Ela Siwy
Associate Lecturer MA Design For Industry 5.0
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEla Siwy is a multidisciplinary designer and former senior software engineer with 11 years of experience who now teaches as an Associate Lecturer on the MA Design for Industry 5.0 at Central Saint Martins. She founded Kivi Studio to explore product and industrial design through responsible, human-centered innovation, leveraging a strong technical background from roles at Gladly and early engineering internships including Google and TransferWise. At Gladly she led cross-functional projects that improved search relevance and multilingual knowledge-base capabilities, demonstrating an ability to translate complex technical systems into better user experiences. Her academic training blends Imperial College engineering rigor with RCA design thinking, positioning her to bridge software, data-driven systems, and physical product design. Actively shifting her career toward industrial and product design, she is seeking studio internships where her rare combination of hands-on engineering, ML-informed product work, and design pedagogy can accelerate tangible, responsible outcomes. An understated strength is her track record of turning research and prototypes into measurable impact—doubling search CTRs and enabling international product adoption.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MA and Msc Innovation Design Engineering, MA and Msc Innovation Design Engineering at Imperial College LondonMA and MSc Innovation Design Engineering, MA and MSc Innovation Design Engineering at Royal College of Art
English, Polish, German
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Github Skills (55)
documentation-generator9
homebrew9
nodejs9
api-documentation9
macos9
openapi8
bezier8
api8
elasticsearch-client8
swagger8
api-blueprint8
printing8
golang7
redoc7
voxel-engine7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
kivistudio/p5.fab
Feb 2023 - Mar 2024
A p5js library for digital fabrication!
Contributions:8 pushes in 1 year
malpiatko/thesis
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
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