Gavin Johns
Product Design at WhatsApp
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGavin Johns is a product designer and design leader with 10 years of experience blending architecture, urban design, and digital product work from San Francisco. He has scaled consumer-facing products at Opendoor—growing teams and launching new seller experiences across dozens of cities—and now leads product design at WhatsApp. As a co-founder of Architechie, he bridges the built environment and technology, bringing spatial thinking to digital interfaces and design systems. Gavin also advises startups on MVPs, research, and hiring, with a track record of shipping cross-product experiences that simplify complex workflows. His background in architecture and city planning gives him a unique systems-oriented approach to product design, especially in multi-product and marketplace contexts. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who pairs design leadership with hands-on craft.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Architecture, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Architecture at Georgia Institute of TechnologyArchitecture and Urbanism, Architecture and Urbanism at École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-La VilletteProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
gavinpjohns/FEWD
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:58 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
gavinpjohns/gvnjhns
May 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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