models. Prompt playground, full-stack app creation with the Antigravity agent, multimodal experiments, code export. Making frontier AI feel approachable, not intimidating.
philosophy
How I build
Stay in the Code
Still writing code. Still reviewing PRs. The best product thinking happens when you're close to the material.
Neuroscience Trained
A psych/neuro background changes how you think about developer experience. Cognitive load matters. Intuition matters. The brain is the first user.
Products > Features
Does this actually make someone's life better?
Bridge Builder
Databases, AI, research — the best solutions come from connecting disciplines, not isolating them.
philosophy
How I lead
Grow People
My favorite part: when someone I mentored outgrows the role I hired them for.
Kill Bad Process
Process should enable. When it doesn't, cut it.
previously
Google Cloud (2021–2026)
Led engineering for three flagship database products
Cloud Spanner
Full-stack development for the world's first horizontally scalable, globally consistent relational database. APIs, services, and developer tools.
Cloud Bigtable
Building the platform that powers Search, Maps, and Gmail. APIs and tooling for petabyte-scale NoSQL.
Firestore
Engineering Firebase's serverless database platform. Real-time sync, offline support, developer APIs.
impact
By the numbers
From the Google Cloud era
highlights
Key wins
Generative AI Integration
Python · Gemini LLM · NL2SQL
Led generative AI integration into Cloud databases. Query your data in plain English. Built LLM testing framework adopted by central NL2SQL team.
Spanner Graph
TypeScript · Third-party Integration
Shipped graph visualization at Cloud Next. Complex third-party integration. Landed a strategic APAC customer.
Product-Led Growth
Full Stack · UX · A/B Testing
Redesigned Spanner trials. 32% more signups, 50% better conversion. One-click data loading, sample datasets, zero friction.
Oracle Exadata on GCP
UX Lead · Cross-functional
UX lead for Oracle partnership. No manager, aggressive deadlines, high stakes. Shipped it.
writing
Publications
Introducing Spanner Schema Insights
Read on Medium ↗Techniques for Improving Text-to-SQL
Read on Google Cloud Blog ↗Spanner in 2025: AI, Graph, and Beyond
Read on Google Cloud Blog ↗Methods of Computational Linguistics and NLP for Personality Psychology
Independent research bridging computational methods with psychological analysis.
journey
Career path
google deepmind
Staff Software Engineer
Building AI Studio — Google's developer playground for Gemini. The place where prompts become products. Transferred from Cloud because the most interesting developer experience problem in the world right now is: how do you make frontier AI feel like a natural tool?
google cloud
Tech Lead Manager → Staff Engineer
Three teams, three flagship databases (Spanner, Bigtable, Firestore). Led AI integration into database workflows. Shipped graph visualization, NL2SQL, product-led growth redesign.
ActionIQ
Software Engineer → Senior Engineer
NYC startup building customer data platforms. Ship fast, wear many hats, never lose sight of what users actually need. That's where I learned the best products come from understanding the full stack.
Mount Holyoke College
BA Computer Science & Psychology
Double major. Chaired ACM-W. Ran the CS society. Organized hackathons. Built robots in the M5 Makerspace.
toolkit
Skills & experience
AI & ML
Gemini · AI Studio · LLM Integration · RAG · NL2SQL · Prompt Engineering · Multimodal AI · Eval Sets · Developer Tools for AI · LlamaIndex · TF-IDF
Full Stack
React · Next.js · Angular · Flask · FastAPI · Pydantic · REST · gRPC · SOAP · Microservices · System Design
Languages
Python · TypeScript · JavaScript · Kotlin · Java · Scala · SQL · C
Cloud & Infrastructure
GCP · AWS · Hadoop · Terraform · Cloud Run · Gateway API · Load Balancing · Firebase · Spanner · Bigtable · BigQuery · Postgres
Data & Search
Spark · Finagle · Vector Search · Elasticsearch · Data Pipelines · SQL · BigQuery
Developer Experience
Building tools developers love. Vibe coding. Mentoring. Hiring. Writing PRDs people actually read. Making complex systems feel simple.