Al Abut
Tinkerer-In-Chief at Stealth Mode
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAl Abut is a product designer, startup founder and hands-on former frontend dev with 17+ years of experience turning rough prototypes into paying products across B2B, B2C and consumer apps. As a maker and "Tinkerer-In-Chief" in San Diego, he pairs daily with engineers to ship fast, pragmatic solutions and has led product and design at startups from Y Combinator-backed Referly to enterprise AR and regulated-medical workflows. He excels at rapid ideation, mentoring cross-functional teams, and launching new revenue streams—having pitched and delivered multiple paid offerings and rebrands. Known for relentless curiosity and a knack for bootstrapping AI and small-business projects, he favors speed, proactivity, creativity and a stubborn attention to polish. His background in biology and early career as a Flash developer give him an unusual mix of systems thinking and interaction craft that informs complex UX decisions.
17 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoChief Design Officer at Referly (S12) a social shopping startup., Chief Design Officer at Referly (S12) a social shopping startup. at Y Combinator
Github Skills (6)
ai8
serverless1
indieweb1
static-site1
netlify1
lambda1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alabut/alabut.github.io
Jan 2015 - Oct 2023
Contributions:14 PRs, 324 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 10 months
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alabut/alabut-v1
Jan 2009 - Feb 2009
Contributions:13 commits in 1 month
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