Dan Rader
Director Of Product Design, UX Foundations
City of Syracuse, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDan Rader is a product design leader with a decade of experience building and scaling design systems and teams across consumer, creator, and enterprise products. Currently Director of Product Design, UX Foundations at Etsy, he previously led foundation and design systems efforts at Roblox, and architected a global design organization and the Apollo Enterprise Design System at Xplor. Dan combines craft-driven visual sensibility with systems thinking to unify cross-platform experiences from mobile and desktop to console and VR, while aligning design work to measurable business outcomes. He’s known for building high-performing teams—hiring, mentoring, and promoting designers and managers—and for evangelizing adoption of shared patterns that improve quality and speed. A former DC Design Week chair and self-described “type nerd,” he brings a rare mix of creative leadership and community-minded design advocacy. Based in Syracuse, NY, Dan’s background in music performance hints at a disciplined, collaborative approach to design and rhythm in product delivery.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MM, Music Performance – French Horn, MM, Music Performance – French Horn at Shenandoah University
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Github Skills (12)
static-site9
jekyll8
react7
css7
jamstack7
sketch4
plugin3
fill2
adobe-xd2
stock2
sketch-app2
sketch-plugin1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DanRader/ThatNewNew
Jan 2018 - Jan 2024
Repo for a new portfolio situation
Contributions:2 PRs, 114 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years
situation
DanRader/maggiegermano
Feb 2016 - Dec 2023
MG site
Contributions:2 releases, 8 PRs, 10593 pushes in 7 years 11 months
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