Semgrep enables software developers and security professionals to easily detect and address security vulnerabilities in their code.

YIMBY Action advocates for policy change to allow for abundant, inclusive housing. I help accomplish that mission by applying my skills and knowledge in technology and design.

Technology responsibilities: Managing and improving our websites, data management, automations, and tech tools in order to maximize the impact of staff and volunteers, and to support membership growth and organizing goals.

Design responsibilities: Defining a visual brand that conveys the identity of the organization, and creating tools and templates for others to make brand-aligned graphics. Creating high priority graphics and advising on experience design best practices, including user research and information architecture.

Designed platform-level changes to enable more effective monitoring and troubleshooting across all product lines. Also worked on designs for an agile team iterating on key competitive features. Aligned short-term improvements with long-term vision. Created visualizations to relate data/metrics to user scenarios and root causes of problems. Synthesized research insights into stories to build empathy for users across the product organization.

As Head of Design, designed our interview process, hired, and managed a team of 5 product designers. Built cross-functional relationships with engineering, product management, support, strategy, training, and sales. Advocated for process changes to enable better design, such as increased use of analytics data, more iteration, and closer cross-functional collaboration.

Designed software tools for managing networking and IP devices (phones, security cameras, sensors). Did work end-to-end, including discovery research, low fidelity mockups and prototypes, usability testing, high fidelity mockups, CSS tweaks, etc. Worked on launches of two new product lines and many features, large and small. Simplified complex workflows and data. Advised and instructed junior designers, product managers, and engineers on research and interaction design.