John Cassidy
Staff Product Designer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolJohn Cassidy is a Staff Product Designer based in New York with a decade of experience shaping large-scale consumer and experimental products across Google, YouTube, Jigsaw, and Area 120. He blends product design leadership with hands-on craft, having led design for Google Research incubations and co-created Area 120 projects before taking on staff roles at YouTube. His background spans agency work to in-house research teams, giving him a rare fluency in shipping polished interfaces while navigating ambiguous, research-driven problem spaces. Trained as a BFA graphic designer and later upskilled in front-end development, he often bridges visual design and engineering trade-offs to accelerate delivery. Colleagues know him for turning exploratory ideas into pragmatic product directions that scale across complex platforms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Wayne State UniversityMichigan State UniversityMott Community CollegeFront-End Development, Front-End Development at General AssemblyBFA, Graphic Design, BFA, Graphic Design at College for Creative Studies
Github Skills (22)
jigsaw10
conversation10
machine-learning-models10
cordova10
api10
dialogue-systems10
chromeos10
ios9
python9
linux9
windows9
android9
macos8
proxy-server8
machine-learning8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
favstats/perspectiveapi
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Perspective is an API that uses machine learning models to score the perceived impact a comment might have on a conversation. For support, see: https://support.perspectiveapi.com/
Contributions:22 commits in 1 day
apiperspectiveconversationmachine-learningmachine-learning-models
ohnocassio/Invitation-instructions
Aug 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:47 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.