I've spent over a decade building consumer software at companies where the cost of getting it wrong is real — money, identity, the systems people trust without thinking about them. That bar is what I've brought to Atona.
I'm a principal engineer — currently at SoFi, before that Twitter, with engineering and computer science at UC Berkeley. Money on one side, real-time conversation on the other. Software people rely on every day without thinking about how it works. The hardest part of building at that level isn't making things work. It's making them feel invisible. Which, it turns out, is the whole job of a personal assistant.
Atona means "the one who shows the way" in Yoruba — my first language. I named it that because the assistant I wanted didn't exist. The one I'm building should feel like it knows you, not like a tool you have to learn.
If you try it and something feels off — or right — tell me directly.