Wave-Particle · Product Leader · 0→1 Founder
Like light, I'm both — wave-particle, physicist-painter, engineer-designer.
I'm the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Grasshopper Kids — an education marketplace connecting K–8 schools with real professionals who teach their actual craft.
Before Grasshopper, I spent a decade at Google leading products across YouTube VR/AR, GCP, and early Android hardware. M.S. in Physics. Mom, wilderness lover, tennis player, artist.
Featured in Diversify: Female Founders in Focus at SFMOMA, May 2026.
Quit my PhD program when industry came calling, no regrets.
Directed Google's company-wide 20% Time program — evaluating and accelerating high-potential 0→1 projects.
Built Nexus Q and early Android devices from zero to launch. Six months in Tokyo as Chief of Staff to the EVP of Engineering.
Launched the Resource Manager API — the infrastructure layer that lets enterprise teams programmatically organize, govern, and control access to everything they run on GCP.
Led YouTube's first immersive VR/AR experiences — millions of users across Android, iOS, and Windows, and after, Meta Oculus headsets.
Hand-selected for a centralized team optimizing resource allocation and execution across all of Google.
Consumer marketplace sending specialty teachers — chefs, musicians, artists — directly to families' homes.
Pivoted from consumer to B2B schools. Zero to 100+ school partnerships and $1M+ ARR in two years.
Volunteer in the interpretation program at Muir Woods — inspired Rangers in the Classroom.
At Grasshopper Kids, we use AI as an engineering partner — moving at a pace a small founding team couldn't achieve alone.
The platform is AI-native end to end: LLM-powered tooling built directly into production workflows, agentic systems handling educator onboarding, compliance, matching, scheduling, and lesson planning. About 90% of operations run without human intervention.
Claude Code · GPT-5 · Gemini · Agentic AI Systems · LLM-powered automation
A drag-and-drop web tool for making vision boards — built for fun, made public. Fast, visual, no account required.
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Curated rotating art shows in Google's Mountain View lobbies, giving Bay Area artists a platform inside one of the most-visited corporate campuses in the world.
One-night art exhibitions in converted, borrowed, and repurposed gallery spaces across San Francisco. By displaying art in non-traditional environments for a limited time, the pop-up shows challenged the viewing experience — pushing the interaction between art and viewer toward intimacy and spontaneity. Salon-style shows featuring local visual artists including Greg Hinkle, Jess Wainer, and Simon Pyle.
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