Christian – AI, Product design, Prototyping, experts in Lemon.io

Christian

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Product Designer|Senior
UI/UX Designer|Senior

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.

26 years of commercial experience in
Adtech
AI
Design
Fintech
Marketing
Productivity
B2B
Dev tools
Mobile apps
Agentic automation
Main technologies
AI
4.5 years
Product design
7.5 years
Prototyping
7.5 years
UI/UX
11 years
Interaction Design
11 years
Figma
1 year
Design system
1 year
Additional skills
Workflow Automation
AI agent development
AI agent orchestration
React
Typescript
Node.js
AI deployment
AI chatbot development
Voice AI integration
Direct hire
Possible
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Experience Highlights

Founder & Product Builder
Jan 2019 - Ongoing7 years 8 months
Project Overview

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.

Project gallery:
Portfolio example for Beatflyer S.L. by Christian, Founder
Portfolio example for Beatflyer S.L. by Christian, Founder
Portfolio example for Beatflyer S.L. by Christian, Founder
Portfolio example for Beatflyer S.L. by Christian, Founder
Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
React
Typescript
Firebase
WebGL
Next.js
Product Designer & Engineer
Feb 2022 - Aug 20264 years 6 months
Project Overview

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.

Project gallery:
Portfolio example for Glide by Christian, Product Design
Portfolio example for Glide by Christian, Product Design
Portfolio example for Glide by Christian, Product Design
Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
AI
React
Typescript
Firebase
Cloudflare Worker
Temporal
Principal Design Manager - Cloud & AI
Oct 2017 - Jan 20224 years 3 months
Project Overview

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.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Figma
Ruby on Rails
Founder & Product Builder
Sep 2012 - Jan 20196 years 4 months
Project Overview

Independent product design and development studio, working with agencies, startups and larger organizations.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Swift
Objective C
Prototyping
React
React Native
Interaction Designer
Mar 2010 - Sep 20122 years 5 months
Project Overview

The publisher of Ubuntu, delivering secure enterprise open source software, with a focus on trusted open source solutions for everyone.

Responsibilities:
  • 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.
Project Tech stack:
Ubuntu

Education

2005
Digital Information Design
Camp
2004
Interactive Objects, Spaces and Services Design
MA

Languages

Italian
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
English
Advanced

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