Summary
David Demaree is a founder-CEO and product leader with 19 years of experience building high-performance web products and design-driven developer tools. He runs Bits&Letters, a NYC-area agency where he balances executive duties with hands-on work—selling, designing in Figma, and shipping Svelte, React, and WordPress code. His product leadership includes senior roles at Webflow, Stripe, Google (leading Google Fonts), and Adobe, giving him deep expertise at the intersection of typography, design systems, and developer experience. Equally comfortable in engineering and product strategy, he has moved repeatedly between coding and PM roles, turning platform-level thinking into user-facing features. Trained in film, video, and new media, he brings an uncommon creative perspective to technical product decisions.
19 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BFA Film/Video/New Media Painting, BFA Film/Video/New Media Painting at School of the Art Institute of Chicago