Carl Nelson
Senior Design Manager at Datadog
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Nelson is a Senior Design Manager based in San Francisco with 11 years in product design and nine years leading design teams at fast-moving, industry-leading companies. He specializes in systems-thinking product design, crafting visions that transform both business outcomes and user capabilities while setting a high bar for holistic quality. A thoughtful people manager and mentor, he focuses on leveling up designers’ skills and career trajectories across organizations from Lyft and Toast to Datadog. Carl has led design at scale in both startups and large enterprises and consistently builds inclusive teams that elevate under-served voices. His background in philosophy and physics underpins a pragmatic, analytical approach to complex design systems and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Physics, Physics at Rochester Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA Philosophy at Concordia University
French, English
Github Skills (3)
react9
frontend8
javascript8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Clever/design-system-prototype
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
reactdesign-system
CarlNelson/920-special-static
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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