This is me.

I’m a 2nd generation Chinese-Indonesian-American born in Modesto, raised in the Bay Area. From a very young age, I was raised by a single mother, but my big sister and non-English-speaking Indonesian grandmother might have something to say about that.

I have an unconventional professional background that’s punctuated with periods of intense learning, experimenting, and making. After graduating from college, I started a business making websites and haven’t looked back. Fast forward about 10 years, I am a designer, product manager, founder, mentor, investor, general contractor, woodworker, and overall doer.

Today, I’m founder and board member at Bay Modular, California's first HCD-approved prefab housing solution built from up-cycled intermodal containers. After starting the business in 2018, it took nearly 2 years before our first product — the Solo ADU series — became an HCD-certified housing solution. Only 6 months after our release, our factory capacity is full at 10 in-progress builds and our waitlist is at 800+ and growing.

Concurrently, I am an active advisor and mentor to several companies and incubators including my time as a bi-annual batch mentor at Free Ventures, UC Berkeley’s leading, pre-seed startup accelerator.

Previously, I’ve worked as an ad hoc designer at a weather company, started a digital business card company (that launched to much fanfare at SxSW in 2011), helped a NY ad agency transform into a software consultancy, started my own software development consultancy, co-created a business in rental commissary kitchens with my mom, and created a community food truck market called Kono Food Alley (launched in 2019 and featured throughout local news).

I write regularly about productivity hacks inspired by personal events and climate solutions through consumer-initiated sustainability practices. I’ve become an increasingly climate-conscious consumer over the last few years and it has an outsized influence on how I spend my time and how I view policy, economics, and work.

When I’m not working, I’m going through life as a type 3, comfortably surrounded by a group of close friends or meeting new people on LunchClub, telling stories on our annual backpacking trip to Desolation Wilderness, and trying new local trails to bring our pup on around the Bay Area. I dabble in woodworking and have built a few small furniture pieces around the house and have been known as a pretty good sous-chef to my wife.

Be kind. Listen well. Tell stories. Start now.