Xat /ˈeɪtoʊ/

Design Engineer

Building production-quality interfaces and AI-native products

I design and ship applied AI interfaces, workflows, and developer tools.

taught me to balance design intent, engineering constraints, and the messy realities of building

Writing

The overlap I keep returning to: product surfaces, frontend systems, developer tooling, and the tiny interaction details between them.

Chat surfaces, agents, orchestration, and treating intelligence as UX—not a bolt-on.

Architecture, performance budgets, and component systems that scale with the product.

Strict defaults, lint rules, and workflows that keep teams shipping safely.

Motion, micro-interactions, and the invisible details that make dense tools feel humane.