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I'm a hybrid! Datavis junkie, typography, lettering, color, code. I like to ogle details, evince delight, and find that perfect word. "One moment, lemme sketch something…"

I direct a team which explores the future of developer experiences at GitHub. Previously: Heroku Data, Django core alumni.

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I'm open to

advising companies,

guest lecturing,

open source contributions,

beta testing new products,

speaking at events,

speaking on podcasts,

and live streaming.

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Sep 2022 - Present

Senior Director of Research, GitHub Next, GitHub

Apr 2020 - Sep 2022

Director of Research, GitHub Next, GitHub

Feb 2014 - Aug 2019

Principal MTS, Data UX, Heroku

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For the past few months, GitHub OCTO has been working on Copilot, and I'm bursting with excitement to finally share it with the world! My little crew of badasses did all the storytelling — landing ...

Been reading Frank Chimero's delightful little book, The Shape of Design. Misleadingly named, it is a beautiful essay about creation. Whether or not you are a designer, if you make things — this bo...

Sharing a little teaser of something we've been working on for a long time. Can't wait to share the actual thing with you all!

We launched the first public project from the OCTO Developer Experiences team: Flat Data. We wanted to explore what a git-native, dead-simple framework for data handling would look like — something...