Summary
Gabriel Albo is a Senior Product Designer based in Berlin with 15+ years of hands-on experience bridging product design, UX, and front-end development across industries including retail, automotive, health, and education. He has led design practices and grown teams at ThoughtWorks—expanding the Latin America UX practice from under 10 to over 80 designers—and now shapes product experience at Zalando. Comfortable from discovery to delivery, he combines workshop facilitation, user research and interaction design with pragmatic business analysis and agile delivery. A mentor and trainer, he spent a year shaping ThoughtWorks University curriculum and continues to coach designers and cross-functional teams. Known for putting “people over pixels,” Gabriel pairs technical fluency with a human-centered approach that prioritizes wellbeing, measurable impact and sustainable team growth.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Information Systems at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, German