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
12 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 (21)
css10
svg9
music8
microsoft7
electron7
typescript7
audio7
ui-theme7
python6
editor5
machine-learning5
visual-studio-code5
ml3
node-module1
ui-components1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
azilnik/phetch
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes in 3 months
azilnik/bdsig
Jan 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 2 comments in 4 years 2 months
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