Alejandro Alvarez
Senior Brand, Web & UI Designer at Kestra
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAlejandro Alvarez is a Design Lead and product-focused design engineer with 15+ years of experience translating visual communication into developer-facing products and marketing at scale. Currently the sole designer at Prisma, he owns brand, docs, and product design across prisma.io, leading token-based design system work and shipping major launches like Prisma 7 and Query Insights in tight partnership with engineering. Former roles at Netlify and a wide range of agencies sharpened his ability to run cross-functional design systems, illustration workshops, and high-volume marketing output. He’s fluent in Figma, design tokens, Storybook, and React/TypeScript handoffs, and experiments with AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code, Cursor) to speed design-to-code delivery. Bilingual in English and Spanish with C1 German and a background spanning illustration to product engineering, he blends craft-level visual skills with practical engineering handoff experience.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Computer Programming, Postgraduate Degree Computer Programming at SHIFTA by ELISAVA.AI Coding Bootcamp, AI Coding Bootcamp at MemoriselyDesign and Visual Communications, General, Design and Visual Communications, General at Centro de DiseñoBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Fine/Studio Arts, General, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) Fine/Studio Arts, General at Miami Dade CollegeDesign and Visual Communications, General, Design and Visual Communications, General at PRODISEÑO SAMaster of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration at LAB SevillaTechstart Program 1-year study program UX Design / Programming, Techstart Program 1-year study program UX Design / Programming at CODE University of Applied SciencesGraphic Design Design and Visual Communications, General, Graphic Design Design and Visual Communications, General at Prodiseño
German, Spanish, English
Github Skills (2)
monorepo10
prisma10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Techboidesign/techboi.design
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Code sandbox for Codecademy
Contributions:4 PRs, 10 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
Techboidesign/learning
Sep 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 5 months
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