Managing the Gestalt Core team, which maintains and extends Pinterest's design system to enable our teams to build cohesive, high-quality products across all platforms.

Shifted role into management to build the Platform Design team's strategy and scale the Design Foundations org. Our team brings customer-focus and UX expertise to internal tools (including Engineering, Trust & Safety, and Growth) to empower them to work efficiently and ultimately deliver to Pinterest's consumers.

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Broadened scope to lead design on Pinterest's developer experience.

Partnered with engineering platform teams to design or improve the UX of tools and workflows to enable their customers (developers) to do their best work.

Ran user research to map the developer journey of 'Code to Deploy' and ML dev's 'Idea to Shipping' — uncovered user needs, pain points, and opportunity areas, which was shared with stakeholders across orgs to use in planning and prioritization cycles.

Designed vision concepts of how Pinterest's developer tools could be centralized and unified via the internal design system, Gestalt and the open-source developer portal platform, Backstage.

Designed and improved Pinterest's homegrown continuous delivery tool for teams migrating to Kubernetes, and an Observability dashboard tool for monitoring and on-call engineers.

Took on PM responsibilities in lieu of dedicated support. Leveraged and extended design systems including Pinterest's Gestalt, and Ant.

Incorporated regular customer feedback and ran research to understand needs and assess usability.

Shipped multiple cycles of an Eng-wide Infra Tools CSAT survey to track satisfaction scores and gather qualitative feedback.