# Jeremy Tribby

> Design technology at Plaid. Fonts for NBC, Google.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jeremytribby

## Work Experience
### Design Technologist @ Plaid
Jan 2021 – Present
Established Design Technology function to act as bridge between (and direct contributor to) product design, brand design, and engineering. Design systems, design standards, design process, accessibility; Figma plugins, API servers, CLI tools; automated token management and design:eng parity; graphics programming, fonts and typographic systems, creative/type direction; internal tooling, AI and automation, up-leveling other designers and helping them ship code to production with AI

### Designer @ Plaid
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021
Early member of the design team; Foundational work on design systems, brand, product design

### Director @ Countertype
Jan 2019 – Present
Retail and custom typefaces, consulting for brands, R&D for other foundries

### Type Designer @ NBCUniversal
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Principal design, development, production, and engineering on Arthouse Owned typeface family in use on NBC and Telemundo properties worldwide. Direction: Bruce Fallini

### Product Designer @ Shift.org
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Designed all product experiences and marketing collateral for 2-sided job market connecting military veterans to interested hiring partners. Built out our first design system

### Type Designer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Directed Vietnamese expansion of open source type family, Barlow. The Barlow family, for which I was the principal designer and engineer, now has over 100 billion API serves.

### Front-End Engineer/Designer @ Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Worked on the launches of Certbot, Street Level Surveillance, Privacy Badger and a variety of other external campaigns along as well as internal tools like FAB (https://github.com/EFForg/eff_fab)

### Lead Interactive Designer @ ChefsFeed
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Front-End Developer & Designer @ Edupath
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Visual Designer @ Glimr
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Designer @ Michael Friedes Design Associates
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Founder @ ValleyVPN
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Built and sold VPN company.

### Software Developer @ Electra Bicycle Company
Jan 2002 – Jan 2003
Principle designer and architect of Perl-based B2B inventory and sales system for Electra to replace a manual Microsoft Access-based system, maintained, added features, and scaled over time.

### Founder @ Front Drive Hosting
Jan 2001 – Jan 2002
Founded and sold WHM/Cpanel-based hosting service.


## Education
### Practice of Art and Art History
University of California, Berkeley

### Type Design
Type West at Letterform Archive

### Art History in Criticism and Conservation
Foothill College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jeremy-tribby-962034125

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Last updated: 2026-04-13