(Credit: Keller Holmes)
I'm an independent app developer and writer. My latest app is Nebulous Notes, an iOS text editor for Dropbox. You can see the rest of my apps here. I'm also working on a book about self-improvement called Dear Charlotte.
Available for speaking gigs. Email me.
Notable Projects:
Appearances
- Keynote speaker at Hallmark's Trends Week Conference (2012)
- Undisclosed Discovery Channel appearance (2012)
- Short film "#Zombies: Followers of the Dead" (2011)
- Panels on education and technology with Sen. John Kerry and Lt. Gov. Gray Davis (1999)
- TechTV host (9 episodes) on San Diego local access TV (1998)
- How I learned to motivate others (Book Excerpt 4/2011)
- What's it like getting DNA test results (2/2011)
- 8 life-changing results from meditation (2/2011)
- How I would re-design Facebook and Twitter (6/2010)
- 20 Things I Don't Like About the Droid Phone (12/2009)
- Which of our own closely held beliefs will our own grandchildren by appalled by? (5/2009)
- A droll summary of conservative Bernard Goldberg's book, 100 People Who Are Screwing America (7/2005)
- Dear Charlotte: A Life of Self-Improvement (end of 2012)
- Should I Date Someone Who?: The Two Chis Principle for Finding The One (summer 2012)
- Nebulous Notes, a text-editor for Dropbox (featured three times by Life Hacker)
- The Creative Whack Pack (featured twice by Apple)
- Tarot and Tarot Pro, the best-selling tarot apps on iOS
- Rave Light (see catchy video)
- 3D Porch is the No. 1 3D-Photo sharing site, and was featured by CNN
- RealOrFake3D.com is a handy list for separating the real 3D films that were shot/rendered natively in 3D from the fake ones that weren't.
- A Prison Population Graphic that shows how America is NOT the land of the free.
- Anti-Semitism in Europe
- Most cited books on Human Relations from Ask.MetaFilter Q&A
- Most cited books on Work & Money from Ask.MetaFilter Q&A
- A flow chart explaining the Tangled Web of Syriana.
- What is The Perfect Album, according to Plastic, a web community.
- I created some free-form blogs in excel.
- My go2 flash demo was played on CBS MarketWatch
- Adobe "Design Award" Winner in ThinkQuest '98 for EgyptWorld ($20,000 scholarship)
- Finalist in ThinkQuest '97 for The Sciences Explorer ($1,000 scholarship)
- Initial selection in the Slashdot re-design Contest
- Design Engineer on The Sims: Life Stories, which received PC Gamer's Editor's Choice
- I've painted abstract acrylics, one of which was on the cover of a political magazine.
- Took Mutual Mobile from 20 to 40 employees in its early growth stage. It's now the largest mobile consulting company in the world.
- Stanford President's Scholar and Bachelors in Mathematical and Computational Sciences
Biographical Tidbits:
- 29 years old
- My dad's from India, my mom's from Philippines.
- I have an older brother.
- They live in San Diego, where I was raised
- Currently live in Austin, TX
- Spent 2000-2006 in Silicon valley
