Eduardo Villuendas
Design Director, Other Bets at Automattic
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEduardo Villuendas is a Design Director at Automattic with a decade of experience shaping product and interface design across consumer apps and distributed-work tooling. He leads design for Automattic’s Other Bets—overseeing products like Pocket Casts, Day One, Newspack, Gravatar, and Sensei—bringing both strategic vision and hands-on craft. Previously he drove Happy Tools and P2 as the main product designer, and built internal tooling that enabled Automattic’s fully distributed operating model. His background spans UI/UX for high-profile clients (Google, BBVA, Coca‑Cola) and early mobile ad platforms, reflecting a blend of data-informed visualization and pragmatic product thinking. Educated in graphic design in Barcelona and Copenhagen, he also taught UI fundamentals, signaling a commitment to mentorship and design culture. Colleagues note his rare combination of systems-level product strategy with a restless attention to interface detail.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at ELISAVA Escola Universitària de Disseny i Enginyeria de BarcelonaErasmus, Graphic Design, Erasmus, Graphic Design at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (KADK)
Spanish, English
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
jetpack10
wordpress10
marketing10
redux10
plugin10
security10
php10
api10
wordpress-plugin10
js10
nodejs10
traffic10
react10
gutenberg6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
evilluendas/gravatar-analyzer
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
Automattic/react-big-calendar
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes in 28 days
outlookcalendar-componentcalendargcal
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