Bill Couch
Senior Engineering Manager at Figma
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Couch is a senior engineering manager with 14 years of experience building consumer products and the platforms that power them, currently leading teams at Figma in New York. He has a deep web and multimedia background from early roles at Twitter, where he scaled teams across web, mobile, and backend to ship live video, conversation, and subscription features. Known for growing engineers into Senior and Staff roles, he blends hands-on product engineering with organizational design and cross-functional partnership to increase product impact and revenue. His career began in journalism-focused design and interactive graphics, which informs a strong product sense for storytelling and UX. Outside of work he brings a creative, active perspective—he’s an avid photographer, runner, and cyclist—that surfaces in thoughtful team leadership and attention to craft.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Communication Studies Screen Arts and Cultures, BA Communication Studies Screen Arts and Cultures at University of MichiganDiploma, Diploma at West Ottawa High School
German
Github Skills (41)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
couch/couch.github.com
Jun 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:38 pushes in 8 years 1 month
couch/react-blur
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
react-componentreactbackgrounds
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