I'm Riley. By day, I design products — mostly the kind that have to earn people's trust before they'll actually use them. By pretty much every other hour of the day, I'm still the same kid who wanted to know how everything worked, poking at whatever's in front of me until I understand it, or at least until I've made a satisfying mess trying.
These days that curiosity has a finished BB-8 to show for it — motors, Bluetooth, a small mountain of 3D-printed parts, and a droid that actually rolls on command. I liked the build process enough to give a Tech Talk about it back when I was at Disney. When I'm not building something, I'm probably deep in a video game, planning a trip somewhere I've never been, or spending time with my critters, who I hope adore me half as much as I adore them.
I work hard because I genuinely love this stuff — new problems, new tools, new excuses to learn something I didn't know yesterday. I try to bring that same energy to a team: low ego, high curiosity, quick to laugh, and genuinely happiest doing great work alongside people I can learn from.
