I was born and raised in Haarlem, the Netherlands. I always wanted to be a pro skateboarder until I fell in love with Apple's products and design. I started building and designing iPhone apps at age 13 during the iPhone OS 3 era.

It led me to Stanford and Silicon Valley through Apple's WWDC in 2012 (s/o to John Geleynse). Stanford became a dream, so I started taking high school seriously.

I studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford ('19), focusing on Human-Computer Interaction, and loved every day of it.

After graduating, I started a vc-backed consumer social studio, working on different social applications in the audio and photo sharing space. I spent 4 years working & thinking about it day & night, and learned a lot. Big s/o to my investors, mentors and family.

I miss California, but love living in New York City. I now work as a Staff Product Designer at Mirage (fka Captions) designing & prototyping AI video products.