# Skylar K.

> Design Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/skylark

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Couchbase
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States

### UX Design Specialist @ Couchbase
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Santa Clara, California, United States
• Wireframe prototyping
• Building/managing a functional design system (Figma)
• Interface design (information architecture revision & visual design)
• UX target research
• Running usability testing sessions
• Frontend development (svelte)
• Refactoring 
• Designing collaboratively within a team

### Web Developer, UX/UI Designer @ Cal Poly Digital Transformation Hub
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Luis Obispo, California, United States
• User interface design and branding (Logo, styles, fonts, colors, etc.)
• Designing, testing, and maintaining user experience workflows (Usability testing, user interviews &, interactive wireframe construction, etc.)
• Artifact generation (Personas, icons, banners, backgrounds, etc.)
• Frontend development (CSS, HTML, Javascript, React, Bootstrap, etc.)
• SEO research
• Communication with client/translating client requests into specs for frontend devs. (Managing UI/UX tickets on Jira)

### Volunteer Software Developer @ Team fEMR
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Luis Obispo, California, United States
• Worked as part of a structured agile development team

• Designed and developed an interactive trauma sheet prototype 
• Revised and updated database structure

• Constructed trauma sheet frontend (Scala, Java, HTML, CSS, JS)
• Connected frontend and backend development

### UI/UX Designer @ Hack4impact Cal Poly
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Luis Obispo, California, United States
• Was responsible for product interface design via interactive prototype 
• Managed usability testing and client communication

### TA for Computer Science Courses @ California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Luis Obispo, California Area

### QA Summer Intern @ E3 Retail
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Greater San Diego Area
Annual paid summer internships with POS system development company E3Retail, ranging from quality assurance software testing to assistance with targeted tool development.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Software Engineering
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sky-kurth

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Source: https://flows.cv/skylark
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/skylark/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11