Arlo Guthrie
Senior Director, Product Design at Drata
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolArlo Guthrie is a product design leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling design systems and cross-functional teams, now serving as Senior Director of Product Design at Drata in Chicago. He blends human-centered design thinking with product ownership and agile practice to align designers, engineers, and execs around measurable business outcomes. Arlo has led enterprise and open-source design systems—from Fiber at BCBS to InstructureUI—enabling hundreds of engineers and designers to ship consistent, accessible interfaces. Known for translating design principles into CI-backed tooling and governance, he brings both hands-on front-end development roots and strategic leadership to complex, regulated environments. A former founder and longtime practitioner of design development, he pairs creative beginnings in branding and theatre with practical systems thinking to drive innovation.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Visual Communications, BFA Visual Communications at The Art InstitutesBA Theatre Arts, BA Theatre Arts at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (21)
accessibility10
javascript10
p5js10
generative-art10
typescript9
component-library9
react9
ui-components8
csscomb8
css6
documentation5
webpack5
sublime5
design-tokens5
plug3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arlodesign/sketchbook
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
Experiments with p5.js
Contributions:628 commits, 4 PRs, 763 pushes in 3 years 3 months
generative-artjavascriptp5-jsp5jssketches
martykimmel/chicago-design-systems
May 2017 - Oct 2022
Website for Chicago Design Systems group
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 6 months
design-systemscssreactchicago
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