Beyond the pixels.
I didn't start in UX. My foundation is a degree in Digital Enterprise Management — where I learned to read a product through a business lens — and several years of freelance web design and development, building and shipping live sites for 10+ clients in HTML/CSS, React, Webflow, and WordPress.
That path is exactly why I think I make a stronger product designer. I can tie a design decision back to a business goal, and I can build the thing in the browser instead of handing off a static mockup. (This whole portfolio is hand-coded by me, no page builder.) When I talk to engineers or stakeholders, I'm fluent in both rooms.
Now, as a Master of Information student at the University of Toronto, I'm pairing that practical background with deeper research craft — interviews, usability testing, and design systems — to design products that are intuitive, defensible, and grounded in how people actually behave.
When I'm not deep in Figma or a code editor, I'm usually capturing the hidden corners of the city through my lens, unboxing the latest tech gadgets (💸), losing hours in a simulator game, or at the gym.