JD
About

I’m a design engineer. Most of what I work on sits between identifying a gap in how a team works and building something to close it.

My current role is Senior Demo Experience Engineer at Klaviyo. I lead the Demo Experience Architecture team inside Solutions Engineering, where we build the internal tooling and demo infrastructure that revenue teams use when working with prospects. The day-to-day is a mix of engineering, product management, and direct support for SEs running live demos.

Outside of work I’m building two side projects. Trunkline is an MCP registry that gives an organization a single endpoint for all the AI tools and skills its teams have built. Dewr is a physical-world exploration platform organized around what you did somewhere rather than how you rated it. Both are early.

Newton / Holliston area, Massachusetts
What I'm Into
BirdingCooking

I bird. Mostly along the Charles River and at spots like Mount Auburn Cemetery and Horn Pond. Absolutely legendary local birding.

I cook most nights at home, usually high-protein and umami-leaning, and I’m comfortable improvising with whatever’s in the fridge.

My father runs Dewar Guitars, a small luthier shop in Massachusetts. I help with the website and social channels.

How I Think

I’d rather build the thing that makes ten other things easier than optimize the thing that’s already mostly working.

Visually, I lean early-modern: restrained, functional, and a bit optimistic about technology.

Questions I keep coming back to
·Where does context live?
·What is the user actually trying to do?
·What friction exists that nobody questions anymore?

The problems I find most interesting right now are at the edge of what AI can actually do outside of a demo or a lab. That’s where I want to spend the next few years of my career.

Where I'm Headed

I want to spend more time building software and less time explaining it. The next role I take should put me closer to what ships.

More product engineering
Design and code in one role
Ownership over what ships
Better systems, not bigger ones
Outside the Screen

Exploring New England, mostly coastal towns and mountains. Picking up photography. Lifting and running on a regular schedule.

If you’re working on something where product, design, and systems overlap, I’d be glad to hear about it.