Alexander Kohlhofer
Principal Product Designer at Field Bureau + Werkstatt
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Kohlhofer is a Principal Product Designer with 17 years of experience shaping AI-powered, collaborative platforms and turning complex systems into intuitive experiences. He has led design and product at Observable, reimagining data visualization as a spatial, AI-assisted canvas, and drove Tray.ai’s transformation from iPaaS into an agentic automation platform that connects people, data, and AI. Comfortable at the intersection of design, product, and engineering, he builds design systems and cross-functional teams that scale clarity across product, brand, and go-to-market. A founder and early remote-work practitioner (Spreedly, Weewar), he brings entrepreneurial rigor and a history of shipping developer-focused and enterprise-grade products. Based in Cary, NC, he balances deep technical fluency with a knack for making sophisticated workflows feel effortless and collaborative.
18 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Städt. St.-Anna-GymnasiumDesign and Visual Communications, General, Design and Visual Communications, General at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
English, German
Github Skills (19)
user-voice9
builtwith8
angularjs6
visualization4
markdown4
graphic4
angular4
backend4
frontend3
dashboard3
ios3
javascript3
uci2
static-site-generator2
chess-engine2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kohlhofer/xhtmlchat
Aug 2008 - Feb 2012
Contributions:11 commits in 3 years 6 months
SimplyDo/cryptography
May 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:29 commits in 1 year 3 months
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