Jake Herschman
Staff Product Designer at Drexel University's Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolJake Herschman is a Staff Product Designer based in Philadelphia with four years of concentrated experience crafting accessible, intuitive digital experiences across enterprise and consumer products. He has progressed from designer roles at Razorfish Health and Comcast to senior and leadership positions at HashiCorp, and now shapes product direction at Stripe while teaching design as an adjunct at Drexel University. Jake blends hands-on UX craft with team leadership and a systems-minded approach informed by his dual background in graphic design and information systems. He prioritizes accessibility and user-focused problem solving, often translating complex technical constraints into clear, user-friendly interfaces. Beyond product work, his teaching and early IT/robotics roles suggest a knack for mentoring and bridging design with technical implementation.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic Design, Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Graphic Design, Information Systems at Drexel UniversityMorris Knolls High School
Github Skills (25)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
data-center10
distributed-systems10
consul10
infrastructure10
service-discovery10
api-gateway10
vault10
golang10
microservices10
cloud-native10
near-real-time9
gateway9
ingress8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul-ui-toolkit
Apr 2023 - Aug 2023
A collection of presentational components and utilities specifically meant to be shared across the different Consul applications.
Contributions:6 reviews, 9 comments in 3 months
hashicorp/consul
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.
Contributions:20 reviews, 18 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
api-gatewayecsgolangcenterdistributed
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