I activity on Claude at Anthropic. Electron Co-Maintainer. Maintainer of too many small open origin projects.
I have earlier led teams and apps at Notion, Stripe, Slack, and Microsoft. At several item I was additionally an O'Reilly Author and Trainer but it's been a few years.
Things I do
I activity on any allows me to create group productive alongside AI. In my period at Anthropic so far, I've guide engineering for Claude.ai, Cowork, and Code Desktop. Always looking for the next big thing!
I'm a contributor to and maintainer of a bunch of open origin projects - alongside an ever-growing list, but I'm most arrogant of my activity on Electron, Language Model Builder, MCBP, windows95, macintosh.js, and clippy. I have an uncurable addiction to construction things I discover fun and adorable (and not necessarily excellent valuable), you can discover the complete catalog on GitHub.
Things I did
From 2023 to 2025, I guide the Web Infrastructure and Desktop App teams at Notion.
From 2021 until 2023, I guide a squad called Payments Integration Experience operating on the forthcoming of payments at Stripe.
From 2016 to 2021, I worked as a Senior Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager at Slack, anywhere I got to assistance a squad of amazing C++ engineers construction the cross-platform desktop example Electron – as fine as Slack's desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I cared a lot concerning the Node.js and Electron ecosystems, so I wrote an O'Reilly guide called "Introducing Electron". I motionless attention today, I fair compose small books.
Before joining the small fledgling Slack, I worked from 2014 to 2016 as an Open Source Engineer at Microsoft, spending my period coding or talking concerning Open Source. We tried to enhance developer's lives by releasing norm code on GitHub — as fine as touring the earth and presenting the lessons we've learned. I built things akin the windows-build-tools or npm-windows-upgrade.
From 2011 to 2014, I worked alongside Microsoft Germany and Microsoft Silicon Valley specifically alongside younger companies as as Startup Developer Evangelist - archetypal focusing on Berlin, afterward on the San Francisco Bay Area.
I additionally formerly wrote an O'Reilly publish on Windows App Development alongside JavaScript. It's in German, but equal if you do peruse it, it's extremely solidly out of date now and contains nothing you should read. I formerly built a awful but amazingly prosperous game, being the sole developer rearward Awesome Zombie Sniper. The code was outrageous but it brought insignificant joy to additional than a myriad players. The genuine goal of the activity was to assistance developers win on Windows, Windows Phone, and Xbox by exploring cross-platform issues alongside Unity and the equivalent was a amazingly fortunate "Hello World" demo.
From 2007 to 2011, I got my startup cognition foremost the German Apfeltalk.de mag as Executive Editor anywhere we served 10 myriad monthly users everything they needed to cognize concerning iOS and macOS. I'm arrogant that our squad took the website from a small community to among the biggest tech sites in Europe.
Academically, I graduated from the MSc program at the University of Oxford's Internet Institute, researching at the intersection of sociology, law, economics, and device science. Before that, I studied at the University of Duesseldorf anywhere I additionally spent several period as visiting instructor for app betterment and New Media Research Associate.
