About

My work sits at the intersection of design, product and engineering.

The industry draws an arbitrary, increasingly-blurry line between the three, though I tend to position myself as a designer first, exercising product sense in user research and technical skills in delivery.

I'm currently contracting as a designer and frontend engineer, working primarily with early stage startups in regulated industries such as healthcare and cybersecurity.

In the past I was an engineer at Cado Security, a cloud forensics startup, where I worked on everything from automated vulnerability audits to performance profiling, accessibility and interactive data visualisations.

Before that I was a designer for MesslyID, a healthcare identity system funded by the UK's innovation agency. I worked directly under one of the investors, an early Apple and NeXT Computer alum, and received a practical design education.

On the side I'm working on a set of developer-friendly web accessibility docs matching common features to relevant success criteria, checks and techniques such that an inexperienced developer can conform to WCAG without having to be familiar with its full scope.

I'm half Polish, half South African, grew up in London, and now live in Lisbon.

I studied Medicine at University College London, and while I loved medicine as a practice I grew to see the point of care as a small part of a much wider problem space. I explored, and took on modules in political science, economics, and anthropology, conducted service design audits of hospital wards, and became part of London's digital health and indie hacker communities.

Working part-time at various startups, I pursued more formal training at Imperial College Business School, University of the Arts London, and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. I ultimately became a technologist, where I have been lucky to build a practice out of solving hard problems for interesting companies.

I eventually settled in Lisbon where (when I'm not at the computer) I run, surf, play TTRPGs, and occasionally entertertain thoughts of becoming an indie game developer.