Adam Draper
Sr. Director Of Design at Weights & Biases
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Draper is a seasoned design and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building product teams and shipping user-centered interfaces across startups and enterprise software. Currently Sr. Director of Design at Weights & Biases, he blends hands-on front-end engineering chops with strategic design leadership to scale teams, systems, and acquisition integrations. He has a consistent track record of founding and growing design organizations, establishing design systems and frontend architectures, and turning research-led concepts into launched products. Notable wins include scaling Elastic Security’s design team, founding People.ai’s Product Design and UX Research practice, and leading cross-functional IA and product integrations after acquisitions. Based in Phoenix, he brings a rare mix of BFA-trained visual sensibility and AS computer systems pragmatism, often creating brand identities and developer-facing standards in the same role. He’s especially focused now on designing for AI-native experiences, marrying craft-level creativity with production-ready engineering practices.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Photography at Arizona State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Computer Information Systems, Associate of Science - AS Computer Information Systems at Phoenix College
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Github Skills (53)
javascript10
observability10
css10
formatting10
cdn10
typescript10
kibana10
js10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
spdy10
visualizations10
timestamp10
numeric10
frontend8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
adamwdraper/appular-express-app
Nov 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:81 commits in 9 months
js-projectsexpressjsjavascriptexpressserve
adamwdraper/music-practice
Nov 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:31 commits in 1 month
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