Summary
Claudia Shao is a UX Designer II based in San Francisco with eight years of experience blending user-centered design and software engineering to build accessible, product-focused experiences. She has progressed through multiple UX roles at Amazon and served in content strategy and design positions at Meta, NBCUniversal, and Estée Lauder, giving her a rare mix of enterprise product design and cross-disciplinary creative experience. Claudia holds both BS and MS degrees from NYU in Integrated Design & Media and Computer Science and Engineering, enabling her to bridge visual design, interaction, and technical implementation. She focuses on accessibility and usability at scale, pairing hands-on prototyping and front-end development with strategic content and design systems work. Notably, her background spans internships to senior roles across tech and media, so she brings a pragmatic understanding of how design decisions impact business and engineering trade-offs.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Engineering at New York University
Chinese, Spanish, English, Japanese