Product Designer & Front-End Engineer
I’m Scott – a product designer and front-end engineer in Houston, TX. I prototype in code, sweat the pixels, and ship polished, AI-native products.
Selected work
From a streaming platform I’ve run solo for a decade to a stack of AI-native tools shipped in evenings – a sample, weighted toward the recent.
AI-native Founder · Product Designer · Sole Developer
A production, globally-distributed yoga video-streaming platform – live since 2013, designed, built, and operated solo.
Senior Software Engineer
First engineer at the company, and owner of the “Hello” internal tool platform interface. Oversaw the build of Nebula – the company’s first consumer streaming product – then shepherded its development after the initial developer left, while the company built a team to support it.
AI-native Solo · designed & built with AI
Turns a house-listing URL into a narrated video tour, generated automatically from the listing’s own photos.
AI-native Solo · designed & built with AI
A native macOS app that announces your GitHub Actions deployment status aloud – ambient awareness for the terminal-and-CI crowd.
AI-native Solo · designed & built with AI
A personal-finance dashboard that auto-manages household finances and real-estate holdings – a private tool built to replace a stack of spreadsheets.
AI-native Solo · designed & built with AI
An interactive game and lo-fi music-café website prototype – a playground for novel, ambient interaction patterns.
Front-End Developer · Thomson Reuters
Two React / Redux applications for legal professionals: one for searching and annotating legal reference materials, another for automating legal-document creation.
About
I started out in music and law – a degree from the University of Houston, a law degree from Boston College – and found my way to software the way a lot of the best builders do: by needing something to exist and refusing to wait for someone else to make it.
For more than fifteen years I’ve worked at the seam where design meets engineering. I’ve been the first engineer at a media company and grown a team there; I’ve been the founder, designer, and sole developer of a streaming product I’ve run since 2013. I don’t hand a spec across a wall – I prototype the idea in code, feel where it’s wrong, and iterate until it’s right.
What I care about most is the moment a piece of software stops feeling like something you operate and starts feeling like it’s on your side. That’s the line I hold every project to, and it’s most of why I still love this work.
How I work
The way I build changed when AI became part of it. These are the principles that survived.
I’d rather get something real in front of someone this week than perfect a mockup for a month. Code is my design tool – it’s where I find the edge cases and the feel.
AI is part of how I build now – every recent project here was made with it. It’s changed not just how fast I ship, but what I’m willing to attempt at all.
A lot of our UI conventions were designed for a pre-AI world. The interesting work now is inventing patterns that feel native to a collaborator, not a form to fill out.
The pixels, the copy, the empty states, the moment of latency – those details are how software earns trust. I sweat them, and I’ve learned how to keep sweating them while moving fast.
Experience
Nebula Entertainment & Broadcasting, LLC · Houston, TX (remote)
Mat2Mat · Houston, TX
O’Connor’s – a Thomson Reuters company · Houston, TX
Jutsu Creative, LLC · Houston, TX
Contact
I’m always glad to talk product design, front-end work, and building tools that feel good in the hand. The fastest way to reach me is email.
Full résumé available on request.
