About Me

Me, at The Triangle in April 2024

Hi, I'm Mark (they/them) — a UX engineer, product manager, and creative technologist currently living in Austin, Texas.

I build apps and websites designed to scale gracefully from single-user tools to expansive enterprise platforms. Currently, I'm leading UX and product design for a national telecommunications company's construction platform as a consultant at BP3, balancing detailed wireframes in Miro, polished mockups in Figma, highly-interactive prototypes in Angular, and keeping product roadmaps clear and effective.

Beyond my day job, I love to tinker with with new and exciting web and mobile development stacks — React Router, React Server Components, Astro, Solid, Swift, Rust and more — volunteer with Open Austin, working on civic tech initiatives alongside the Austin Public Library, and help organize of the Remix Austin Meetup, a meetup for everything Remix (a Shopify company).

Cooking is my creative outlet, and over the years I've collected thousands of recipes and cooked hundreds of recipes, developing my own along the way. Baking sourdough is my latest culinary adventure.

In my downtime, I'm always seeking the next great TV show (recommendations welcome!), aspiring to play video games, or enjoying peaceful walks on Walnut Creek Trail — as long as it's not 100ºF outside 🥵

Things I Say

Some refrains you'll often hear from me:

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We can make the user experience of analog products better without making them digital.

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Humans are a equatorial species who were never meant to live this far away from the equator. My ancestors were idiots.

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"That's the way it's always been done!" is a bad reason to keep doing something.

Socials

I've tried to mostly divest from social media, but I still maintain some sort of a presence on a few platforms:

Talks