As Head of Design at Neon, I architected and championed the design vision for Neon’s serverless PostgreSQL platform, positioning design as a strategic driver of business growth and product differentiation.

• Built a high-performing design team, fostering a culture of rapid iteration, high-quality, and user obsession.
• Established design principles and operational frameworks that transformed Neon into a design-led organization, embedding user-centricity and innovation at every touchpoint.
• Launched robust qualitative research programs, ensuring that customer insights directly informed product strategy and feature development.
• Pioneered the integration of AI into design workflows-leveraging tools like Devin AI for continuous UX improvements and V0 for accelerated prototyping-enabling the team to deliver at unprecedented speed and quality.
• Authored leadership articles on AI-empowered design practices and methods, positioning Neon at the forefront of next-generation product development.
• Led the strategic evolution of Neon’s brand, aligning marketing and product narratives to create a cohesive and compelling developer experience.
• Directly contributed to ARR growth by delivering intuitive, developer-focused experiences that drive adoption and retention.

Growing the future of API Gateways with Kong.

Lead for growth design initiatives, focused on creating the self service model for Kong konnect products.

• Designed the new Serverless Gateway offering for Konnect, releasing over a few months cycle to trial customers.
• Established growth team design culture and processes, worked with product partners to extend across Kong.
• Planned and developed growth team strategies to increase user activation and conversion with Konnect.
• Constructed new patterns to improve user adoption of Konnects Gateway offerings.

Growing the future of APIs within Postman.

Design manager forming a team of growth focused designers that help elevate the impact of Postman with their users.

• Leading a team of growth-focused designers and writers, elevating the impact of Postman with its users.
• Leading AI strategy for developer collaboration within an API first world.
• Executed multiple high-quality experiments globally, contributing to Postman’s achievement of surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2022.
• Developed the design team’s methodology, streamlined work processes, and defined success metrics, enabling scalable impact across the organization.
• Rapidly iterated on experiments to validate/invalidate assumptions and direct future plans.
• Mentored designers, fostering their professional growth and driving an overall increase in team impact.

Lead Growth Designer : Jan – June 2022

• Lead designer for Postman focused on how the platform can better engage and grow its user base.
• Collaborated with UX partners to conduct usability tests, validate hypothesis, and land features.
• Worked with Project Management and Engineering teams to fix major people pain points.
• Collaborating with teams across the Postman ecosystem to build stronger API development models.

Senior Product Designer – Enterprise Products

Implemented and developed toolkits to optimize team workflows.

• Lead designer for Machine Learning and Automation tooling. Aimed at optimizing organization workflows
• Established a vision and direction for team based on user and business needs
• Worked with PM and Machine Learning team to establish success metrics and MVP of designs.
• Facilitator for “Diversity and Inclusive product development”.
• Facilitator for “How growth design works”.

Lead Buyer Growth Designer – Facebook Commerce

Growing the future of global online commerce within Facebook.

• Lead designer for buyer growth focused on how the platform can better engage and grow its buyer user base.
• Collaborated with UX Researchers to conduct usability tests, ensuring features land.
• Worked with Project Management and Engineering teams to fix major people pain points.
• Collaborating with teams across the Facebook ecosystem to build stronger commerce engagement models.

Creating intuitive and meaningful solutions to complex Android developer scenarios.

• Lead UX for several Android design tool scenarios. (Resource management, Accessibility, and Layout inspector)
• Collaborated with UX Researchers to conduct usability tests, ensuring features land.
• Worked with Project Management and Engineering teams to fix major developer pain points

Created intuitive and meaningful solutions to complex cloud developer scenarios.

• Lead UX and visual designer for Azure SQL products
• Lead for team UX patterns, controls, and documentation
• Collaborated with UX Researchers to conduct agile usability tests and cognitive walkthroughs
• Worked with Project Management and Engineering teams to fix major customer pain points