Summary
Cristobal Samanez is a design technologist and senior software engineer with a decade of experience crafting product-focused UX and interaction systems, currently leading design and engineering at Centauri Health Solutions. He blends product design, front-end engineering, and design-system architecture—having driven major UX pattern work and Figma/React libraries at GoDaddy and built accessible design systems for Trackit Labs. As founder of Ray, he shipped an end-to-end iOS and web reading app, owning branding, UX, and the React Native codebase, showing a rare full-stack product ownership mindset. Based in Phoenix and trained in Math & Computer Science at UIUC, he excels at turning nuanced interaction problems into scalable components and tooling, including Figma plugins and governance workflows. Colleagues rely on him to bridge strategy and implementation, from accessibility compliance to modal/bottom-sheet modality overhauls that improve cross-team developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
American School Foundation
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Gulliver Preparatory
English, Spanish, German, Portuguese