Derek Shirk
Senior Product Designer at Skylight
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Shirk is a Senior Product Designer and design leader with 11+ years crafting end-to-end consumer experiences and design systems, currently based in Portland, Oregon. He helped scale Driveway’s web product from a few monthly sales to thousands, aligning design strategy with executive goals and business metrics. A hands-on Figma expert and front-end enthusiast, Derek pairs rapid prototyping and user research with systems-thinking to deliver scalable, user-tested solutions. He’s known for elevating team craft through coaching, workshops, internal toolkits, and custom Figma plugins that streamline workflows beyond surface UI. Co-host of the Multiplayer Design Podcast and a former agency co-founder, he brings a mix of creative entrepreneurship and practical product rigor. Teammates credit him for outcomes-first leadership that balances curious experimentation with measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Multimedia and Graphic Arts at University of Oregon
sass, css, php, jquery, javascript
Stackoverflow
187reputation
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Github Skills (40)
in-progress9
twig9
css8
choices8
service-worker8
javascript8
netlify8
eleventy7
webapp7
react7
partials6
html6
component-library6
sass6
wordpress6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
derekshirk/personal-site-2020
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
An in-progress personal site project built with Eleventy, hosted with Netlify
Contributions:298 commits, 376 PRs, 306 pushes in 3 years 7 months
eleventyhostedin-progressjamstacknetlify
derekshirk/Personal-Blog
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:51 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
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