Geordie Kaytes
Senior Director, Experience Design at PayPal
Salem, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolGeordie Kaytes is a senior product and design leader with 11 years of experience crafting developer-first experiences at PayPal, Salesforce, and Heroku, focused on making payments and platform tooling intuitive and even a little fun. He blends hands-on UX craft with strategic leadership—co-founding a product coaching firm and creating training programs—while owning design for CLI, API, and generative-AI developer tooling. Known for designing transparent, explainable AI assistants for developers and shipping platform features used across large ecosystems, he excels at the intersection of commerce, ethics, and developer experience. Based in Salem, Oregon, he brings a pragmatic mix of agency, startup, and enterprise practice that helps teams move from product vision to measurable developer adoption.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Political Science, BA Political Science at Yale University
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Github Skills (16)
heroku-cli10
npm-cli9
heroku9
soil8
cli8
buildpack8
unification6
noscript6
css6
javascript6
xhtml6
web-standards6
taxonomy4
simulation3
salesforce3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
didgeoridoo/heroic-site
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:8 pushes in 4 months
didgeoridoo/heroku-binary-buildpack
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Heroku buildpack to execute binaries.
Contributions:12 pushes in 7 days
heroku-buildpackherokubuildpackbinaries
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