Canyon Boak
Product Design Manager at Drivemode
Chiyoda, Japan
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Top SchoolCanyon Boak is a Product Design Manager with 11 years of experience crafting user-centered software through generative and evaluative research, rapid hypothesis testing, and close collaboration with engineering teams. He combines deep interface design and product strategy expertise with hands-on development skills in iOS (Swift), TDD, and XP practices, enabling pragmatic, test-driven delivery. Having led design at Shopify and Drivemode and enabled Japanese-speaking client teams at Pivotal Labs, he brings cross-cultural fluency and facilitation skills that accelerate distributed teams. His academic background in linguistics, anthropology, and Japanese/Russian studies lends a rare sensitivity to language, culture, and communication in product design.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
関西外国語大学 / Kansai Gaidai UniversityBachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Anthropology, Japanese, Russian, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Anthropology, Japanese, Russian at University of Colorado at Boulder
English, Japanese, Russian, Chinese
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Github Skills (11)
encapsulation9
unit-test9
refactor7
architecture7
unit-testing6
testing6
bus-tracking5
bus4
nodejs2
backend2
typescript1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
immenor/kuruyo-node-ts
Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
Backend for Kuruyo Bus Tracking App in Node.JS & TypeScript
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
node-jsexpressbustrackingbackend
immenor/Succinct
Dec 2018 - Nov 2019
Write de-coupled BDD-style tests for your iOS apps.
Contributions:30 pushes, 7 branches in 11 months
bdd-styletestingcoupledbddios
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