The through line
I have a Master's in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and a decade of experience building data systems inside large financial institutions. That combination sounds unusual. It is. It's also why I build the things I build.
IO Psychology is the science of how people behave in organizations — what motivates them, what derails them, how to measure the gap between who someone is and what their environment asks them to be. I got the degree because I was fascinated by that gap. I spent the next decade watching it play out at scale inside Wells Fargo and TIAA, and building the data infrastructure that tried to measure it.
The pattern I kept seeing: organizations make consequential decisions about people using systems that were never designed to understand people. Keywords matching resumes. Engagement surveys nobody reads. Risk frameworks that count activity instead of measuring outcomes. The tools were wrong for the problem.
So I started building different ones. JobPolaris came from watching people — including myself — struggle to find work that actually fit who they were rather than just what they'd done. DyadQuotient came from the same instinct applied to relationships. Both are grounded in validated research before a single line of AI gets written. The science defines the system. The technology executes it.
That's the through line. Not security. Not compliance. Human systems — and the tools that could actually help people understand them.