Hi, I'm Mark (they/them) — a UX engineer, product manager, and creative technologist currently living in Dallas, Texas.
I build apps and websites designed to scale gracefully from single-user tools to expansive enterprise platforms. Currently, I'm a UX engineer at BP3, where I build and maintain an agentic coding harness that enables my UX designer team members on a national telecommunications engagement create full-fidelity prototypes using the production design system for usability testing, no static mockups required. I also deliver rapid UX prototypes across our client engagements, working primarily with LLMs to accomplish this.
Having a professional engineering title is a recent move: I spent the six years before it in UX and product design on that same engagement, shaping its the telecom platform through user research, product roadmaps, detailed wireframes in Miro, polished mockups in Figma, and highly-interactive prototypes in Angular, written manually. Building those prototypes convinced me that designers can get better feedback when usability tests are high enough fidelity that user can explore freely, so now I build the tools that make that possible.
Beyond my day job, I love to tinker with new and exciting web and mobile development stacks — Remix, React Router, React Server Components, Astro, Solid, Swift, Rust and more — and volunteer with Open Austin, working on civic tech initiatives alongside the Austin Public Library. Until moving to Dallas this spring, I also helped organize the Remix Austin Meetup.
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 around my neighborhood — as long as it's not 100ºF outside 🥵
Things I Say
Some refrains you'll often hear from me:
We can make the user experience of analog products better without making them digital.
Humans are a equatorial species who were never meant to live this far away from the equator. My ancestors were idiots.
"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
- Remix 3 is Remixable Remix Austin Meetup
- Vibe Coding a UX Prototype with React Router Remix Austin Meetup
- Mighty Morphin' Code Transformers Remix Austin Meetup
- Performant Websites with Remix Remix Austin Meetup
- How to Create Your Own JavaScript Framework Remix Austin Meetup