Retool

I joined Retool in 2021 to help build a completely new product — Retool Workflows. The team was just 2 people — me and a full-stack engineer. I drove product and interaction design, iterated on the core flow primitives (API blocks, logic, control flow, etc) and built most of the final Workflows UI in React.

• retool.com/workflows

Since then the team has grown significantly and Workflows has become a key part of the Retool platform. The point was always the same: move quickly, get honest feedback, and build automations engineers actually want to use.

Early on I prototyped several control-flow and transformer blocks in the Godot game engine because its canvas/graph APIs made it fast to experiment with runtime behavior.