Gareth Jones
Head Of Design at ClickHouse
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGareth Jones is a Head of Design with 11 years' experience crafting product-led digital experiences at scale, currently shaping ClickHouse Cloud and its design system while building a global design team. He combines hands-on UI development (React, Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix) and native Swift iOS work with strategic design leadership, having previously led Elastic’s design organization through rapid growth and IPO readiness. Gareth is equally comfortable coding component libraries and refining documentation UX—as shown by front-end contributions to projects like ClickHouse docs and Elastic UI—bringing an engineer’s rigor to visual systems. Early web roots on GeoCities and FrontPage belie a modern toolkit (Figma, Sketch, Framer X) and a penchant for simplifying complex technical problems into human-friendly interfaces. Based in Charlotte, NC, he blends product, brand and code fluency to ship cohesive experiences end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development with Ajax Technologies Ruby on Rails, Web Development with Ajax Technologies Ruby on Rails at DePaul UniversityIntermediate Wine Appreciation Advanced Wine Appreciation, Intermediate Wine Appreciation Advanced Wine Appreciation at George Brown CollegeBA (Hons) International Business Management, BA (Hons) International Business Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University
English, French
Github Skills (18)
css-in-js10
css10
eui10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
system10
sys10
infographics10
docusaurus10
react10
documentation10
javascript9
ui-design9
typescript9
typescript-types9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/eui
Nov 2017 - Jul 2021
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily contributed to the Elastic UI (EUI) framework, focusing on the addition and maintenance of UI components, specifically icons. Their work included implementing new icons, such as those representing AWS, GCP, IBM, and email, and modifying existing icon sets. They also made changes to the documentation and TypeScript definitions related to these components.
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
ClickHouse/clickhouse-docs
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Official documentation for ClickHouse
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 13 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and visual aspects of the ClickHouse documentation website. Their work included fixing layout issues, adding exact sizes to logo SVGs, and implementing custom components and styles. They introduced new CSS rules to improve the look and feel of the website and refactored existing styles. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the documentation's user experience.
management-systemclickhouse-databasedatabase-management-systemclickhousedatabase
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