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I’ve spent over a decade simplifying the complex and technical so people can get things done - genomics, internal tools, databases, cancer data, music, live video.

01 Head of Design · 2024 — 2026

Seqera

A genomics pipeline can cost six figures, run for weeks, and fail half the time - and most biologists can’t run one without waiting on the rare colleague who codes.

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02 Advisor · 2024 — 2025

Mob

I advised on design, product, strategy, hiring, and operations.

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03 Founding Designer · 2022 — 2023

Dynaboard Acq. Figma

Internal tools are where a company’s real operations live — and where teams wait months on engineers who have better things to build.

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04 Founder · 2020 — 2021

Startup

I started a foodtech company from zero. It never hit product-market fit.

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05 Sr. Designer & Eng → Design Manager · 2017 — 2020

MongoDB Nasdaq: MDB

I was hired to incubate MongoDB App Services.

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06 Founding Product Designer · 2014 — 2016

COTA

Cancer data is a mess: every hospital records it differently, so outcomes can’t be compared.

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07 Sr. Designer & Engineer · 2013 — 2014

Saavn Acq. Reliance

South Asians are one of the largest music audiences in the world, and in 2013 nobody had built streaming for how they actually listen.

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08 Web Designer · 2011 — 2013

Livestream Acq. Vimeo

Before everyone had a ‘go live’ button, Livestream built streaming for scale.

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01 Head of Design · 2024 — 2026

Seqera

A genomics pipeline can cost six figures, run for weeks, and fail half the time - and most biologists can’t run one without waiting on the rare colleague who codes.

As Head of Design for the entire company, I led product design, brand, and design engineering for all our portfolio products - including helping pitch, ideate, and build Seqera Co-Scientist, our AI platform - as we went from Series A → B.

I wore a lot of hats - led AI fluency workshops across the business, product operations, shepherded a data-driven culture, brand strategy, and helped integrate an acquisition.

samples + data runs pipelines INTERPRET · ITERATE Bench scientist wet lab · can't code > Bioinformatician dry lab · the terminal Results read · decide
Fig. 1 How the science runs. The wet lab makes the samples; the dry lab runs the pipeline; results loop back to interpret.
reads ACGTACGT · 1,240,000,000 S1 S2 S3 FastQCQC TrimTrim Galore AlignSTAR Mark dupPicard QuantifySalmon MultiQCreport BAM QCRSeQC
Fig. 2 A single run is a deep graph. Every sample fans out through dozens of containerized steps — QC, trimming, alignment, dedup, quantification.
SEQERA CO-SCIENTIST MultiQC report ↗ Studios RStudio · etc seqera compute 80 tasks/s Seqera 640/1000 RUNS 3,042 samples/m ACGTACG Nextflow the pipeline YOUR COMPUTE ON OFF AWS GCP Azure
Fig. 3 Seqera and Co-Scientist’s core value prop. Samples stream in; Nextflow pipelines run as jobs against Seqera; compute runs on your cloud or ours; results land in Studios and go out as MultiQC reports.
Seqera Platform Overview
Seqera AI RNASeq Walkthrough
Seqera AI Debugging a run
Seqera AI Home
Seqera AI Pasted query
Seqera AI Edit dataset
Seqera AI Running query
Seqera Pipelines
Seqera Containers
Seqera AI CLI
Seqera.io Home
Seqera.io Platform
Nextflow.io Home
Nextflow Summit Stage
Nextflow Summit Bag
Nextflow Summit Lanyard
Nextflow Summit Sticker
Nextflow Summit Cookie
Apr 2026 Seqera Co-Scientist ↗ Mar 2026 Seqera AI CLI ↗ Sep 2025 Seqera AI in Pipeline ↗ May 2025 Seqera AI Pipeline Mode ↗ May 2025 Seqera Managed Compute ↗ May 2025 Seqera raises $26M Series B ↗ Oct 2024 Seqera Nextflow IDE ↗ Oct 2024 Seqera AI ↗ Oct 2024 Seqera Studios ↗ Aug 2024 Seqera acquires TinyBio ↗

02 Advisor · 2024 — 2025

Mob

I advised on design, product, strategy, hiring, and operations.

The team hit #1 in the UK App Store and increased revenue 4× (six to eight figures) in a year.

