Alessandro Mingione
Designer at Designer For Hire
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlessandro Mingione is a designer with a decade of experience shaping product and interaction design for both startups and enterprise teams, currently helping make networking simpler and more human at Tailscale. He led design for Security and Data Versioning at Palantir, and previously helped incubate what became Palantir Foundry, blending systems thinking with pragmatic UX. As a design contractor and co-founder of a collaborative arts-education collective, he advises startups on hiring designers and bootsrapped cross-disciplinary projects that bridge art, education, and product. Trained in industrial, interaction, editorial, and type design across European institutions and Stanford Continuing Studies, he brings a rare typographic and systems-oriented sensibility to interface work. Known for a playful, candid voice—“I don't know Javascript”—he focuses on design leadership, mentorship, and craft rather than front-end coding. Colocated in Oakland, he pairs high-level strategy with hands-on visual identity and product execution for complex technical domains.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Editorial Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Editorial Design at Accademia di Belle Arti di RomaBachelor’s Degree, Type Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Type Design at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst LeipzigMaster's degree, Interaction Design, Master's degree, Interaction Design at Università IUAV di VeneziaStanford Continuing StudiesBachelor's degree, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Product Design at ISIA Roma Design
English, German, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
android-client10
javascript10
blueprint10
react-components10
vpn10
vpn-client10
ui-components10
ui-toolkit10
sass10
lerna10
typescript10
wireguard10
tailscale10
security10
hyper10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sonovawolf/dotfiles
Sep 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
fatphisto/Grappino
Sep 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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