About / San Francisco
I'm Joel.
Product designer and applied AI systems researcher.
Originally from Rochester, New York. I’ve lived in Tokyo and now call San Francisco home.
Explore my work
What I do
Designing how
systems work.
Over the past decade, I’ve designed products across solar energy, fintech, property technology, and large-scale e-commerce at Amazon.
Today, I focus on how AI systems behave when they move beyond analysis and start making operational decisions. I build working prototypes to explore how those decisions can be controlled, audited, and reproduced.
That means working across product design, systems architecture, and applied AI research, from the interface people use to the behavior underneath it.
I’m the inventor on four U.S. patents related to applied AI systems, focusing on governance, deterministic execution, and reproducible AI decision infrastructure.
Outside of work
Music, language,
and making things.
Guitar came first.
I’m a former musician and a self-taught guitar player. I was accepted into Berklee College of Music and Musicians Institute.
Watch on YouTube ↗︎A language I taught myself.
I studied Japanese independently and passed the Japanese Language Proficiency Test N2 in 2017. It’s still one of my proudest achievements.
My artwork
Inspired by music and movies.
Some artwork I’ve made around the things I enjoy.
