01About
John is a multi-disciplinary product designer with a background in front end programming with 5 years of design experiences across AI, cryptocurrency, AR&VR platforms and crypto applications. He is fascinated in tackling and building components for scalable design systems, obsessed with pixel perfect UIs, loved breaking down ambiguous problems into smaller segments and energized by collaborating with people from different cross functional domains.
John's strength lies in breaking down complex systems and technical problems with creative frameworks by turning them into delightful and simple experiences. In 2021, he started Quadratic design studio, aiming to help early stage founders to rapidly test out ideas and find product market fit. Over time, this passion grew into a strong online presence, leading to collaborations with top-tier startups such as Sei (30M Series A), Halliday (20M Series A), Doppel (35M Series B), SushiSwap, and Luminai (33M Series B) that are funded by well known top tier VC such as a16z, Sequoia Capital, Multicoin Capital, Bessemer Ventures and South Park Commons.
Most recently, John has led design @Scale AI, designing proprietary ML tools for US government, @Apollo, integrating AI agents into sales workflow and Meta, designing data observability and LLM tools for data engineers and data scientists.
02History
- 2024
Meta
Senior Product Designer
- 2023
Apollo.io
Senior Product Designer
- 2021
Scale AI
Product Designer
- 2021
Quadratic Design Labs
Founder, Designer
- 2021
Spatial
VR Design Intern
- 2020
Snapchat
Design Intern
Advisory
Side projects
- 2025
Trandsttr
A compilation of 3D design, motion graphics and code base interactions created in FramerX, After Effects and Cinema4D
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03Recommendations
- Ryan HelgasonSWE at Meta
Worked with John on the same team · July 20, 2026
“When John joined our product pod, he immediately drove a full UX redesign — from PRD to user research to high-fidelity mocks — that resulted in 222% month-over-month growth in usage and directly unblocked new product adoption across the platform.”
LinkedIn ↗ - Yu-chi HsiehMeta SWE, Cornell CIS
Worked with John but on different teams · June 26, 2026
“He unblocked our engineering progress on asset tiering by identifying inconsistencies in the certification process and shipping a unified tier certification experience — directly contributing to company-critical data assets growing by 3x.”
LinkedIn ↗ - Saleh HamadehMember of Technical Staff at Hebbia
Worked with John on the same team at Scale AI · May 20, 2024
“John approaches designs from a user-first approach and has strong intuition that helps him come up with new ideas that push the products to be 10x better. He is able to iterate quickly and understands engineering constraints very well.”
LinkedIn ↗ - Gowri ShankarFormerly full stack engineer at Apollo.io
Worked with John on the same team at Apollo.io · May 19, 2024
“The features we launched together such as AI rephrase tool resulted in a huge uptick in features' acceptance rate and a 4x jump in MAU for the message intelligence squad.”
LinkedIn ↗ - Arno GauFormerly Staff Frontend Engineer at Scale AI
Senior to John, did not manage him directly · July 8, 2021
“He is able to maintain a high level of autonomy to driving the design of the product and his creativity and insight will serve him a great asset to any team.”
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