Experience:
Kotoba
(August 2025 - Present)
I'm doing mobile development for
Kotoba, a frontier speech AI startup in Tokyo.
- Helped release their world class on-device text to speech for Japanese
- Helped add a monthly subscription to their mobile app, which reached $200k USD ARR in just a few months
Procore
(July 2018 - March 2024)
I worked on
Procore for iOS, a project management app for the construction industry.
- Wrote the iOS subsystem that lets clients like Amazon customize the app
- Resolved over 50 unique high volume crashes affecting customers.
- Sped up the iOS build by ~20% (30 seconds) by spinning out code that never changes into a separate prebuilt binary
iHeartMedia
(December 2016 - October 2017)
- Implemented redesigns for browsing and playing podcasts
Musey
(July 2015 - October 2015)
Musey was a short-lived startup in San Francisco. I helped them create an iOS app for photo sharing.
Apple
(June 2005 - April 2014)
- Built most of the Siri streaming animation that was new in iOS 8
- Implemented some small UI redesigns for iOS 7
- Presented at WWDC in 2011 and 2012 on the iOS text input system
- Led development on keyboard dictation for Siri's initial release
- Made performance improvements so that Cut / Copy / Paste and text selection in iOS 3 were fast enough for the first iPhone
- Implemented part of Safari's Safe Browsing feature, which protects users from malicious content
- Maintained WebKit's WYSIWYG editing engine (which powers Mail) for 3 years