Hey there, I'm Zo. Welcome to my digital garden. I like building things, and I'm currently leading Product at the UK Government's AI Security Institute.

In my free time, I enjoy exploring the intersection of technology and geopolitics, vibe coding, reading, learning new languages, and travelling to Paris whenever my budget allows.

I do some writing as well, albeit not as consistently, but I'm working on being better at that.

First Product hire. Building products to adapt and evaluate LLMs on long-horizon agentic tasks in national-security adjacent domains, working with researchers, engineers and international government partners

Led product and engineering for a conversational language learning app powered by voice AI agents, directing a team of 11 engineers and designers and overseeing the entire end-to-end product lifecycle.

Raised >$3.4 million, founded a company in AI powered creative tooling, built out a team of 6 engineers and designers from scratch, and partnered with the world's largest creative enterprises.

Led a cross‑functional team to build AI-powered content understanding and moderation. Researched, engineered and evaluated machine learning systems to power podcast recommendations.

Researched and published on bias mitigation in automated content moderation systems.

Aided ML product efforts through data enrichment and analysis, and led data strategy for expansion into India.

Worked on policy and reputation strategy for EU elections and helped draft Google's responsible AI principles.