Connor Thorson
Product Designer at Vast
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Thorson is a Product Designer with nine years of experience crafting accessible, high-fidelity interfaces and bridging design with front-end development. Based in Oak Park, Illinois, he combines UI design tools (Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch) with practical development skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Django, Electron) to ship polished web and desktop experiences. Connor has built and maintained 50+ WordPress sites, optimized performance and security across diverse industries, and contributed interactive mapping interfaces using Leaflet and external APIs for the EPA. His work balances analytics-driven iteration with hands-on implementation, from plugin and CDN optimizations to diagnosing security incidents. He brings a DEI-minded perspective from agency and enterprise roles and a habit of turning complex stakeholder requirements into inclusive, production-ready designs.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Interactive Digital Studies, Bachelor’s Degree, Interactive Digital Studies at University of Northern Iowa
English, German
Github Skills (7)
django-blog8
django5
css4
python4
javascript3
react3
html2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mvgni/mvgni.github.io
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
Portfolio
Contributions:1 PR, 113 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
cssjavascriptreact
mvgni/gunnar-portfolio
May 2020 - May 2021
Contributions:7 PRs, 33 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year
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