I grew up in in Cleveland, Ohio and Kansas City before n migrating to San Francisco for 11 years. Once Covid hit, I decided to move back to Kansas City to be near family.

I’m originally Iraqi and I have lived across the middle east in stints. I frequently visited Abu Dhabi and Dubai over the years to speak at and attend international conferences on the subject of technology in Education.

I’ve been a product designer in one way or another my whole adult life. Starting as a 14 year old I taught myself HTML and had numerous webpages hosted on free services like Geocities and Angelfire. I started a webdesign company called IntelliPage where I had my first taste of providing a design-based service to clients and friends.

I enjoy cooking, spending time with family and running trails. I recently started a side project in the form of a clothing brand called zaytoons.store which i work on in my spare time.