Engineer and founder with 12 years of experience building AI-powered products, specializing in
real-time streaming of AI-generated audio and video. Served as a core engineer on the original Apple Vision Pro
team, co-inventing the foundational gaze-and-tap interaction model for visionOS. Founded two venture-backed
companies; currently co-founder and CTO at Button Computer (YC W26).
Work Experience
Company Name
Button Computer (YC W26)
Employment Dates
October 2025—Present
Title
Co-Founder & CTO
Location
Redwood City, CA (Remote)
Created Button, a wearable hardware device for instant, intentional access to voice AI (launch video).
Built an audio pipeline optimized for sub-second latency, integrating custom ESP32 C++
firmware, Bluetooth LE transport, and WebRTC.
Company Name
Odyssey
Employment Dates
February 2025—September 2025
Title
Member of Technical Staff
Location
Santa Clara, CA (Remote)
As the first product engineer on the team, deployed a first-of-its-kind interactive world
model (demo).
Architected and implemented the full application stack, including a React frontend, a
FastAPI
backend, and a PyTorch-powered world model inference service.
Company Name
Skyglass
Employment Dates
November 2021—February 2025
Title
Founder
Location
Boulder, CO
Created Skyglass, a virtual production app enabling Hollywood-grade visual effects on iPhone
using AI and Unreal Engine in the cloud (demo video).
Led a 3-person team, scaled the app to 95K downloads, secured $700K in funding, and
graduated from Techstars NYC 2024.
Built the full application stack (iOS, backend, and cloud render service) and
integrated ML models for background removal, environment generation, and relighting.
Company Name
Apple
Employment Dates
May 2015—October 2021
Title
Software Development Engineer
Location
Sunnyvale, CA
Founding engineer on the Vision Pro project.
Co-invented the visionOS gaze-and-tap user interface; named inventor on five
patents.
Served as a technical leader on the Reality
Composer team from first concept to successful launch.
Company Name
Metaio (acquired by Apple)
Employment Dates
January 2014—May 2015
Title
Research Engineer
Location
Plano, TX
Integrated novel depth-camera tracking and reconstruction research into the leading AR SDK
used by more than 100K developers.