I’m a Digital Product Engineer with a focus on creating engaging user experiences based in Los Angeles, California. My interests lie in building tools for likeminded creatives to synthesize new forms of expression, create new display paradigms for their work and to realize positive additions to the online ecosystem.
Senior software engineer ~ product | frontend ~ at Zora, a crypto-social-media platform. (2021 - 2026)
Previously worked independently as a designer / developer with collaborators in the music / art / advertising & film industries. I also like to make art, landscape & electronic sounds.
Sanzo Wada Color Combinations
In 2018 I built this interactive version of the seminal color theory book: Sanzo Wada’s Dictionary of Color Combinations. To my delight and surprise it got noticed and sparked further digital iterations in concurrence with the rising popularity of the recently republished book.
I used the tool to communicate color ideas to design clients, and building it was a fun exercise in rendering & navigating a beautiful data set.
ArenaTrainer
Designed and built an end-to-end application that converts Are.na channels into image datasets, trains custom FLUX LoRA models through FAL, and lets users generate and curate outputs with the resulting adapters.
Built the surrounding production system: tRPC and React Query APIs, queue progress and cancellation, MongoDB persistence, durable S3-compatible artifact storage, SIWE authentication, safety checks, rate limits, and SSRF-protected image ingestion.
Where the Sun Sets Blue
Interactive experience communicating the artist Felicitas Rohden’s experience at the Nasa HI-SEAS Mars simulation facility.
A collaboration between:
Concept and Creative Direction: Felicitas Rohden
Art Direction and Design: ALTR Studio
Development: Dain Blodorn-Kim
Music: Luke Calzonetti & EC BandHolly Dao
Decentralized auction web app with a collection of community created music using the Holly Plus AI voice tool. Built on top of the zora auction house protocol.
119 15×19 Paintings
Art project incorporating 119 15×19 Paintings, print and digital catalog.
Doge NFT Auction
Site designed and built with Zora to auction the original doge meme image. Built the public-facing auction experience on Zora’s V1 Auction House protocol as my first shipped project at Zora.
Client:Zora