About Me

A software engineer who loves crafting delightful experiences and products. Previously, I was the founder of Readlang and a staff software engineer at Duolingo. Currently tinkering around with a photo puzzle app called JigglePix.

Posts

• Back To Bootstrapping - Apr 5, 2022
• I'm Joining Duolingo - Feb 24, 2016
• 3 Years as a One Man Startup - Jan 4, 2016
• Portable and Ergonomic Dual Display Setup - Aug 3, 2015
• Readlang - My Bootstrapped Language Learning Web-App - Mar 22, 2014

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Projects

• JigglePix - A prototype web app which turns your Google Photos library into a puzzle game. In private beta.
• Duolingo Stories - One of Duolingo’s most popular features. I led the project from 2017 to 2019, creating the initial prototype as well as the production implementations on web and iOS.
• Readlang - A web-app and Chrome extension for learning foreign languages by reading. I created this and worked on it full time from 2012 to 2016. In 2017 I sold it to Duolingo.
• Duolingo Hoots - An experimental feature on the Duolingo website offering daily freeform writing practice. I led the project from 2019 to 2021. It's since been shut down but the technology has been used for writing challenges in other parts of Duolingo.

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