I'm Mariana. I design software for problems that don't have a settled shape yet.

For more than a decade that meant real-time 3D and spatial computing at Autodesk and Unity, then decentralised storage at Pinata, building tools for people whose work had no reference point yet. Now it means AI agents, which have the same property and higher stakes. A button does the same thing every time. An agent decides what to do, takes minutes to do it, and is sometimes wrong.

One question has followed me the whole way through: how do you make powerful technology feel useful, understandable, and human? It was interesting when the hard part was a shading graph. It is more interesting now that the software can act on your behalf.

Most recently I co-founded Soulbound Labs, where I led product and design across our own products, Clawcraft and Keylark among them, and partner work on AI products. I worked in the production codebase rather than beside it, directing agents to implement while I owned the design, the positioning and the copy. I have since wound the studio down, and I am looking for my next role: a team where this kind of work can reach more people.