I’m Carl, a product designer and engineer.

I like figuring out what something should be, then my hands dirty in the build to help make it real.

I’ve spent the last fifteen years working across payments, wallets, ecommerce, design systems and new technical products. Sometimes that’s been with a small team trying to get an idea off the ground. Other times it’s meant helping a larger organisation make its product, design and engineering work fit together better.

Over the last fifteen years I’ve worked with startups, scale-ups, public institutions, and brands including Sky, NowTV, Sony Pictures, and others. I’ve mentored designers and engineers in Toronto, Beirut, Dubai, and Manchester, and taught workshops on privacy-preserving tools in Berlin.

More recently, I co-founded a data-sharing company and designed and built Factory, a music app used across web, desktop and mobile. I’ve also led product design for complex platforms, helped founders turn loose ideas into working products, and mentored designers and engineers across teams in Toronto, Beirut, Dubai and Manchester.

I tend to be happiest somewhere between the idea and the finished product. Talking to people, working through the interaction, making prototypes, writing some code, and helping the team decide what’s worth shipping.

Outside work, I like saving mid-century furniture, rebuilding old cars, and green