Derry Birkett
Head Of UX at CloudBees
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolDerry Birkett is a seasoned UX leader and founder with 11 years of focused experience designing and scaling design systems, product UX, and cross-functional design teams from Barcelona. He has led UX strategy and operations at enterprise platforms like CloudBees and Oracle, building design systems, ResearchOps, and onboarding experiences that reduce friction across complex developer workflows. As Founder of Monospace Studio he now advises on design leadership, platform UX and explores AI-native product design and agentic workflows while building internal tooling. He combines hands-on product design with people leadership, having managed and mentored distributed teams of designers to raise craft, ownership and strategic impact. Multilingual and internationally seasoned, Derry pairs creative digital art direction and front-end chops from eCommerce and startup ventures with enterprise-scale systems thinking. A not-obvious strength: he translates deep operational understanding of developer tooling into accessible UX that democratizes complex domains like material science and DevOps.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Systems Analysis/Analyst, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Systems Analysis/Analyst at University of the West of England
English, Spanish, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
javascript9
simulation-modeling9
relationship9
materials-informatics9
declarative9
chemistry9
react9
frontend9
user-interface8
cloud-computing7
typescript7
html6
jquery-ui6
asset-pipeline6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
derrybirkett/usher
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:41 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
derrybirkett/jblyr
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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