Adam Michel
Senior Staff UXD At Google YouTube
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Michel is a Senior Staff UXD at Google YouTube with over two decades designing digital products and twelve years in senior leadership roles, blending hands-on craft with strategic creative direction. He has led multidisciplinary teams to deliver award-winning, research-driven experiences for clients like Disney, Philips, and Penguin Random House, including work featured at Apple’s WWDC and an Emmy-nominated TV UX. Known for a bias toward action, Adam builds aligned teams, defines clear creative visions, and consistently ships on time and on budget while mentoring emerging talent. A pragmatic proponent of Lean UX, Design Thinking and hybrid Agile processes, he also has a maker’s mindset—an autodidact who builds mostly useful things outside formal roles. Based in Portland, Oregon, he pairs big-picture strategy with detailed interaction and motion design, often turning complex research into delightful, usable products.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at UCLA ExtensionUniversity of California, Los AngelesDigital Media Coursework, Digital Media Coursework at The American Film Institute
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Github Skills (94)
react-native-bridge10
appauth10
typescript-types10
push-notifications9
api9
go-api9
swagger9
react-native-app9
3d9
auth9
log-shipping9
firebase9
openapi9
plugin9
typescript9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
StartupdotSC/Lemyr
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:32 commits, 1 push in 5 months
awmichel/buildpack-ruby-rake-deploy-tasks
Jul 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
herokudeploy-to-herokurakearbitrary
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