# Patricia Tani

> Incoming @ Vercel, prev. YC x3, IBM

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/patriciatani

🌸 Hi, I'm Patti! I'm an art student turned self-taught engineer working at YC startups 🙂  

I've worked as the 7th & 12th members (sole UX eng) of 2 early stage YC startups, and earned $2.0M in sales in 4 months during my internship at Signify doing Product Management, UX/UI design, and frontend. I've also won 6 hackathons (incl. western Canada's largest hackathon), and originally learned frontend to win more hackathons.   

I spend all day doing Figma, NextJS, Tailwind CSS, and thinking about new side projects.  

More fun facts:  
• Former Rank #1 in Canada (top 0.01%) in Mobile Legends. 
• Ranked top 5 citywide at 100m dash 
• Did competitive gymnastics for 4 years. 
• Masters in League (top 0.5%) in 1 year  

What I'm building: 
✦ Figroot, a free Figma plugin that turns Figma designs into React + Tailwind CSS code. https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1486825259782611959/figma-to-react-by-figroot 
✦ 67+ page handwritten NextJS frontend engineering guide https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yCTJsQWdybf9-l-oXxV54MY83xkF64r6OSinkqlnJvk/edit?usp=sharing  

Feel free to connect and shoot me a message 🙂  

📍Currently in SF

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer Intern @ Vercel
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
incoming summer 2026

### Software Engineer @ Julius AI
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA
product + frontend (NextJS, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS). Rebuilt the product UI (chat pages, sidebar, etc), headless CMS, design system, and branding redesign.

### Design Engineer @ Julius AI
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
built everything you see on the public website :D
https://julius.ai/

working on design + frontend, growth, A/B testing & SEO

### Design Engineer @ Julius AI
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
employee #12 for AI data analysis YC startup, designing and building stuff, selling t shirts

### chief builder and yapper @ Lemon AI
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
The AI IDE for designers. Modify styles, move elements, and have changes reflected in your codebase.

Try it now: https://trylemon.ai/

### Product Manager Intern @ IBM
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Markham, ON
🤖 IBM Manta Data Lineage

### Product Manager Intern @ Signify
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Langley, British Columbia, Canada
💡 Triple role as PM, UX/UI Designer, and Frontend Developer. Led a $2.0m UX/UI redesign for a 3D quote configuration tool for 5000+ agents across NA. Redesigned and developed 10+ pages for internal website. 

Converted Figma designs into pixel-perfect interactive webpages, product flows, & internal dashboards in React.js and Tailwind CSS through Gitlab.

Built and implemented a design system from scratch

Develop VPC and benchmark competitors to identify opportunities in product portfolio

### UX/UI Engineer @ Firezone
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
🌱 7th employee and 1st UX Eng for zero-trust vpn YC startup

designed + implemented figmas helping raise +$500k for series a, sales deck, marketing graphics + material, frontend architecture & trying to learn elixir

### Lead UX Designer @ PMReady
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
• Inclusive resource-driven community for all aspiring product managers, providing product modules, workshops, and seminars to support budding product careers.
• Collaborating across 15-member cross-functional team to ensure UX/UI layout, structure, and visual design meet needs of target audience.
• Direct weekly meetings and assign UX explorations and responsibilities
• Developing wireframes, mockups, and prototypes utilizing UX/UI principles

### Client Lead @ FLUI Design Hackathon
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Organized and ran FLUI Hackathon, Emily Carr's premier design hackathon providing professional, mentorship, and workshop opportunities for 200+ students.
• Recruited 12 Vancouver companies and businesses as clients through numerous contact methods.
• Organized spreadsheets, biweekly online meetings, and sent 100+ personalized emails to service deliverables to clientele.
• Marketed the event across various social media to obtain a 15% increase in ticket sales 
• Maintained close communication with participants through Discord to provide the best experience

### Project Leader @ Studi6
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Led a cross-functional team of 17 members to create Star Crossed, a bullet-hell dating simulator game in association with the UBC Game Development Club. 
• Responsible for organizing and planning meetings, making vital design decisions aligning with the team's vision
• Created roadmap with all needed deliverables for MVP and assigned work to members based on their individual strengths, experience, and talents.
• Delegated individual heads to oversee each production team, applying Agile development methodology to boost progress toward MVP

### UX Engineer Intern @ Storiator
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Responsible for UX design and React.js frontend development for an upcoming AI startup
• Created wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs for Landing, Explore, Dashboard, and About pages
• Conducted usability testing to identify and address user experience issues
• Utilized React.js and TypeScript to integrate my Landing Page design into a responsive webpage in 24h
• Incorporated feedback and made revisions to designs considering industry trends and user needs
• Optimized performance by 20% by utilizing React hooks and reworking component structure
• Planned business strategies based on market analysis to conceptualize design mockups


## Education
### Bachelor of Design (BDes)
Emily Carr University of Art and Design

### AI Startup School in Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
Y Combinator

### Eric Hamber Secondary School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/patricia-tani
- Portfolio: https://patticatti.vercel.app/
- GitHub: https://github.com/Patticatti

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Last updated: 2026-04-11