# Roby S. > Product Designer & Design Engineer Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/robys robysaavedra.com Product designer and software builder with 10+ years shipping AI-integrated interfaces across healthcare, autonomous vehicles, and ride-share. I work across the full stack — from early concept and UX research through to production-ready code — which means I can move fast and stay close to the problem. Most recently at Olympus, designing digital healthcare tools. Previously built for companies operating at real-world scale in mobility and transportation. When I'm not doing that, I'm shipping side projects at the intersection of music and software — goodsong.club, digthis.club, concrete95.net — which give a pretty honest picture of how I think and build. Open to product design and design engineering roles at startups that want someone who can do both. Skills: AI interface design · UX research · design systems · front-end development · JavaScript · React ## Work Experience ### Product Designer IV @ Olympus Corporation Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 Medical technology company building connected surgical and diagnostic solutions. Designed AI-integrated digital health interfaces to streamline endoscopy unit workflows, focused on surfacing complex clinical data in intuitive, trustworthy ways. - Built AI-enhanced traceability tools that unified millions of disparate clinical data points into a natural language interface - Led AI workshops to upskill internal teams and embed AI-informed thinking into the design process - Conducted field research in hospital endoscopy units around the world, identifying workflow pain points directly at the point of care ### Senior Product Designer @ Cavnue Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Philadelphia, PA Infrastructure startup bridging current AV capabilities and full self-driving. Led design of a real-time data dashboard that communicated sensor accuracy and system confidence to operators — replacing third-party tools and saving significant capital. - Designed transparency-first data visualization system for autonomous vehicle corridor monitoring - Established design foundations for a suite of internal tools, reducing vendor dependency - Moved the team off third-party tooling, cutting costs while improving data fidelity ### Senior Product Designer @ Revel Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Brooklyn, NY Electric mobility startup (mopeds + EV charging) operating across major US cities. First designer at the company; built the entire internal operations and logistics tooling suite from scratch across nearly every department. - Designed full internal ops platform, replacing fragmented external tools - Worked directly with every department lead to align tooling with operational reality - Launch resulted in measurable spikes in productivity and financial efficiency ### Product Designer @ Flocabulary Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York City Metropolitan Area EdTech company using hip-hop to engage K-12 students across core curricula. Led design on pedagogical tools, games, and classroom activities for both students and teachers; ran user interviews that directly shaped product direction. ### Product Designer @ Diligent Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York City Metropolitan Area B2B SaaS platform for secure boardroom document management (S&P 500 clients). Led cross-platform design (iOS, Android, macOS, Windows) and spearheaded the company's progressive web app — bringing full feature parity to the browser and enabling a CI/CD release pipeline. - Unlocked platform access regardless of OS or device for enterprise users - Drove the PWA initiative end-to-end, improving release velocity significantly ### Freelance Designer @ Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### Mapping Specialist @ Google Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area Aided in the development and implementation of maps for the self-driving car project (now Waymo) ## Education ### Master of Fine Arts - MFA in Art San Francisco Art Institute Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA in Illustration California State University, Long Beach Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roberto-saavedra - Website: https://robysaavedra.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/robys JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/robys/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-07