Ari Zilnik
Head Of Design at Join
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAri Zilnik is a Head of Design and product design leader with 11 years of experience simplifying complex B2B software and scaling design teams and systems. He’s led design at high-growth companies and startups—from building a design consultancy that scaled to $700K ARR and was acquired, to growing Blockdaemon’s product and design org where his work helped scale API traffic 23x and supported a $207M Series C. Ari combines hands-on UX craft and coding fluency with academic rigor from an MHCI at Carnegie Mellon, and has taught human-centered research methods with top ratings. Now based in Toronto, he co-founded Punctual while guiding design strategy at Join, bringing an operator’s mindset to product, research, and design system thinking. An advocate for designers who can code, he’s known for turning opaque enterprise problems into clear, usable experiences that drive measurable business outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - Honors Specialization Media Information and Technoculture, Bachelor of Arts - Honors Specialization Media Information and Technoculture at Western UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science — Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI), Master's degree Computer Science — Human-Computer Interaction (MHCI) at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Russian, Hebrew
Github Skills (33)
fonts9
theme-ui9
logos9
css9
svg-font9
iconic9
branding9
font-awesome9
google-fonts9
woff9
music8
svg8
typescript8
microsoft8
electron7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
azilnik/phetch
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 3 months
azilnik/azilnik.github.io
Nov 2015 - Aug 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 42 pushes, 8 branches in 7 years 10 months
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