Garrett Galayda
Staff Experience Designer at PayPal
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarrett Galayda is a Staff Experience Designer based in Chicago with 15 years in user-centered product design and front-end development, currently shaping experiences at PayPal. He combines leadership roles across fintech and startups—having led design at Braintree and owned a consumer hardware business—to translate business goals into balanced, user-first solutions. Skilled at building clickable prototypes and production-ready front-end work, he bridges design and engineering to accelerate validation and delivery. Garrett’s background founding companies and running a design studio gives him a pragmatic, product-minded edge that informs cross-functional collaboration. Known for advocating for users while embracing new technologies, he brings both craft and operational insight to complex product challenges.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
AS Associates Applied Science, AS Associates Applied Science at Moraine Valley Community CollegeBS Visual Communications - Multimedia, BS Visual Communications - Multimedia at International Academy of Design and Technology
Github Skills (3)
boilerplate3
webpack2
sass2
Github contributions (3)
fireintheattic/static-starter-project
Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 3 months
webpacksassboilerplate
fireintheattic/portfolio
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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