Charlie Chao
Product Designer at Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolCharlie Chao is a Product Designer and developer in Vancouver with 12 years of experience designing and shipping web and mobile products for companies like Clio, Facebook, Compass, and startups. He blends user experience research, interaction design, and front-end engineering (React, Swift, Flutter) to deliver accessible, technically feasible solutions and build design systems that scale. At Clio he led accessibility initiatives and created a visual system for client experiences; on the side he launched Sometime, a productivity app that scored 4.6/5 and 9,000+ downloads in its first month. Charlie frequently bridges gaps between design and engineering—publishing articles, building Figma/Sketch plugins used by thousands, and shipping production front-end features and custom integrations. He’s known for turning complex workflows into simple interfaces and for bringing measurable impact through user testing and pragmatic technical trade-offs.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Burnaby North SecondaryBachelor of Science (BSc), Interactive Arts and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (57)
sketch-plugin10
sketch-app10
obsidian10
adobe-xd10
sketch10
figma9
plugin9
san9
footnotes9
typography9
planning8
tidy8
query-language8
shortcuts8
typeface7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
charliecm/font-icons-workflow
Nov 2014 - Dec 2015
Contributions:8 commits, 1 push in 1 year
charliecm/obsidian-releases
Apr 2021 - Oct 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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