Amy Walton
Senior Product Designer at Netflix
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Walton is a senior product designer with 12+ years of experience shaping delightful, operationally rigorous products at companies like Netflix and Mapbox. She blends systems-minded cartography and WebGL-powered map design with hands-on UI and front-end development, having contributed to notable open-source Mapbox projects including mapbox-studio-classic and mapbox-gl-styles. At Mapbox she led cross-functional research, brand advocacy, and technical spec work reporting to executives, and at Netflix she designs the tooling that underpins content sourcing and production. Her background spans consumer-facing campaign design that drove measurable traffic and revenue gains to tooling and test automation that improved map style reliability. Trained with an MFA in Graphic Design and a BBA in MIS, she pairs visual craft with product strategy and engineering fluency. Colleagues rely on her to turn complex cartographic and content workflows into clear, usable systems that scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Management Information Systems, General at University of CincinnatiMaster of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Graphic Design, Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.), Graphic Design at The Maryland Institute College of Art
Github Skills (13)
css10
javascript10
nodejs10
frontend10
test-automation10
testing10
leaflet9
mapbox-gl-js9
npm9
html9
url-routing8
documentation8
jekyll7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Project-OSRM/osrm-frontend
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Modular rewrite of the OSRM frontend using LRM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:179 commits, 41 PRs, 137 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily worked on the frontend of the OSRM project, focusing on the user interface and its styling. Their contributions included redesigning the start page by modifying CSS, removing and adding baselayers, swapping the layout, and styling alternate routes. They also updated fonts and added custom markers, including styling and color-coding for the markers.
lrmroutingfrontendmodularrewrite
mapbox/mapbox-gl-styles
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Prebuilt Mapbox GL styles for use in Mapbox GL JS or the Mapbox Mobile SDKs and as a starting point for custom maps built with Mapbox Studio
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 144 commits, 31 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Amy primarily focused on developing and maintaining tests for the `mapbox-gl-styles` repository. Their contributions included writing new tests for different style versions (v7 and v8), specifically targeting spritesheets, glyphs, and maki icons. The user refactored existing tests for clarity, added descriptive test names, and addressed issues with the test setup and execution. They also added test for the rail maki icons, contributing to the overall quality and reliability of the project.
leafletstarting-pointmapboxmapbox-glsdks
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