I’m a designer/developer hybrid living in Tel Aviv. I extract meaning from data at Heroku.

I’ve been a core developer and lead designer for the Django web framework since 2011. I’m also a committer on Requests, and I’m active in various FOSS communities as both a developer and a designer.

I often speak at conferences about subjects at the intersection of engineering and design. I delivered a keynote address at Djangocon US 2011 about designers and open source projects. There’s a list of my talks further down this page.

I designed the visual identities for various years of PyCon and DjangoCon. I'm proud to have helped organize these conferences and many local meetups, as well as mentoring startups as part of Google Campus TLV.

In 2013, I built Pushpin, an analytics service for location data. I also taught interaction design at the Shenkar School of Engineering and Design here in Tel Aviv.

In 2011–2012, I invested all my energy in Skills, which was a tool for modern software companies looking to understand their candidates in ways that resumes weren’t designed to do. It visualized candidate activity to provide a useful, humanizing snapshot of developers. It didn’t work out, but I’m still keen on getting back to it when the right moment presents itself.

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