Josh Coppola
Principal UX Designer at Sedai
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Coppola is a Principal UX Designer in Seattle with 11 years of experience turning complex data problems into clear, usable interfaces for research, fintech, biotech, and web3 products. He combines human-centered design (MS HCDE, UW) with hands-on front-end coding—HTML, SCSS, Ruby on Rails, and JavaScript—to ship production-ready components and scalable design systems. Josh has led cross-functional teams to deliver data-heavy tools, from an Alzheimer’s dataset explorer for researchers to automated data collection and advanced query builders that saved partners thousands of hours. He also brings a research mindset from psycholinguistics and EEG work, using quantitative analysis to inform design decisions. An active contributor to open-source projects, he has improved simulation and map-generation tooling in the worldengine repo, demonstrating comfort with back-end feature development and platform compatibility fixes. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he balances strategic product vision with the technical fluency to close the gap between design and implementation.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Human Centered Design & Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Human Centered Design & Engineering at University of WashingtonBachelor of Arts (BA), Cognitive Science, Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Cognitive Science, Anthropology at The University of Connecticut
Github Skills (8)
numpy10
python10
image-processing10
map-generation10
algorithm9
algorithms9
github-ci3
githubaction-workflow3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Mindwerks/worldengine
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
World generator using simulation of plates, rain shadow, erosion, etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 19 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Josh contributed significantly to the `worldengine` project by implementing new features and improving existing ones. They added a new satellite map generation feature, including command-line arguments, function calls, and supporting draw functionality. The user also addressed compatibility issues by modifying the random number seed for 32-bit systems. Furthermore, they refactored code, cleaned up existing implementation, and enhanced the satellite map drawing capabilities with further refinements.
simulation
joshcoppola/it
Aug 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:461 commits, 96 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
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