About

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

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

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

Most recently, I led product design at Cado Security through its pivot from digital forensics to security operations. Following its acquisition by Darktrace, I now lead design for their Cloud and Email products.

Prior to that I was an engineer at Cado, working on everything from automated vulnerability audits to interactive visualisations, accessibility compliance, and performance profiling.

Earlier, I was a designer for MesslyID, a healthcare identity system backed by Innovate UK. I worked directly under one of the investors, an early Apple and NeXT Computer alum, and received a hands-on, pragmatic design education.

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

I studied Medicine at University College London. While I loved clinical practice I grew to see the point of care as just one 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 design training at University of the Arts London and Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design. I ultimately became a technologist, building 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 entertain thoughts of becoming an indie game developer.