Jon Kerwin
Product Designer, Design Foundations
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJon Kerwin is a product designer specializing in design systems and foundations with 5+ years of focused experience shaping scalable design infrastructure at companies like Netflix, Zendesk, Roblox, and Thumbtack. He combines a marketing-rooted empathy for users with hands-on system thinking—anticipating designer and developer needs while balancing big-picture strategy and細gritty implementation. Known for building culture and cross-functional collaboration, he’s led teams and initiatives that make it easier for creators and product teams to ship consistent, usable interfaces at scale. Based in San Francisco with a BFA in Graphic Design, Jon excels at turning vague process pain points into repeatable systems that improve how people work together. Notably, he moved from general product work into a niche he’s passionate about: design foundations that reduce friction across large, distributed organizations.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design at West Chester University of Pennsylvania
English
Github Skills (3)
react8
react-components6
garden3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
zendeskgarden/react-components
Feb 2021 - Nov 2021
:seedling: garden React components
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 comment in 9 months
reactgardenseedlingreact-components
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