Teaching · Mentoring · Speaking

Lecturing.

Alongside building products, I've spent years in front of classrooms — teaching engineers how to build for the web and inviting students and practitioners to think harder about what technology should do for us.

From a full-stack bootcamp to universities and conferences, my teaching connects the craft of software to the science of well-being.

Principal Role
Principal Lecturer · Full-Stack Engineering

UCSD Full-Stack Bootcamp

Teaching the MERN stack to the next generation of builders.

As Principal Lecturer for the UC San Diego Full-Stack Bootcamp, I taught the MERN stack — MongoDB, Express, React, and Node.js — guiding students from first principles all the way through shipping full, deployed web applications.

I received one of the highest student ratings as a professor that the program's administration had ever recorded — a reflection of a teaching style built on clarity, warmth, and a genuine investment in each student's growth.

MongoDBExpressReactNode.js
University of California, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
Guest Lectures & Conference Talks

Beyond the classroom.

University of California, San Diego
UCSD — International Business

Creativity in Technology

A guest lecture for UC San Diego's International Business program on cultivating creativity as a core engineering skill — how the best technical work begins with imaginative, divergent thinking.

San Diego State University
San Diego State University

Humane Technology

A lecture at SDSU on humane technology — designing products that respect human attention and well-being instead of competing for it.

International Positive Psychology Association
IPPA

Positive Psychology Interventions, Re-envisioned as UX

A talk for the International Positive Psychology Association reframing evidence-based well-being interventions as user-experience design — translating the science of flourishing into the products people use every day.

Claremont University
Claremont University

Humane Tech: Temptation Bundling & Digital Blue Zones

A lecture at Claremont on applying behavioral science to digital design — using temptation bundling and the idea of digital “blue zones” to shape environments that make healthier behavior the default.

Let's Talk

Want me to speak?

If you're putting together a course, a workshop, or a talk at the intersection of technology and well-being — I'd love to hear about it.

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