Summary
Gabriel Agu is a Lead Designer with 11 years of experience based in Amsterdam, known for untangling complexity where business goals and user needs intersect. At Booking.com he drives platform-wide UX vision, defines UI quality standards, and mentors designers while leading strategic work on partner-facing products and design systems. His hands-on background spans prototyping to front-end implementation and A/B experimentation, blending data-driven product improvements with scalable front-end and web component infrastructures. He also manages hiring and promotion processes, champions small-step experimentation, and has deep practical experience shipping iconography and performance optimizations at scale. Beyond corporate work he began as a freelance IA/UX and front-end developer, giving him a pragmatic builder’s mindset that informs platform strategy and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters at Universitatea din Bacău
High school degree, Theology/Theological Studies, High school degree, Theology/Theological Studies at St Joseph Theological High School, Bacau, Romania
English, Romanian, French