# Mario ⠀ > Accelerate entelechy, fight stagnation | Design & Product Leadership @ TinyFish 🐟 Location: Menlo Park, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mario1 In my journey as a prolific Creative Technologist, product design leader, design engineer and product leader in Silicon Valley, I have been a key founding member at several startups, leading cross-functional teams to turn visionary ideas into scalable, user-centric products. I am known to be a trailblazer—someone who turns ambitious ideas into reality and drives meaningful transformation across products and experiences. My expertise spans strategic business leadership, creative direction, and technical problem-solving. It has enabled me to deliver results quickly and effectively foster collaboration across design, engineering and product teams. While I served as Head of Design at Ghost Autonomy, I participated the development of 7 patents in embodied AI, Machine Learning, Human-Machine Interfaces, and automotive safety, showcasing my ability to create novel solutions in the frontier of technology products. physical AI, embodied AI, spatial computing, frontier AI Models, LLMs, multimodal, sensing, operating system design, neural networks, Deep Learning, Computational Neuroscience, Neuromorphic Chips, Low Power Hardware, special projects, procedural design, novel interfaces, nuclear fission and fusion, AGI, Multiplayer Agent Design, NLP, linguistics, symbolic systems, inference engineering ## Work Experience ### Design & Product Leadership @ TinyFish Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, CA We build enterprise web agents to simplify life. Head of Design, Member of Technical Staff ### Fractional Product and Design Leader @ ⌘ Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area The forward scout in the wild west of AI. I've been serving as a Fractional Design & Product Executive (fCDO) and a leadership advisor to early stage startups on the frontier, actively establishing the first foothold in new technologies. ### Head of Design and HMI Product Lead @ Ghost Autonomy Jan 2018 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California As a founding member of the company, I built and scaled world-class brand and product design teams, led multiple industrial design projects from concept to production, and personally led research and development of the Ghost HMI from inception. I had the chance to collaborate directly with engineers on converting and productizing truly frontier hardware and software technologies into something that is both safe and intuitive to the end-user. My contributions led to 8 US patents pending and assigned that reimagine the way that we can interact with a vehicle. ### Designer-in-Residence @ Sutter Hill Ventures Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Palo Alto, California ### Founding Designer and Design Lead @ Sigma Computing Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco One of the first employees hired. Worked with the founding team to bring the company mission into a salable product. ### Design Advisor @ CodePath Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Product Designer @ Wealthfront Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, CA ### Designer, Chase Edge @ JPMorgan Chase Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA ### Designer, User Experience @ Blackboard Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco, CA ### Social Science Data Lab (D-Lab) Student Researcher @ UC Berkeley Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Berkeley, CA One of the founding designers at UC Berkeley's lab dedicated to data-intensive social science research. ### Co-Founder @ Lucky Mug LLC Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Bethlehem, PA ### Assistant Director of Admissions / Admissions Counselor @ Lehigh University Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Responsible for mobile application development, reviewing applications for admission, travel to specific geographic market territories and interaction with prospective students and their families. Supervisor of Undergraduate Tour Guiding program with a staff of ~100 student tour guides. ## Education ### Master of Architecture / Leave of Absence University of California, Berkeley ### BA in Architecture and Interdisciplinary Studies Lehigh University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mariocde --- Source: https://flows.cv/mario1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mario1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13