Derek Gulbranson
Senior Product Designer (Contractor) at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Gulbranson is a Senior Product Designer with 15+ years crafting web and mobile experiences for startups and large enterprises, currently contracting at Apple from his base in San Francisco. He blends research-led, user-focused methods with hands-on interaction and visual design, having led product discovery and UX strategy at companies like Lithium, MetaBrite, and HubPages. Comfortable operating across design, front-end implementation, and remote research, he’s repeatedly rescued products from technical and design debt to deliver clearer, higher-impact experiences. His background includes founding niche product ventures and working internationally in Cairo, which sharpened his ability to adapt design processes to different cultures and distributed teams. Known for integrating user research into agile workflows, he brings both entrepreneurial curiosity and the discipline to ship polished, measurable product outcomes.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of WolverhamptonBFA, BFA at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, English
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Github Skills (39)
parser10
python10
text-parser10
syntax10
dictionary10
parsing10
text-processing10
django-project8
django-framework7
django-cms7
django7
nested6
user-experience6
rollout6
django-widget6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gdsaxton/python-nameparser
Feb 2011 - Apr 2014
Contributions:50 commits in 3 years 2 months
derek73/python-nameparser
Feb 2011 - Nov 2022
Contributions:32 releases, 18 reviews, 360 commits in 11 years 11 months
individualpythontext-parserhuman-parsingtext-processing
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