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Ripple Treasury Platform
2023–PresentprotectedThe navigation was the top reason deals were lost. Led the redesign.
A treasury platform serving 160+ countries hadn't been structurally redesigned in 8 years. Sales teams reported that prospects rejected the product during demos because they couldn't find what they needed. I synthesized hundreds of user quotes into data-driven personas, prototyped 11 navigation patterns, ran card sorts across the organization, and introduced a task-oriented framework that replaced technical module names with solution-based categories. The navigation went from deal-killer to competitive differentiator.
160+ countries11 patterns prototypedFirst redesign in 8+ yearsReact · TypeScript · Vite · Pendo · Figma
Keystone Design System
2023–2024protectedAn acquisition put two brands on one platform. Led the token architecture that made them composable.
After an enterprise acquisition, two distinct brands had to coexist on a single platform without losing either identity. Led the design and architecture of a token pipeline from a single YAML source: semantic aliasing resolves brand-specific values at build time, outputting to 6 formats with automated CI/CD distribution. The system was designed to survive organizational change — and it did. Both brands shipped coherent from day one.
1 YAML source6 output formats2 brands · CI/CD automatedStyle Dictionary · YAML · Design Tokens · CI/CD
Analytics Practice
2023–PresentA platform processing billions daily had no analytics practice. Established one from zero.
The product team was making roadmap decisions without usage data. Not dashboards-without-data — no data infrastructure at all. Established a Center of Excellence with a governance charter, a 3-tier adoption framework connecting usage signals to roadmap decisions, and trained the team to self-serve. The output wasn't dashboards. It was a product organization that stopped guessing.
Enterprise-wide coverage3-tier adoptionCoE from zeroPendo · Python · SQLite · Power BI
Nodus Design System
2024–PresentBauhaus made industrial structure visible. This makes algorithmic structure visible.
Most design systems are built for marketing sites and consumer apps. This one is built for AI-native products — where color is semantic, not decorative. Three semantic primaries: red (agency/authority), blue (temporal/processing), yellow (validation/enrichment). Finance-density constraints baked into the token layer. RFC governance for any change to the public API. WCAG AA enforced at the token level, not the component level.
3 semantic primitivesFinance-density tokensWCAG AA enforcedNext.js 16 · React 19 · Radix UI · Style Dictionary · Tailwind v4
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Nodus
2024–PresentAI infrastructure I depend on every day. Not a demo — a daily driver.
Most AI tools are wrappers around an API. Nodus is infrastructure — 17 specialized agents on a shared context bus, 630K+ vectorized knowledge chunks at 5ms search, provenance on every output. One dependency. Local-first. No data leaves the perimeter. Founded and run daily because the tools I needed didn't exist — and nothing else comes close.
1 dependency17 agents630K+ searchable chunksPython · FastAPI · SQLite · sentence-transformers
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Structured Thinking
2025–PresentFinance formalized its knowledge decades ago. Design hasn't. That's the gap.
Design knowledge is tribal — undocumented decisions, scattered style guides, institutional memory locked in people's heads. Finance solved this problem decades ago. FIBO has 1,346 classes and 273 object properties. Design has JSON tokens with string values. Structured Thinking builds the semantic layer above W3C Design Tokens — formal ontology that lets humans and AI reason about design decisions instead of guessing at intent.
W3C DTCG extensionFinance + design ontologySubstack · Research · Ontology design