Carrie Winfrey
Founder & Designer at Okthanks
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarrie Winfrey is a product designer and founder with a decade of experience making privacy- and security-focused technologies usable for at-risk communities. As founder of Okthanks and Lead Designer at Guardian Project, she combines human-centered research with hands-on UX to shape tools for secure communication, censorship circumvention, and privacy-preserving measurement. Carrie has a track record of translating complex adversary and operational contexts into practical product decisions, securing funding and coordinating multidisciplinary teams to deliver real-world impact. Her background spans formal interaction design training (MFA) and diverse fieldwork—she balances high tolerance for chaos in complex projects with a discipline for clear product vision. Peers credit her with changing workflows across the digital security community, and she regularly runs user workshops and multilingual research to ground strategy in lived experience.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Architecture, Masters Architecture at Kansas State UniversityMFA Interaction Design Interaction Design, MFA Interaction Design Interaction Design at School of Visual Arts
Github Skills (47)
censorship-circumvention10
anonymity10
anticensorship10
termux10
security10
tor10
browser9
sensor9
android9
gitlab9
privacy8
closed8
ios8
objective-c8
iphone7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Okthanks/field-kit
Aug 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
zom/Zom-Assets
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
Zom graphics assets shared betwen iOS, Android and website
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 year 1 month
ios-androidandroidiosassetsgraphics
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