# Carlo Liquido > Design Agency Founder & Executive Director | Building Tech and Community in Hawaiʻi | Social and Cultural Entrepreneurship Educator Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/carlo Aloha, my name is Carlo Liquido, and was born and raised in Hawaiʻi. I’m a Principal Product Designer with 10+ years of experience spanning consulting, startups, and major tech companies. Currently, I lead Lady Bandit Studios, a product studio committed to crafting impactful solutions that prioritize people and the planet, ensuring they endure for future generations. I lead a non-profit called Piʻikū Co. aimed at building the tech pipeline in Hawaiʻi. Formerly, at Shopify, I developed self-serve tools to equip new entrepreneurs with the knowledge and insights to scale their ventures. As lead designer at healthcare startup Zenysis, I helped governments tackle the world’s most pressing development challenges. I earned my Economics degree from Brown University and hold a Masters in HCI and analytics from UC Berkeley, where I served as an adjunct professor teaching full-stack development. At Nalukai, I create curriculum and facilitate participatory design methods. A few of my focus areas and technical skills are as listed: • Product design, UX research, Design system and Visual language, UI/Visual design, Wireframing, Rapid prototyping • Figma, Sketch, InVision, Adobe CC (Illustrator, After Effects) • Data visualization, Front-end engineering, Data analytics, NLP, Spatial Analytics ## Work Experience ### Principal Product Designer @ Lady Bandit Studios Jan 2021 – Present | Honolulu, HI We are a product and brand design agency that fuses excellence and creativity, centered on people and the planet. Helping clients such as Idea42ventures, Mele, Dispatch Track, Zenysis, Eluvio, and Hawaii Department of Education. ### Executive Director @ Piʻikū Co. Jan 2023 – Present | Hawaii, United States Piʻikū Co. recruits, trains, and deploys new local tech talent alongside experienced professionals to design and build technology projects for value-aligned organizations. Within 2 years, we've hosted 4 cohorts with local accelerators and top legacy brands in Hawaiʻi, graduating 44 emerging tech alumni who were paired with seasoned professionals with 10+ years of industry relevant experience. 75% of our alumni have found paid roles within 3 months, with those employed securing an average of $44/hr. Currently working toward operational sustainability by end of 2026—building the funding, capacity and infrastructure needed to maintain competitive staff compensation and execute 3 fully funded cohorts annually. ### Senior Product Designer @ Shopify Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Leading Product Design effort to help entrepreneurs grow their business with 2-day delivery ### Senior Product Designer @ Zenysis Technologies Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Lead design on the Product team. I set the vision and processes for bringing design to the forefront of a global company. I lead Design System team to design and engineer the Zenysis design language and design system. ### Product Designer @ Zenysis Technologies Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Product Designer @ Zume Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Experience Designer @ Autodesk Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area I am responsible for the user research, UI design, testing of prototypes, and launch of new and existing data products and experiences for the Advanced Analytics team. I like to drive collaboration through participatory design, and work closely with engineers, data scientists, PMs and other designers to build and release products. Shortlist of ongoing and completed projects include: • Designed and conducted testing of lo-fidelity prototype (Sketch) to enable 100+ global License Compliance Executives to identify and engage suspects; the final implementation of the product resulted in a 25% increase of converted customers (from suspected pirated software to paid subscribers) for 10K+ accounts • Lead a $500K project with Fjord Design Consulting: Conducted research with 30+ interviews and lead workshops to improve the usability and onboarding experience for Autodesk’s centralized data platform; delivered personas, user journey map, product offerings, and onboarding guide • Redesigned customer retention predictive system for 100+ global customer success specialists to engage customers most at risk of turnover and to create more effective renewal conversations ### Data Experience Designer @ Autodesk Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 • Worked across various departments and teams to define how we as a company may better develop user-centric analytic services and platforms. • Improved usability of and onboarding experience onto Autodesk’s Data Platform (ADP) by conducting research and leading a series of hands-on collaborative exercises in order to develop a more standardized process and set of tools for teams (across data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and managers) to be self-sufficient in using our data platform. ### Data Visualization Engineer @ Autodesk Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Researched (Quantitative, Qualitative), designed (Illustrator), and developed (Angular2) an interactive, data visualization floor-to-ceiling display to create a more data-driven culture in the Autodesk community • Designed (Sketch & Illustrator) and co-developed (Flask, d3, highcharts) an animated visualization that sought to broaden the visibility of customer research and emphasize its importance, to increase our focus as a company on human centered design and make our products more lovable ### Lecturer @ UC Berkeley School of Information Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley I taught the front-end development portion of "Full-Stack Web Development", a graduate school course at UC Berkeley School of Information. In this course, students will work on all aspects of the full-stack web development process. Individual and team assignments will enable students to develop skills in data modeling, database and API design, responsive front-end design, version control, and deployment using Python, JavaScript, and full-stack frameworks such as Flask. The goal of this course is to help students understand different technologies and work towards being able to implement complete web-based projects for desktop and mobile. ### Intern - Data Visualization Developer @ Autodesk Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Data Visualization Developer for the Information Modeling and and Platform Products Group (IPG) at Autodesk ### Graduate Student Researcher - Web/Research Developer @ Berkeley - Public Policy and Energy Resource Group Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | UC Berkeley Aide Berkeley Public Policy and Energy Resource Group develop open source tools in Python to better understand the risks of climate change. My efforts will help to improve internal use as well as engage researchers from other institutions. Develop tools in Python (Numpy; Scipy) and MongoDB, and implement online design changes to improve public accessibility. ### Graduate Student Instructor - Smart Cities @ UC Berkeley, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | UC Berkeley Lead cohort of undergraduate students in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research department study and evaluate the concepts behind the design, layout and technology employed in a smart city. Course culminated in a trip to Visakhapatnam, India to deliver project deliverables to Chief Minister Naidu along with other Indian professionals and city leaders. Corporate Advisors: Tyco, Cisco, IBM, Siemens, Wipro, HCL, GE, Intel, EMC, VMWare & Applied Materials ### Owner and Founder @ We Tutor Hawaii Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Honolulu, Hawaii ‘We Tutor Hawaii’ is a local, online community marketplace for tutors and students to connect with each other right here in Hawaii. We aim to attract quality tutors from across the State and make the Hawaii tutoring experience as valuable and accessible as possible. ### Independent Data Consultant @ Fundación Chile Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santiago, Chile Consulted sustainability team to leverage their lifecycle product database in a way that delivered technical information in a tangible way for producers and consumers alike. Project included the creation of a visualization model for Grape production in both Shiny by RStudio and Tableau ### Data Designer @ Hawaii Department of Education Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Honolulu, HI Develop and produce data visualizations from Hawaii Department of Education data systems under the direction of the RTTT Data Fellow in the Office of Strategic Reform. The visual reports and presentations are to assist the Superintendent and the HIDOE Leadership team with review and analysis of the systems and programs operating within the Department and in communicating the collected data to the appropriate audiences. Access, analyze and visualize data from internal and external HIDOE information systems for reporting and presentations to internal and external HIDOE audiences. Conduct research of the collected data in comparison to similar data at the national and/or global level as requested for internal and/or external HIDOE reports, presentations, and/or communications. ## Education ### Master in Information and Management Systems in Product Design and Data Visualization UC Berkeley School of Information Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics Brown University Jan 2008 – Jan 2012 ### High School Diploma Punahou School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/carloliquido - Portfolio: http://ladybanditstudios.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/carlo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/carlo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-25