# Narciso Jaramillo > Engineer and Architect Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/narcisojaramillo Principal developer with design/product experience. Co-founded and helped lead teams building market-leading design and development tools, including Adobe XD, Brackets, and Adobe Dreamweaver. Extensive experience at balancing customer needs and usability with the realities of software development, and at finding creative, practical solutions to vague, complex problems. Interested in continuing to do both design and development, and in building software that enables both creative and technological expression. Also interested in consumer-oriented projects. Specialties: Design tools, developer tools, interaction design, user interface design, user interface engineering, JavaScript, C++, Objective-C, HTML, CSS, Java ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Reve Image Jan 2024 – Present ### Senior Principal Scientist @ Adobe Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 Helped lead development for Adobe XD, and founded and led an internal framework for creative tools on the web. ### Principal Scientist @ Adobe Jan 2010 – Jan 2020 Co-created initial prototype and helping lead development for Adobe XD (https://www.adobe.com/products/xd.html). Also founded the Brackets open-source project (http://brackets.io) and kibitzed on other design and development tool projects. ### Senior Computer Scientist @ Adobe Jan 2005 – Jan 2010 Worked on UI design, development, and product management for Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst, and Flex Mobile. ### User Experience Architect @ Adobe Jan 2000 – Jan 2005 Led the user experience design of several existing and new products, including Dreamweaver 4, Contribute 1, and Flex Builder 2. Key contributor in all phases of product design and development, from initial planning and customer research through implementation and endgame. Worked with cross-product user interface team to define the common MX workspace. Also responsible for the implementation of specific features, including Dreamweaver 4's Layout View, the overall workspace of Contribute, and the States feature in Flex Builder 2. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Adobe Jan 1997 – Jan 2000 Served as principal engineer for Dreamweaver 1, engineering lead for Dreamweaver 2, and UI lead for Dreamweaver 3. Responsible for the design and implementation of Dreamweaver's patented Roundtrip HTML technology, a key component in Dreamweaver's initial success, as well as Find and Replace, the link management infrastructure, and the Quick Tag Editor. As engineering lead, set and tracked development milestones and priorities for engineers in my team, and helped manage the release endgame, including bug prioritization and assignment, in addition to developing features. As UI lead, was responsible for reviewing all UI specifications across the product and providing design consultation where necessary, in addition to continuing in my engineering lead role. ### Senior Software Engineer @ 3DO Jan 1996 – Jan 1996 Co-designed the server architecture for an Internet-based multiplayer gaming service, designed to support large numbers of players connected at once, with chat and rendezvous services for multiple games. Implemented a prototype of the server architecture in C++. ### Member of Technical Staff - Core Design @ Silicon Graphics, Inc. Jan 1995 – Jan 1996 Responsible for the design and development of InfoNav, an end-user information browser that integrated multiple navigation interfaces ("How Do I?", hierarchy, linear index, keyword search) and multiple information sources (HTML, SGML, man pages, etc.) into a single tool, written in C++ using X/Motif and IRIS ViewKit. Cooperated in the design and development of other support information tools. ## Education ### Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### BS in Honors Mathematics and Computing University of Notre Dame ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/notwebsafe - Portfolio: http://notwebsafe.com - Portfolio: http://rictus.com/muchado --- Source: https://flows.cv/narcisojaramillo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/narcisojaramillo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10