Summary
Aj M is a Production Designer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building design systems and production workflows for high-growth tech companies. They have led design systems and tooling at Pinterest and Cambly, creating Syntax—a single source of truth that streamlined implementation between design and engineering. Aj combines hands-on production design with product-thinking, freelancing across production, design systems, and product design while now contributing at Anthropic. Their background includes production leadership roles at Apple, Google, and Square, giving them deep expertise in scaling design operations across teams. Notably, Aj moves fluidly between strategy and execution, often translating complex design intent into developer-ready systems and tooling. Colleagues describe them as a pragmatic systems thinker who elevates consistency and efficiency in product design.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer