Sixteen years of building community in Austin — hackathons, tiny houses, design challenges, and a 13-unit live-work development in Del Valle. Tiny Hacker House since 2010. Currently transitioning from startup-ecosystem building into affordable-housing real-estate development, in partnership with the City of Austin.
Long-horizon thinking applied to housing, mobility, civic tech, and the maker economy. Speaking, mentoring, and showing up where the future is being argued about.
Speculative · StrategicFrom geodesic dome structures to design-challenge briefs to outdoor classrooms — the kind of design that has to actually get built, in the open, on a deadline.
Industrial · SpatialWords, video, and stop-motion that move the work forward. Twenty years of writing into Austin's tech community and the maker culture beyond it.
Editorial · VideoVR, AR, MR, XR. Burning Man art installations. A 13.5-ft truncated icosahedron called WonderDome. Real-time graphics, projection, and the things you can only stand inside of.
XR · InstallationHackathons, makerfaires, design weeks, F1 weekends, SXSW years. Putting strangers in a room, giving them a problem, and watching them leave with friends.
Hosting · ConveningThe original community incubator. Hackathons, makerfaires, design challenges. The Texas chapter of the hacker-maker-tinyhouse movement.
13-unit modular live-work development at 8603 Alpine Dr, Del Valle TX. Affordability Unlocked Type 1 — 50%+ of units kept affordable. Live campaign.
The sixth edition of the design-challenge series, hosted at UT Austin in January 2026. Brief-driven design sprints with mentors and a real-world output.
2025 partner. Open-source software, hardware, and the long Texas tradition of building in the open.
A purpose-built outdoor classroom for 8,000+ girls in STEM — built with and for the next generation of engineers.
Members-only pool training facility in Austin. First feature film production was announced — currently in a planning phase.
To inspire, train, and connect the next generation of collaborative problem solvers to design and implement effective solutions for social impact around the world.
Available for design challenges, hackathon partnerships, speaking, housing-development collaborations, and community-experience consulting. Austin-based, willing to travel for the right project.
An occasional email — new builds, upcoming events, the next design challenge. No spam, no auto-DMs, just signal.