Summary
Corey Daniels is a product design leader with a decade of experience building design systems, digital products, and startups, currently directing Product Design at DebtBook. He blends industrial and product design roots with hands-on software and prototyping experience, enabling pragmatic design decisions that scale from hardware mockups to SaaS interfaces. As co-founder of Polymer (acquired in 2025) and founder of Alkime, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with team-building and product strategy chops. His background includes leading design systems and hybrid designer-engineer roles at Skookum and Evolve Service Software, giving him fluency in both visual craft and implementation. Known as a "code-friendly designer," he moves comfortably between design tools, front-end constraints, and business metrics to ship features that matter. Based in the United States, he brings a practical, systems-oriented approach informed by industrial design training from Appalachian State University.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial and Product Design at Appalachian State University