Arlo Guthrie
Senior Director, Product Design at Drata
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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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
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Github Skills (24)
accessibility10
p5js10
generative-art10
typescript9
react9
ui-components8
html6
codeigniter6
php6
css6
jquery6
gruntjs6
ajax6
design-tokens6
javascript6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
arlodesign/arlo-me
Nov 2018 - Jun 2025
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
arlodesign/sketchbook
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
Experiments with p5.js
Contributions:628 commits, 4 PRs, 763 pushes in 3 years 3 months
p5jsgenerative-art
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