Summary
David Thorn is a product designer with 11 years of experience crafting systems-focused user experiences across data and SaaS products, currently shaping product at Baseten in California. He has led design for orchestration, cost management, and observability workflows at dbt Labs, built AI agent experiences and maintained organization-wide design systems and themes. David combines hands-on design and code contributions—having committed to codebases and shipped CI, caching, and enterprise security flows—to shorten developer feedback loops and improve release confidence. As a founding designer at startups like Airhouse and Compute Software, he has repeatedly translated complex operational domains (ecommerce fulfillment, cloud scaling, energy products) into usable, enterprise-ready interfaces. He studied Graphic Design at California College of the Arts and favors designing systems, not just design systems—a perspective reflected in his cross-disciplinary work bridging product, engineering, and documentation.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design at California College of the Arts
English, Spanish