Hey, I'm Hawk (he/him).

I consider myself to be a lot of things with an elevator pitch that is forever evolving. Lately, I describe myself as a design developer.

I currently spend my days at Microsoft's Developer Division Design Studios where I support products such as VS Code, Visual Studio, and .NET. I use design and code to help build and evangelize some of the most beloved developer tools on earth and represents a balance of the creative and technical that I deeply enjoy.

But like... who are you really?

Yes, yes. I have a job. Who am I outside of that? Well, partially the same.

Hey, I'm Hawk (he/him and short for Hawthorne).

I live in the Seattle area with my wife (recently married!) and our dog Poppy. For the last few years we've solidly been in our hobby era.

In May 2021 I started climbing. I'd describe the experience the same way I often hear people describe yoga –– working my body and stretching what I think is possible. For the curious, I very occasionally post some of those climbs on instagram.

I also love watching/reading stories, have been learning/practicing music theory and guitar for almost 2 years, and have recently started to learn Spanish.

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This website is built with Astro. I was building my own web framework for awhile, but then discovered Astro does everything I want, and far better.

I occasionally use Figma to design parts of this website and create imagery for it. But far more often I just design with code.

This site uses a few different fonts. Seravek for title and body content, Monaspace Neon for code snippets, and a tiny bit of italicized Georgia in blog posts.

Last updated July 19th, 2024.