The bench and the line.

I founded Illuminious, an NPI engineering firm built for hardware startups. We take a product from architecture and industrial design through mechanical, electrical, DFM, prototyping and tooling — with production in Shenzhen and Batam that we own and operate, not broker. Because the line is ours, a DFM finding does not become a negotiation between two vendors. The repositioning is deliberate: a US-facing engineering partner, not another catalog of factory services.

I host Future Factory, a six-day, application-only tour of the hardware supply chain. Twenty founders at a time, ten-plus factories and labs, with the owners and line engineers in the room. I was a founding member in December 2025 and run it now; the next cohort is December 6–11, 2026.

Most weeks are split between two rooms: the hardware community in the Bay Area — founders and engineers with a prototype and a deadline — and the Shenzhen ecosystem, where the people who actually build the thing work. The distance between those rooms is where most hardware schedules are won or lost, and living in both is the job. AI hardware and embodied AI are where I think the next decade gets decided, in atoms rather than parameters.

For the short version: email me and I'll send a bio and headshot.