Fred Truman
VP Of Product Design at MongoDB
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFred Truman is a product design leader with 11 years of experience who currently serves as VP of Product Design at MongoDB in New York, scaling design organizations and shaping developer-facing products. He has a track record of building distributed, multidisciplinary teams—from growing a direct team to ~25 FTE and expanding UX research from 1 to 8—while introducing the company’s first cross-discipline career matrix and lightweight product review processes. Hands-on early in his career, Fred contributed UX and front-end work to flagship tools like MongoDB Compass and Atlas, blending detailed UI craftsmanship (styling, layout, interaction) with executive strategy. He’s equally comfortable coaching individual contributors into managers, hiring globally (including Berlin and Sydney), and driving visual brand refreshes that align design systems with engineering partnerships. His background spans product design, UX research, and design systems with an uncommon blend of hands-on GUI contributions to a major open-source-adjacent tool and senior organizational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York UniversityBA, Visual Communication Design, BA, Visual Communication Design at The George Washington UniversityBusiness Perspectives for Creative Leaders, Business Perspectives for Creative Leaders at Yale School of Management
Github Skills (6)
uid10
javascript10
windows-gui10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb-js/compass
Apr 2016 - Jun 2018
The GUI for MongoDB.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 2 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Fred primarily contributed to the user interface of the MongoDB Compass GUI. Their work included design tweaks, such as whitespace adjustments, disabling user-select on tabs, and modifications to schema field nesting styles. They implemented and styled index definition views, including changes to table layouts, hover effects, and the addition of a warning icon. They also addressed styling and layout issues related to the instance header, tabs, and charts.
compassmongodbguimongoose-plugin
fredtruman/fredtruman.com
Apr 2015 - Oct 2019
Creating an Express app to potentially host a new version of my portfolio site
Contributions:84 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
reacthostexpressjsjavascriptexpress
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