# Stephen Suen > Product Designer at Airtable Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/stephensuen Digital product designer and frontend engineer building data visualizations and creative tools. Previously made news apps and interactive graphics for journalism and civic media. Now at Airtable — we're hiring! ## Work Experience ### Product Designer @ Airtable Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Product design and software engineering for Airtable's Platform team. ### Software Engineer @ Cloudstitch Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Led design and front-end engineering for Cloudstitch's office suite-powered web development platform. Redesigned and implemented latest version of the product as a Polymer/Redux progressive web app. Conceptualized and developed site templates to serve as starter projects for users and demonstrate potential applications. ### Freelance Web Developer @ Self-employed Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA / San Francisco Bay Area Built websites and web apps for clients such as Emerson College and the MIT Media Lab, working at various layers of the stack. Projects involved front-end UI design and templating, WordPress custom theming and plugin deployment, data visualization/mapping with D3.js, and backend development with Python/Flask. ### Online Media Editor @ The Tech Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Cambridge, MA Led the newspaper’s interactive graphics team to develop visualizations and deploy online packages for data-driven news stories. Conducted internal hack nights and workshops in HTML/CSS/JS, d3.js, and web scraping. Launched the website’s first redesign in nearly a decade as its sole designer and lead front-end developer, transitioning from a legacy PHP content management system to a digital-first, mobile-responsive Rails app. ### Program Manager Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, WA Designed and wrote functional specs for UI/UX features in the Windows 10 Calendar universal app. Integrated design patterns from the OS, other Office apps, Outlook.com, and legacy conventions while still pushing new interaction paradigms. Created animated mockups and C#/XAML prototypes for user testing and design crits. Coordinated with an engineer to ship these features through agile methodologies and sprint planning. ### Google Journalism Fellow @ ProPublica Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | New York, NY Produced online news graphics on NSA surveillance and unpaid internships as a part of ProPublica’s news apps team. Designed and implemented a reusable lawsuit tracker in Sinatra, oEmbed-based modules for a social media story-sharing platform in Rails, and a synchronized video transcript using JavaScript and the YouTube API. ### Youth & Media Intern @ Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, MA Coordinated ten interns in the qualitative analysis of focus group transcripts on teen information consumption habits. Provided writing, infographics, media production, and curriculum development. ### Undergraduate Researcher @ GAMBIT [Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab] Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, MA Developed a series of quests and AI behaviors for the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to explore the feasibility of procedural storytelling within the game engine. ### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Media Lab Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, MA Designed visual identity and UI elements for Vojo, a community mobile blogging platform optimized for feature phones. Liveblogger for ROFLcon and MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Comparative Media Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/s2tephen - Portfolio: http://stephensuen.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/stephensuen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stephensuen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31