# Jin Yao > Senior Design Manager at Confluent.io Location: Seattle, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jinyao A proven designer with a solid cache of insights and experience creating technical and business orientated products. Special focus on designing tools, experiences, and processes for products that heavily focuses on: Business related decision making systems Software engineering or technical operations Complex and nuanced data visualization products See portfolio @ https://bit.ly/3wEvMYP ## Work Experience ### Senior Design Manager @ Confluent Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Senior UX Designer @ AppOmni Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote ### User Experience Designer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area Lead and deliver designs for table-stake features for Amazon QuickSight, a cutting-edge business intelligence, analysis, and reporting product offered by AWS. Primary design focus on data preparation & wrangling, critical data visualizations, and data analysis capabilities. Lead and deliver designs for for Amazon Fraud Detector, online fraud fighting tool using AI & Machine Learning algorithms. Primary design focus on configuring model training and displaying training results hosted in AWS Console. Also designing a fraud investigation platform enriched with data visualization and AI detection signals. ### User Experience Designer @ Google Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View Co-led design effort for redesign of Google Cloud Platform's web console. Led & delivered design for Google Cloud Console mobile app for iOS and Android. Achieving significant positive reviews in Google Play store. Led design effort for cutting-edge Google Analytics features, helping content publishers, creators, and advertisers grow their business through insightful data visualizations. Contributing to Google's visualization design language through individual contribution and organizing grass-root efforts amongst designers. Delivered multiple innovative designs leading to patent applications with one patent awarded so far. ### User Experience Designer Intern @ Google Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 User Experience Intern at Google working on Google Analytics, with emphasis on designing data visualizations. ### Assosiate Application Developer (MATREX) @ AT&T Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 College hire, rotational program for AT&T. Utilized Hyperion (Oracle) Essbase data warehousing software to develop and maintain data models for AT&T finance reporting. Created SQL scripts to maintain data integrity and update database with latest changes in AT&T operations. Documented the team's server infrastructure in UML model to assist planned upgrades and changes in future. ### IT Support @ All Saints Atlanta Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 Supported a 30 staff organization's IT needs through sourcing, implementation, and on-going / on-hands support. Trained next generation of support staff to ensure high-level of support quality for regular transitions. ### Program Manager Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 Created and publicized a technical resource guide for software vendor partners targeted towards Windows 7 launch. Organized and hosted conferences between software vendor partners and Microsoft technical resources to resolve and educate issues regarding Windows 7 Evaluated security products from software vendor partners for compatibility with Windows 7. ### Co-Op Student Developer @ Georgia Tech Research Institute Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 Student Developer through the Georgia Tech Co-Op program. Created and maintained Java-based ( JBeans, Tomcat) enterprise software used within the GTRI organization. ## Education ### Master's degree in Human Computer Interaction Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 ### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jin-yao-b187617 - Portfolio: http://www.everydayinfovis.com - Facebook: https://facebook.com/jin.yao1 --- Source: https://flows.cv/jinyao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jinyao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30