Mob Cooking a recipe end to end
Mob Discover
Mob Adapt Recipe
Mob Recipe
Mob Cooking mode

03 Founding Designer · 2022 — 2023

DynaboardAcq. Figma

Internal tools are where a company’s real operations live — and where teams wait months on engineers who have better things to build.

Dynaboard was a low code WASM-powered WYSIWYG app builder. We turned a database connection into a working, governed app in about a minute. I was the solo designer on every surface. Figma acquired the tech in 2024.

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Fig. 1 What we were solving for. Most companies’ real operations living in one incredibly messy spreadsheet, with many hands editing, no owner, and no source of truth.
MySQL PostgreSQL NoSQL GraphQL Spreadsheets Warehouses 48,210 rows Dynaboard BUILT IN SAML SSO Authorization Deployments generates → app.dynaboard.com Data Engineering Operations ● real-time collaboration
Fig. 2 Dynaboard’s core value prop. Point it at any data source — Postgres, a warehouse, a spreadsheet — and get a real internal app with SAML, SSO, authorization and deployments built in, that data, engineering and operations teams can edit together in real time.
Dynaboard Full Journey Walkthrough
Dynaboard AI Query → Component
Dynaboard AI SQL — Code Refactoring
Dynaboard AI Splash
Dynaboard Onboarding Step 1
Dynaboard Onboarding Step 2
Dynaboard Post-Activation
Dynaboard Cmd-K Omnibar
Dynaboard Omnibar with AI
Dynaboard Page Templates
Dynaboard End-user Design Systems — Modal
Dynaboard Authz
Feb 2024 Figma acquires Dynaboard ↗ Aug 2023 Dynaboard AI Auto-fix ↗ Aug 2023 Dynaboard AI for SQL ↗ May 2023 Dynaboard AI ↗ Apr 2023 Multi-page Apps & Workflows ↗ Oct 2022 Private Web Apps ↗

04 Founder · 2020 — 2021

Startup

I started a foodtech company from zero. It never hit product-market fit.

I learned firsthand what founders lose sleep over, and how to decide with no runway to spare.

05 Sr. Designer & Eng → Design Manager · 2017 — 2020

MongoDBNasdaq: MDB

I was hired to incubate MongoDB App Services.

We built Triggers, Access Rules, and a lot more. I integrated two acquisitions, built and led Growth and Education, and hired across the org as the design team grew 7 → 34. Reported to the CTO.

Jun 2020 MongoDB Realm GA ↗ Jun 2019 Atlas Triggers — ZDNet ↗ Apr 2019 MongoDB acquires Realm — TechCrunch ↗ Nov 2018 Stitch updates & Mobile GA ↗ Jun 2018 Stitch general availability ↗ Jun 2017 MongoDB launches Stitch — TechCrunch ↗

06 Founding Product Designer · 2014 — 2016

COTA

Cancer data is a mess: every hospital records it differently, so outcomes can’t be compared.

I helped invent a way to classify and anonymize oncology records into something analyzable, then designed the platform that turned it into treatment decisions.

Aug 2016 CNA patent: digital classification — CLP ↗

07 Sr. Designer & Engineer · 2013 — 2014

SaavnAcq. Reliance

South Asians are one of the largest music audiences in the world, and in 2013 nobody had built streaming for how they actually listen.

I founded, designed, and built the flagship Android app with a small team of engineers, and grew it past 5M new monthly listeners.

Dec 2014 Saavn Radio launch ↗ Oct 2014 Saavn Android hits 10M downloads ↗ Feb 2014 Saavn Pro Lite — MediaNama ↗ Feb 2014 Saavn Music Feed for Firefox ↗ Jul 2013 Saavn Android Pro — The Next Web ↗

08 Web Designer · 2011 — 2013

LivestreamAcq. Vimeo

Before everyone had a ‘go live’ button, Livestream built streaming for scale.

As a young designer I touched all of it — the site, the apps, and the Broadcaster, and a hardware product down to the packaging.

Jan 2013 Broadcaster LTE — Engadget ↗ Sep 2012 New Livestream & iOS app — TechCrunch ↗ Apr 2012 Livestream Broadcaster — The Verge ↗