Andreas Viglakis
Senior Manager, Experience Design at Airbnb
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Viglakis is a design leader with 11 years of experience crafting map-centered products and teams across consumer and enterprise contexts, now leading Experience Design at Airbnb after five years managing Maps at Apple. He combines a strong urban-design and architecture background (Harvard GSD, Washington University M.Arch) with hands-on cartography: early work at Mapbox included refining core styles and scripting sprite generation for popular repos like mapbox-gl-styles. Based in New York with roots in the Bay Area mapping scene, he brings a rare blend of large-scale product leadership, visual-data craftsmanship, and systems thinking about transit and place. Collected projects range from exhibition-grade transit research at Stamen to production map design shipped at major platforms, showing he moves cleanly from research and physical visualization to engineering-integrated design. Colleagues describe him as a manager who mentors interdisciplinary teams while still diving into image-generation scripts and map styling details.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MAUD Architecture / Urban Design, MAUD Architecture / Urban Design at Harvard University Graduate School of DesignM.Arch (Honors) Architecture, M.Arch (Honors) Architecture at Washington University in St. LouisBA (Summa Cum Laude) History, BA (Summa Cum Laude) History at Boston University
Github Skills (5)
inkscape10
bash10
image-processing10
svg9
javascript5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mapbox/mapbox-gl-styles
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
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:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 7 PRs, 23 pushes in 26 days
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily worked on creating and updating sprite assets for map styles. Their commits involved scripting and modifying image generation processes using Inkscape and bash scripts. Key changes included generating light sprites, updating rail network visualizations, and refining marker styles for different map themes.
map-boxmapbox-glmapbox-gl-jsmobile
andreasviglakis/partyline
Feb 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch, 2 issues in 8 months
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