About
Artist, developer, and UX designer based in Tokyo.
I'm an Applied Math and Fine Art double major, which is really just the short way of saying I think analytically and feel deeply, and that mix runs through everything I make.
Before freelancing I shipped product features in fintech as a PM and QA engineer, built full-stack tools for a UCSB research group, and ran data operations for cross-border trade. Different industries, same instinct: understand the system, then make it work for the people actually using it.
Now I get to fold all of it into one place, building things that are both beautiful and built to last.
Now
Right now I'm in Tokyo, working freelance as a web designer and developer and building things I'm proud of (most recently a trilingual travel site I designed and shipped end to end). I'm also looking for my next role on a team where I can do product, QA, or UX work in an English-speaking environment.
Off the clock I'm usually out on a hike, hunting down a restaurant I've never tried, or three episodes deep into a K-drama I swore I'd only watch one of. This summer the plan is to climb Mount Fuji, which feels like either a great idea or a terrible one. I'll report back.
Things I love
Traveling slowly, reading widely, and eating things I've never eaten before. A good workout, and a trail with a view at the end of it. I'm slowly working my way through the parks of Japan, where my ideal afternoon is a nap on the grass with the sun on my face, the wind in the trees, and every worry quietly filed under "later." I think in Chinese, English, and Japanese, which is occasionally useful and frequently chaotic.
Mostly I love the moment a messy idea finally clicks into something clear.
Background
Math and art, same brain.
Everyone treats math and art like opposites. For me they turned out to be one habit in two outfits. Math taught me to find the structure underneath things: why a layout feels balanced, why a flow falls apart, where the load-bearing idea is hiding. Art taught me that the structure was never the point. The feeling is.
Design and code did not feel like a pivot. More like the place where both finally asked the same question: what is the simplest thing that still means something?
