Aayush Iyer
Senior Director Of UX And UX Engineering at Algolia
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAayush Iyer is a product and design leader with 12 years of experience building design systems and UX engineering teams that scale across large organizations. Currently Head of Product & Design in San Francisco, he has led cross-functional teams at Algolia and Twilio to deliver developer-facing platforms, generative AI features, and an industry‑leading open-source search UI library. He founded and matured Twilio’s design systems practice, unifying UI across many business units and instituting accessibility and inclusive design at scale. At Algolia he combined research, product and frontend engineering to ship ML-powered merchandising and Generative Shopping Guides while expanding InstantSearch adoption. Aayush blends hands-on front-end contributions (notably updates to Twilio’s Paste design system and docs) with strategic product leadership, and his background in journalism and advertising gives him a rare strength in crafting clear UX narratives and persuasive design systems roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BDWInformation Engineering, Computer Science, Information, Information Engineering, Computer Science, Information at University of MumbaiComputer Engineering (Dip.), Computer Science, Hardware, Computer Engineering (Dip.), Computer Science, Hardware at Thakur Polytechnic, Mumbai
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Github Skills (11)
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Github contributions (5)
twilio-labs/paste
Aug 2019 - Jun 2021
Paste is a design system for designing and building consistent experiences at Twilio.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 55 commits, 75 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Aayush primarily focused on updating the Paste website, a design system for Twilio. They implemented new features like a sidebar with designer guidelines, added links and content to the landing page, and updated the introductory content. Furthermore, the user made several changes to the website's UI components, including updates to the theme switcher, alerts, and illustrations, demonstrating a strong focus on improving the user experience and the website's documentation.
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aayushpi/aayushpi.github.io
Jan 2014 - Dec 2019
V4 of Portfolio
Contributions:81 commits, 4 PRs, 85 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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