Led design on Communities products and shaped new surface areas focused on recognition, discovery, and developer identity.

First design hire and early employee.

Collaborated with Brian (design lead) on Lists, a way to organize starred repositories. I supported the internal socialization of the idea and designed the dotcom experience. In the near term, Lists is a categorization and curation feature. In the long term, Lists could evolve into custom feeds or collaborative curation.

Led shaping and redesign of new user sign up.

Designed the experience for creating, displaying, and reaching goals on Sponsorship profiles. Users could set a goal for an aspirational sponsorship amount or number of sponsors.

GitHub Sponsors (led by Kat) enabled developers to receive funding for their OSS work. I led the design and initial onboarding process that allowed organizations to participate in the Sponsors program.

Led shaping and design; we introduced a README.md as a “secret” feature that could be added to the user profile. With this canvas, developers could be more creative, playful, and expressive in how they presented themselves on GitHub.

Led shaping and design on Gist-Playground, an experimental project aimed to introduce live collaboration, runtime, and a social ecosystem to Gists. Iced.

A very experimental project that explored a web-based IDE. Iced.

We designed and shipped contextual user hovercards. This unlocked the ability to understand a user's contribution and participation history within an organization or repository at a glance.

Creating art and small batch goods, powered by my love for retro video games and franchises.