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<aside> <img src="/icons/keyboard-alternate_lightgray.svg" alt="/icons/keyboard-alternate_lightgray.svg" width="40px" /> Engineer-Journalist building marketing platforms and messaging for breakthrough science and technology companies.
I'm a marketing specialist who works with science and tech companies for whom technical accuracy and compelling storytelling are equally crucial in their content platforms and messaging. With an engineering background and journalism expertise (WIRED, Smithsonian Magazine), I help companies transform complex innovations into resonant narratives for well-defined audiences.
Alongside my consultancy practice, I'm currently writing my debut space science nonfiction book forthcoming with Hachette.
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Ginkgo Bioworks
Problem: This post-IPO synthetic biology company needed to communicate synthetic biology, a field so advanced that it’s often indistinguishable from science-fiction (coding DNA?), to policymakers, investors, potential customers.
Solution: To complement their ongoing marketing effort, I partnered with their scientists and marketing team to strategize a synthetic biology nonfiction book publisher. For it, I led everything from branding through budgets and selection of first six titles.
Pipe
Problem: This rapidly growing fintech startup needed to establish a strong writing culture for its all-remote tech teams, and also to build its reputation as a place where developer talent thrives.
Solution: I worked with the CTO and engineering leads to understand their needs and develop an internal writing culture. Alongside their marketing team, I established an engineering blog for target developer audience. For this project, I owned the content pipeline from end-to-end.
Stripe (Increment magazine)
Problem: This late-stage fintech powers much of the financial infrastructure of the internet, and wanted to build its leadership in software development practices.
Solution: I led an international reporting vertical for their software magazine Increment (”New Yorker for geeks”, as Kara Swisher called it) and wrote technical case studies including on Taiwan's government platform, containerization implementations, and accessibility-focused web components. For Increment, I also worked as contributing editor.
Stripe (Stripe Press)
Problem: This late-stage fintech wanted to lead in nurturing the overall internet ecosystem that it helps support by freely sharing ideas for tech, scientific, and economic progress.
Solution: For Stripe Press, I worked as editor, directly with the Head of Publishing to discover and assess manuscripts, identify bright voices, and bring books across a variety of fields to market. Some published titles I supported include Scientific Freedom, Working in Public, and Scaling People.
Hachette (Forthcoming debut nonfiction space book)
Problem: In 2017, I reported and wrote a narrative nonfiction piece for *WIRED,* which was one of its most-read of the year. This is the story of three women who helped India complete a Mars mission, and has to be expanded into a compelling book for a science-curious “general” readership.
Solution: Currently, I’m writing a narrative nonfiction based on 100+ interviews and ground reporting, balancing human interest with scientific accuracy, in a story that spans from 60s small town India to near-present day. (Literary agent: Anna Sproul-Latimer, Neon Literary.)
🛰️ Strategy-Through-Execution of Distinctive Content Platforms
I love to lead and own complete content initiatives from concept and strategy through production and to impact, as I have done for clients across growth stages and industry domains.
🎨 Brand Story Development and Strategic Positioning As an investigative journalist within the company, I can help uncover what it truly stands for and translate that into an authentic and resonant brand voice, story, and messaging.
🛠️ Producing Compelling Customer Stories and Case Studies
Conducting meaningful interviews is a core skill of mine, and I can convert these conversations into compelling case studies, social content, and multi-format customer success stories.
🧪 Communication of Complex Science and Technology
With an engineering-journalism background, my expertise is in explaining breakthrough engineering, scientific research, and emerging technologies to audiences we carefully define and understand. I have direct experience in multiple domains: space (Hachette book), biotech (Ginkgo), fintech and developer platforms (Stripe, Pipe).