Engineer · Founder · Product & design thinker

I build useful things for people.

I’m Loren—an engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded Nava. I care about products, organizations, and systems that make consequential work clearer and more human.

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Marker cityscape of the waterfront and Bay Bridge near the Ferry Building — By the Ferry BuildingSan Francisco · 2013

building things
is one way of
looking closely

Selected work

Nava · Cofounder

Building at the intersection of engineering, product, design, and institutions.

I helped start Nava and shape it as both a company and a way of working: bringing technical rigor, product judgment, and care for the people a system ultimately serves.

That experience continues to inform how I approach new products, early-stage organizations, and difficult problems without obvious answers.

Working beliefs · Field notes

How I try to make things.

Make the complex legible.

Good engineering and good design both begin by finding the essential shape of a problem.

Build for actual people.

Products and organizations work better when human needs are treated as requirements, not edge cases.

Pay attention.

The consequential details are often the quiet ones. Notice them early and keep looking.

Away from the screen

I draw places I want to remember.

Landscapes, cityscapes, interiors, and architecture—usually in marker, with watercolor and oil along the way. It’s a quieter kind of making.

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Warm gray marker landscape of Tunnels Beach in Kauai

Watercolor of a narrow whitewashed lane in Ostuni, Italy

Marker drawing of a wood stove inside Melton Cabin

places have
a way of staying

A little about me

Engineer by training. Founder by experience. Always a maker.

I’m interested in the full life of an idea—from the first rough sketch to the people, systems, and decisions required to make it real. This site is a place to share some of that work, along with the interests that shape how I see it.

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