I grew up with music and came to Princeton for psychology. Product turned out to be where my interests meet: connecting with people from very different backgrounds and interests, then getting them to build in the same direction.
Right now that means Hoagie products, a lab I started for non-CS students, and this past summer on Disney+ Search.
Currently
- BuildingHoagieCalendar (beta)
- Researchinghow 500ms of sound creates narrative
- ReadingThe Creative Act by Rick Rubin
- ListeningLa Source by Hasselmans
Case studies
Making Disney+ search results explainable. Four projects in ten weeks.→
Rebuilding Hoagie around event discovery. HoagieMail worked fine, it just wasn't good, which is a different problem.→
Dashboards for districts that had stopped logging in. 20 K-12 districts had ghosted and the CEO wanted more features.→
Teaching AI to students outside computer science. A Spring 2026 pilot for the students who get left out of campus AI classes, humanities, social sciences, non-CS STEM, etc.→
Side projects
- Unwrapped: pulls your Spotify history apart to figure out why you played what you played.
- Spotify MCP: 12 tools connecting Claude to Spotify. I built it for a workshop and kept using it.
- Music sequencing: a coherence metric for playlist order. It beat random shuffling by 39% across 114K tracks.
Blogs
- Aug 2026Why 500 milliseconds of sound creates entire narratives.
- Jul 2026Working with AI like it's a product sprint.
- Jun 2026Hong Kong, a harp, and how I ended up in product.
About me
Music was the first thing I was ever serious about. What I keep finding is that I love connecting with different kinds of communities, and building things that actually change something for them. Outside of work I play the harp, hike whenever I can find a trail, and log every new restaurant and dessert shop I try on Beli.
Making music with people is also how I ended up in the Princeton Katzenjammers, the oldest co-ed a cappella group in the Ivy League. I'm the president, and I've led the group on tour to Montreal, with DC and Korea coming up. This is what we sound like, recorded for our 50th anniversary.
Résumé at a glance Full version ↗
Education
Psychology & CSPrinceton
SML & OQDSMinors
Music Cognition LabCo-author
Work
Disney+ SearchPM intern
AnthropicClaude Builder Ambassador
CariinaProduct success
Leadership
AI Exploration LabFounder
HoagieHead of product
NY Tiger TrekPresident
