# Thom Van Slembrouck

> Product Designer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thomvanslembrouck

I specialize in shipping new products quickly. Rapid prototyping, complex workflows, enterprise / SaaS tools, cloud platforms, engineering infrastructure, data-driven products, and data visualization. 

Portfolio: https://ptvans.github.io/portfolio/

Product Design · Artificial Intelligence · Large Language Models
User Research · Developer Tools · Data Visualization
Automation · Machine Learning

EXPERIENCE:
→ Replit: Build coding Agents that write and deploy apps based on your natural language requests
→ Facebook: building out engineering infrastructure (code review, deployment, testing, performance analysis) and other employee productivity tools
→ Apple: iterating 3D visualization & ML training tools for autonomous systems
→ Uber Freight: building market monitoring, pricing, and contract management tools
→ Atlassian: building automation-as-a-service and internal people-management tools
→ Desktop Metal: bringing easy-to-use 3D printing workflows for medical implants to clinicians
→ Stanford: producing data analysis and visualization to understand California's drought and water usage 
→ Ridgeline: building new cloud-based infrastructure for the investment management industry

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Specializing in B2B/SaaS across many industry verticals, including employee tools, enterprise software, workflows, automation, autonomous systems, machine learning, data visualization, app performance, and engineering, analytics & development tooling.

Industries: AI, LLMs, agents, prompt engineering, additive manufacturing, healthcare, software development tooling, app tracing / performance profiling, freight (full truckload) pricing, vehicles / transportation, automated / autonomous systems, machine learning, financial and portfolio management tools, security trading, real estate development, other enterprise infrastructure, water management, climate science, data journalism, data visualization tools, consumer products

Cover art by: IG @zach.lieberman

## Work Experience
### Product Design @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Automation for health and wellness providers

### Product Designer / UX Engineer @ Replit
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025
Everyone should be able to build software.
Building more approachable, human-friendly UX workflows for AI coding agents

### Product Designer / UX Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Cupertino, California, United States
Client: Apple Inc. (via TEKSystems)
Domain: Autonomous systems, 3D visualization, machine learning

### Senior Product Designer @ Ridgeline
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Incline Village, NV
Developing an integrated serverless cloud platform for the investment management industry, including portfolio/model management, trading, reporting, compliance, accounting, and client management.

Design systems & UI frameworks
Application architecture
Data processing workflows & automation

### Senior Product Designer @ Uber Freight
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Automated freight contract pricing
Freight capacity allocation tooling
Revenue/demand projection
Budgeting and forecasting tools
Platform monitoring, service outage detection, alerting tools
On-call management
Load / route matching algorithms

### Product Designer @ Facebook
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Application performance stack tracing and visualization
Experimentation management
Natural language processing
Engineering release management tools
Productivity tools (task management, code review)

### Founder & Creative Director @ Halftone Design, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Halftone specializes in rapid prototyping, enterprise / SAAS tools, cloud platforms, engineering infrastructure, and data visualization.  We help data-intensive startups with complex workflows build rapid prototypes to prove and develop data-driven products.

### Project Manager & Data Visualization Designer @ Visually, a Rock Content solution
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area
Founded by Mint.com founders. Manage client engagements with The Economist, Stanford, GOOD Magazine, McKinsey & Company, others.

Product data visualization projects on behalf of Visual.ly and clients.

### Product Design @ Happy Money
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Product design for the consumer personal finance space.  Specializing in savings, credit & debt products, consumer education, planning tools

### Project Management & Strategy @ Traction
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Content Strategy @ Mint.com @ Intuit
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area
Plan and create educational personal finance content and information graphics to drive user growth via the infographics-heavy Mint blog which accounted for 75%+ of organic user growth to the application.

### Business Valuation Analyst @ Stout
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Providing asset discovery and valuation for purposes of litigation. 
Areas: Family law, commercial litigation (Dispute Advisory & Financial Services)

Business valuation (discovery, cash flow projection, market analysis, enterprise / brand value)
Asset discovery
Economic damages modeling
Tax compliance


## Education
### Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA in Finance, Strategy, Operations
University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

### Summer Program in Economic Integration of the European Union
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thom-van-slembrouck-6469a71a4

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Last updated: 2026-04-13