Janet Hwu
Founding UX Designer at Ironflow AI
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolJanet Hwu is a founding UX designer with eight years of cross-industry experience designing multimodal products that blend digital and physical interaction, from Shanghai Disney attractions to AI-powered drones and autonomous trucking fleets. She excels at leading cross-functional teams and external vendors through concept-to-implementation lifecycles, combining systems thinking with a pragmatic awareness of engineering and operational constraints. At startups and defense-focused companies she has translated complex domain requirements into consumer-grade interfaces and product strategy, often serving as sole designer or product lead. Known for field-driven research and hands-on prototyping, she pairs emotional, human-centered experiences with rigorous usability testing and production-ready specifications. An unusual strength is her background in themed entertainment production, which informs her ability to design immersive, large-scale installations and streamlined installation pipelines. Based in San Diego, she brings a track record of reducing production risk and driving measurable outcomes like site-traffic lifts and faster construction timelines.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Methods, Web Development Methods at UC San Diego Extended StudiesBachelor of Science (B.S.) Engineering: Product Design, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Engineering: Product Design at Stanford University
English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese
Github Skills (18)
sveltekit10
business-analytics10
duckdb10
sql10
golang10
parquet10
csv10
nodejs10
data-visualization10
svelte10
data-analysis10
postgresql9
analytics9
mongoose4
mongodb3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jkhwu/hoodHawk
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:29 pushes, 22 branches in 1 month
jkhwu/tentativeBoardGameApp
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 5 branches in 16 days
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