Christian
From Costa Rica (UTC-6)
Christian – AI, Product design, Prototyping
Christian is a senior product designer and builder with over 20 years of experience spanning engineering, product design, and strategy. He has led product pillars at startups, contributed to developer tools at Microsoft and GitHub, and brings hands-on expertise in applied AI and Figma. His strengths include technical depth, product thinking, and clear communication, particularly in early-stage or technical product environments. He is best suited for roles requiring end-to-end ownership and close collaboration with engineering.
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Founder & Product Builder
A software company creating expressive digital tools that let users produce eye-catching video posts in seconds, including AI-generated backgrounds, text layouts, and companion flyers from an uploaded image.




- Bootstrapped and launched creative tools for making animated content, including Beatflyer and WePop.
- Worked across the entire product lifecycle, from identifying opportunities and designing interactions to engineering, distribution and growth.
- Built and shipped native mobile and web products featured by Apple and Product Hunt.
Product Designer & Engineer
A no-code development platform that turns spreadsheets into beautiful, intelligent business apps without requiring any coding, and has since expanded into an AI-powered app builder.



- Designed product experiences across core app-building workflows, from early concepts and prototypes through shipped product.
- Worked closely with product and engineering on new ways for people to create software using natural language and AI agents.
- Designed and prototyped interaction models spanning data, UI, workflows and integrations.
- Built functional prototypes to explore ideas quickly across the boundary between design and engineering.
Principal Design Manager - Cloud & AI
A global technology company whose mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more, offering software, cloud services, and devices for individuals and businesses worldwide.
- Worked on products used by millions of developers, including GitHub and Microsoft’s developer ecosystem.
- Explored new developer experiences across cloud services, collaboration and software development.
- Helped bring together product and design across large, distributed organizations.
Founder & Product Builder
Independent product design and development studio, working with agencies, startups and larger organizations.
- Designed, prototyped and built digital products across web and native mobile, often exploring new technologies and interaction patterns.
- Worked end-to-end from early product concepts and interaction design through working prototypes and production software.
- Worked with clients including Microsoft, Samsung, Barclays and HSBC.
Interaction Designer
The publisher of Ubuntu, delivering secure enterprise open source software, with a focus on trusted open source solutions for everyone.
- Rapidly prototyped and specified behaviors for rich interactive elements such as the Launcher and the Overlay Scrollbars.
- Worked on animation guidelines, layout pattern improvements in System Settings panels, and specifications for web application integrations with the system.
- Helped research multi-touch input methods and adapt UI elements to different form factors.
- Oversaw progress and implementation quality to keep the user experience coherent during frequent releases.