# Ran Tao > Product design at Roche Sequencing Solutions Location: Daly City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rantao Engineer turned designer with over 15 years of extensive experience in web and mobile services/applications. Specializing in bioinformatics, medical devices, diagnostics, next generation sequencing (NGS), maps, social networks, games, dating, ubiquitous computing, interactive media and more. Interested in early-stage startups and companies making impactful change on societal behaviors and especially those rethinking how new technology can be used for the betterment of the day to day. Would love to be challenged in the following industries: women’s health, biotech, medtech, climatetech, automation, wearable tech, edtech, robotics, ai, or anything in the realm of future tech. Specialties: user experience design, user interface design, product design, interaction design, visual design, design strategy, design systems, ui, ux, rapid prototyping, user research, web, mobile, html/css, consumer, enterprise, regulatory, ai ## Work Experience ### UX Design Strategist/Lead @ Roche Jan 2022 – Present ### Senior Principal Product Designer @ Roche Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 ### Principal Product Designer @ Roche Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Belmont, California Roche Sequencing Solutions (RSS) Partner with an international team of stakeholders on designing the software interface and user experience for both IVD and RUO medical devices. These products support end-to-end clinical insights and diagnostics based on genomic data and next generation sequencing (NGS) workflows. Products include: - Liquid biopsy (ctDNA) and tumor tissue bioinformatics analysis software for oncology assays - Nanopore sequencing technology - Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing - Clinical annotation, interpretation and reporting - Geneticist and curation tools - Liquid handling robots - Medical laboratory data management solutions Own visual design for all RSS software products. Created design system for all designers and developers that was shared to the greater Roche Diagnostic organization. Manage and lead a team of off-shore designers. UI, UX, visual design, user research, prototyping ### Principal | Designer | Developer | Consultant @ Ephexi Jan 2005 – Present Working on personal and freelance projects and consulting with companies that need product + design expertise. ### Senior Product Designer @ Bina Technologies Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Belmont, California Bina develops next-generation genomic management solutions by enhancing best practices in big data and information management for industry-leading sequencing platforms. In addition, Bina is integrating tightly with upstream and downstream solutions offered by Roche Sequencing. Roche and Bina aim to build a seamless, end-to-end solution that can realize the promise of precision medicine. ### Full-stack Designer @ One Concern Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto One Concern, Inc. fundamentally changes the way society plans for, responds to, and recovers from all types of emergencies and natural disasters. Product Design, UI, UX, Front-End Engineering, Branding, Sales, Marketing and lots of Maps Maps Maps. ### Secret Agent @ Wouldn't you like to know Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area Finalist and interviewed at both Techstars and YCombinator multiple times. Worked on a few different startups with some awesome people. Including being a co-founding member of what is now known as Gigster. ### Senior UI Designer @ if(we) Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, California Worked on redesigning the website, creating new social games, and defining key interaction features for both web and mobile. ### UX Designer @ Microsoft Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 | Redmond, Washington XDR (Experience Design and Research) - Design Team for Microsoft Windows and Windows Live ### Researcher @ Microsoft Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 Internship working with the VIBE group at Microsoft Research: research.microsoft.com/vibe ### Interactive Applications Designer @ Verizon Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | New York, New York ### Process Engineer @ Intel Corporation Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | Santa Clara, California ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 | Cambridge, Massachusetts MIT Changing Places - House_n: A joint Architecture and Media Laboratory Consortium. House_n is part of Changing Places and explores how new technologies, materials, and strategies for design can make possible dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life. ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology ### Genetics and Genomics Certificate Stanford University ### iOS Development in Ruby, Rails App Academy ### Master's Degree in Interactive Telecommunications Program New York University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rantao - Portfolio: http://www.ephexi.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/rantao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rantao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13