Jesse Hoek
Senior Product Designer at Tailscale
Canada
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Top SchoolJesse Hoek is a product designer with 11 years of experience specializing in developer tools and technical domains, currently building Switchboard—the customer console for GitLab Dedicated. With a background in computer science and an HCI specialization from the University of Waterloo, he combines front-end engineering roots with design leadership to deliver developer-facing UX at Shopify and GitLab. He has led multi-industry projects at a design consultancy and shipped tooling for Shopify’s app platform, demonstrating comfort across both product strategy and hands-on interaction design. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, Jesse brings a practical, systems-minded approach to complex workflows and developer ergonomics. He’s equally fluent sketching flows and iterating on code-proximal prototypes, often bridging gaps between engineering and product teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Human Computer Interaction Option, Co-operative Program, Bachelor of Computer Science Human Computer Interaction Option, Co-operative Program at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (15)
cors8
actions-on-google7
to-do7
dialogflow7
cross-domain6
javascript5
firebase4
redux2
react-native2
android-app2
progressive2
progressive-web-apps1
ios1
conversational-ui1
android-apps1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jessechk/jessechk.github.io
Jun 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:62 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
hippothesis/Recipezy
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:30 commits in 1 month
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