Josh Braun
Staff Product Designer at Databricks
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Braun is a Staff Product Designer with 11 years of experience crafting simple, delightful interfaces for web and mobile, now shaping product at Databricks after leading design at Dagster Labs. He blends hands-on front-end development and UI design—contributing to the popular open-source Dagster project’s documentation and brand refresh—with a data-informed, prototype-first approach. Josh excels at turning complex technical ideas into elegant, testable experiences, backed by a history of building design systems and retail apps for Fortune 500 clients. An optimist and lifelong learner, he pushes teams with high standards and measurable goals while staying obsessed with craft and detail. He is as comfortable shipping MDX components and style systems as he is running usability studies and iterating from real user feedback. Based in New York, he continually aims to make products that scale impact with minimal investment.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Communication and Design Arts, Bachelor's degree Communication and Design Arts at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Github Skills (21)
ui-components10
ui-design10
tailwindcss10
front-end-development10
react10
javascript9
css9
documentation8
analytics4
python4
workflow-automation3
mlops3
etl3
orchestra3
orchestration3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dagster-io/dagster
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & UI Designer
Front-end Developer & UI DesignerContributions:72 reviews, 4 commits, 69 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on front-end development and UI design tasks within the Dagster documentation site. Their contributions involved a brand refresh, including the addition of new fonts, logo updates, and style modifications. Key changes included updating code sample colors, search styles, and fixing various style issues on different pages. The user also worked on implementing a new button MDX component and other UI cleanup tasks.
operationpythonobservationschedulermetadata
braunjj/iamjoshbraun-blog
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:25 PRs, 116 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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