# Owen Schoppe > Software Engineer at Google Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/owenschoppe Owen Schoppe is a developer, designer, and maker who has more than 10 years of experience building intuitive software products loved by millions of people. He currently focuses on full-stack development, with a passion for frontend and UX. Owen fuses a programmer’s logic with an artist’s flair to solve clients’ ambiguous problems. He uses his background in mathematics to craft logical strategies and his artistic training to find creative new solutions, with a focus on balancing strategic goals with people’s genuine needs. He has applied this hybrid approach to help companies find and develop new growth opportunities in a variety of industries, including SaaS, operations supply companies, and consumer electronics manufacturers. Owen holds a Master of Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a B.A. in sculpture from Bard College, where he built room-size interactive installations that delighted participants with surprising and playful interactions. Specialties: Frontend Engineering, Design Systems, Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Design Strategy ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Staff Full-stack Engineer @ Aurora Solar Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | United States - Delivered end-to-end features across Ruby on Rails, Java, C++, and TypeScript microservices, using React, MobX, and Apollo GraphQL to enhance product scalability and user experience. Led development of Engineering Stamps and integrated Instant Plan Set acquisition, doubling plan volume in 9 months while deprecating the acquired product. - Enhanced CAD electrical component modeling, boosting design accuracy and usability for solar professionals. - Reduced test flakiness from 20% to 2% by developing new Playwright and Cypress utilities, improving CI reliability and developer confidence. - Maintained and optimized the Aurora Design System, resolving iOS rendering inconsistencies and rich text parsing issues to improve cross-platform performance. ### Senior Frontend Engineer @ Aurora Solar Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | United States - Developed and launched pixel-perfect React UIs for the plan set service, enabling international expansion and streamlined solar permit generation. - Built an electrical line diagram editor and implemented geometry-rendering algorithms to produce accurate, permit-ready SVG site plans and single line diagrams. - Led front-end refactoring and test coverage improvements, reducing form-related bugs and accelerating feature releases. - Monitored and optimized performance using DataDog and Amplitude for data-driven feature enhancements. ### Lead UX Engineer @ Salesforce Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area - Maintained and optimized a Webpack + PostCSS multi-repo pipeline powering Salesforce’s core design system used by thousands of internal and external developers. - Created a Figma plugin automating icon component updates each release, saving design and engineering teams hours of manual effort per cycle. - Contributed to Web Components and CSS Custom Properties architecture, improving component reusability, accessibility, and theme consistency across Salesforce products. - Implemented W3C accessibility standards, ensuring design system compliance and inclusive user experiences at enterprise scale. ### User Experience Design Architect @ Salesforce Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led design and prototyping for Einstein Designer, an AI-powered content generation platform for marketing teams at leading retail brands. - Built data collection tools and interactive prototypes in React, Express, and Python to generate structured datasets with 500k examples to support model training and validation. - Collaborated with data scientists in Jupyter Notebooks to refine AI-driven personalization features. - Co-developed and presented product vision at executive off-site and designed a keynote demo for Dreamforce watched by 1M+ people, influencing Salesforce's broader AI strategy. - Advocated for user-centered, ethical AI design principles to ensure transparent and accessible creative tooling. ### Principal Product Designer @ Salesforce Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led the end-to-end design of Lightning Flow Builder, Salesforce’s flagship business process automation platform. - Designed foundational UI components (e.g., combobox, canvas interactions) now used by millions of users across the Salesforce Lightning Platform. - Partnered with accessibility engineers to ensure WCAG 2.1 AA compliance and performant experiences for thousands of enterprise users. - Coordinated 50+ engineers and multiple product managers to deliver cross-cloud functionality spanning Service, Marketing, and Commerce. - Contributed to the Service Console vision and early designs for Next Best Action Builder, unifying Salesforce’s intelligent automation strategy. - Presented design concepts and product progress to C-suite executives for alignment and funding. ### Lead Product Designer @ Salesforce Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area - Led design of data tables and filtering experiences for Salesforce CRM, improving data discoverability and editing efficiency for millions of users. - Spearheaded the inline edit feature for lists and records, building a functional JavaScript prototype to validate usability and accessibility across product teams. - Contributed core design patterns to the Salesforce Lightning Design System (SLDS), shaping UI standards across all Salesforce products. - Collaborated with hundreds of engineers, designers, and product managers across dozens of scrum teams to deliver a unified CRM experience. ### Senior Product Designer @ Salesforce Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area - Designed and prototyped version control management features for Salesforce’s development platform. - Created UX for package publishing and management workflows on the Salesforce AppExchange. - Partnered with product managers and engineers to define end-to-end user flows supporting developer productivity and platform scalability. ### Senior Designer @ Jump Associates Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Mateo, CA Jump is a innovation and strategy consulting firm that helps companies create new businesses and reinvent existing ones. By focusing on the needs of real people, we solve big ambiguous challenges and discover new opportunities for growth including products, services, and platforms. Lead teams through the creative process to develop and refine product and service concepts that lead to new growth businesses. Design the interactions and experiences that define products people love and bring them to life through illustration and visualization. ### Design Lead and Strategist @ Jump Associates Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Mateo, CA Design new business concepts for Fortune 500 companies, such as Samsung and Volkswagen, that result in significant top-line growth. Lead teams to develop breakthrough ideas and illustrate concepts through ideation and visualization. ### Project Lead @ IIT Institute of Design Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Chicago, IL Planned and programmed a database tool for user research, that was used by classes at ID to accelerate analysis and access to archived data. Interviewed target users to discover needs and test usability. Sketched, diagrammed, and wireframed to refine the interface. ### Intern @ organicARCHITECT Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco, CA Created diagrams and collected images of daylighting now featured in ‘Sustainable School Architecture’ by Lisa Gelfand and Eric Corey Freed. ### Intern @ Doblin Group Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | Chicago, IL Assisted the team in generating concepts to help an international telecom company create a new retail business in the US. Helped conduct interviews, analyzed video material, and became the voice of the user to help the team frame insights grounded in research. ## Education ### MDes in User Centered Interaction Design and Design Planning Illinois Institute of Technology Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### B.A. in Sculpture Bard College Jan 2003 – Jan 2006 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenschoppe - Website: http://www.owenschoppe.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/owenschoppe JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/owenschoppe/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07