Summary
Adam Kirkwood is a product designer with 17 years of experience crafting developer and consumer-facing experiences, currently designing internal tools at Meta that help engineers ship code faster and with more confidence. He blends principle-driven design with rapid iteration, data-informed decisions, and measurable metrics to create simple, usable solutions grounded in real context and research. His background spans startups and enterprise—from founding a subscription e‑commerce business to shaping API and ad products at IBM, Recurly, and Tango Me—bringing both design leadership and hands-on implementation skills. A former maker of Sketchpacks and frequent Medium author, he pairs tooling savvy with a developer-friendly mindset that helps bridge design and engineering.
17 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Human Computer Interaction, Human Computer Interaction at Evergreen Valley College
B.S., Web Design & Interactive Media, B.S., Web Design & Interactive Media at The Art Institute of California - San Francisco
Tagalog