Jd Welch
Senior Product Designer at Spotify
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolJd Welch is a Senior Product Designer based in Stockholm with 13 years of experience designing tools for complex, expert workflows. He currently leads UX for Spotify’s experimentation platform and a new metrics product, and contributes to Backstage, applying product-first thinking to developer-facing systems. Previously a Principal UX Architect at Puppet and a UX designer at Microsoft, he specializes in end-to-end, full-stack design—research, diagrams, prototypes, docs and hands-on interaction work—so his solutions bridge design, product and engineering. He has a longstanding habit of eschewing rigid discipline boundaries, embedding himself in teams to own outcomes rather than titles. Comfortable with both enterprise-scale systems and developer tooling, he focuses on making powerful software genuinely usable for smart people with complicated jobs. His background in art history and early front-end work gives him a visual-first sensibility that informs clear, practical interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Art History, BA, Art History at Purchase College, SUNY
English
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Github Skills (53)
infrastructure10
microservices10
points10
puppet9
provisioning9
backstage9
dx9
rfc9
service-catalog8
specification8
aws8
gcp8
catalog8
vagrant7
azure7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jdwelch/lyra
Dec 2018 - May 2019
Open Source Workflow Engine for Cloud Native Infrastructure
Contributions:1 PR, 58 pushes, 27 branches in 5 months
orchestrationworkflow-engineinfrastructurekubernetescloudnative
jdwelch/jdwelch
Jan 2022 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
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