# Sarah Kane

> UX/UI Designer | Product Designer | Front-End Developer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sarahkane

I am a product designer with a background in front-end engineering. My work ethos can be expressed in two phrases: design with care, build with integrity. Check out my work below. Enjoy!

## Work Experience
### User Experience Designer @ Douglass UXD Studios
Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
At Douglass UXD Studios, I’m exploring a direct-to-code design process—sketching ideas and translating them straight into front-end components without relying on traditional tools like Figma. I’m building a real-time community platform using React and Tailwind CSS, experimenting with how UX and development can merge more fluidly in the age of AI. This approach allows me to prototype faster, iterate more intuitively, and rethink how digital products are shaped from concept to code.

### Website Designer @ M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Partnered with the CEO to align the website’s design with the company’s strategic vision and
branding, enhancing the trust’s online presence and engagement.

### Product Designer @ Colby Instruments LLC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Bellevue, Washington, United States
Collaborated with president and engineers to design a digital terminal for their high-precision programmable delay line instruments.

### Product Designer/ Front-End Developer @ Build2Lead
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Seattle metropolitan area, Washington, United States
Lead Product Designer for desktop educational platform for 8th -12th grade students.

### UX/UI Designer (Volunteer) @ SOMO
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Lead Product Designer for market place mobile app that connects small buyers to large wholesalers in rural Kenya.

### Front-End Software Developer @ Autographa
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Collaborated with the UX team and other key stakeholders to construct and integrate design features for the company’s desktop application.

### Software Developer @ NextStep
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area
Collaborated with the UX team and other key stakeholders to construct and integrate design features for the company’s mobile application. 

Implemented tools to track user data across various platforms improving KPIs by 75%.

Used performance testing to refine and fix pain points in the NextStep app.

### Software Developer Android/ React.js @ Maven
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Collaborated with the UX team and other key stakeholders to construct and integrate design features for the Mavent.io desktop application.

### Software Development Engineer Intern at Moz @ Moz
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Seattle
Team: Infrastructure
Primary Language:  Python
Technologies: Mesos | Marathon | Chronos | Mockito | Pytest


Projects:

Roger-Promote CLI Command: 
Assisted in updating a RogerOS deployment tool to enable promotion of applications to new environments   in Mesos clusters. This feature, used by all teams at Moz, significantly shortens the time required to deploy Roger applications to production, as well as resolving common issues with deployments. The feature also reduces storage waste in the Docker registry, and it guarantees that two containers with the same versions have the same code, thus solving version control issues with the Docker images.


AAAD Testing with Marathon and Chronos 
Worked closely with the senior automation engineer to develop extensive unit and GUI tests for the AAAD.
AAAD is an in house common authentication, authorization and auditing layer for frameworks Marathon and Chronos on the Roger OS system. These tests ensured that AAAD was free of bugs that could render the Roger OS system vulnerable to misuse.

### Student @ Ada Developers Academy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Highly selective (<10% acceptance) and intensive software developer training program in Seattle. It is comprised of 6-month full-time classroom training followed by 5-month paid industry internship. 

•	Technologies: Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, Node.js, Ember js,  HTML, CSS
•	Introduction to CS Fundamentals: Arrays, Linked Lists, Trees, Stacks, Queues, Hash Tables, Graphs
•	Projects:
	Aprender: Developing a language learning app, that uses a Rails back end API and an Ember.js front end 
	VideoStoreAPI: Developed a Node.js API using a PostgreSQL database   
	YouTubeCity: A fun side project that searches videos uploaded in a certain city, built with Rails and two Google APIs
	FarMarRails: Rails app using conventional Object-Oriented design patterns
	TicTacToe: Tic-Tac-Toe game using Node.js and JQuery 
	Video-Store-Kiosk: Developed an Ember.js single-page application that allows users to interact with a library of movies


## Education
### Foundations of UX and XR Design
New York University

### Computer Software Engineering
Ada Developers Academy

### Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Communication, General
University of Washington

### Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Photomedia
University of Washington


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sarah-e-kane

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Last updated: 2026-03-31