I was born and raised in 1997 in Haarlem, the Netherlands. After falling in love with Apple's products and design, I started building and designing iPhone apps at age 13 during the iPhone OS 3 era.

I loved it, and it led me to Stanford and Silicon Valley through Apple's WWDC in 2012. Stanford became a dream, so I started working hard in high school, obsessing over getting in.

I studied Symbolic Systems at Stanford, 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.

I miss California, but love living in New York City where I'm now working as a product designer at Captions. Designing interfaces to bring AI video to the consumer is a lot of fun.