I trekked to Everest Base Camp solo and freedive −43 metres deep. These are not unrelated to my work.
Trained as an architect at TU Wien, I spent years designing the physical infrastructure people move through — hospitals, airports, transit spaces. Somewhere in that work I realised the decisions shaping those spaces were often more broken than the spaces themselves. That's what pulled me into product design. Not a pivot. A zoom out.
6 countries, 3 continents, 4 languages. Moving through places where you don't know how anything works trains a particular kind of thinking. For six years in Vienna I mentored newly arrived immigrants through the higher education system — work that sharpened my instinct for the gap between how a system is designed to function and how it actually lands on the person inside it. Closing that gap is what I do, in architecture, in product, and in everything between.
