Derek Onay
Senior Product Designer - Design Systems at Rocket Money
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Onay is a Senior Product Designer based in Indianapolis with a decade of experience crafting design systems, improving web accessibility, and defining product strategy across startups and enterprise SaaS. He combines hands-on UI development roots with product leadership—helping teams ship award-winning healthcare apps, improve customer satisfaction, and scale design systems to cut design and development costs. Skilled in research-driven design and cross-functional facilitation, Derek has acted as both designer and product manager to align stakeholders and prioritize outcomes. He leads with empathy and a continuous-feedback mindset, and has a track record of mentoring junior designers and embedding accessibility and analytics into product workflows. Currently driving design systems at Rocket Money, he’s motivated to “build the next cool thing” by turning messy problems into usable, compliant, and measurable products.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science at Ball State University
German, English
Github Skills (32)
bootstrap10
css10
uikit10
ui-components8
angular-framework6
truetype5
font-size5
opentype5
fonts4
webfonts4
fontello4
sdk4
angular3
javascript3
typescript3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Availity/availity-uikit
Oct 2015 - Jan 2018
Availity UI Kit powered by Bootstrap 4
Contributions:7 releases, 25 commits, 14 PRs in 2 years 3 months
availity-uikitbootstrap4cssbootstrap-4availity
Availity/availity-angular
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 months
javascriptangular-sdksdkavailityuikit
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