Josh Li
Head Of Design & Frontend at Orbital
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Li is a Fullstack Design Senpai with a decade of experience blending product design, React front-end engineering, and product leadership across startups and enterprise SaaS. He has led design and delivery transformations—most recently as Director of Product Design at Instana—and now applies fullstack design at Orbital, shipping web and mobile interfaces with a pragmatic Lean UX and Agile mindset. Comfortable as a hands-on UI engineer and a servant leader, he has driven migrations, built cross-functional teams, and evangelized Lean Startup practices in distributed environments. Bilingual in English and German and trained in media design (RFH Cologne), he pairs visual craft with engineering fluency to turn complex workflows into usable products. An unusual strength is his consistent role-bridging: from Chief Design Officer to front-end implementer, he reliably closes the gap between design intent and production reality.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
none, Regional Studies (China), none, Regional Studies (China) at University of CologneBachelor of Arts (B. A.), Media Design (Brand Management), Bachelor of Arts (B. A.), Media Design (Brand Management) at Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln
German, English, Chinese
Github Skills (61)
react-component-library10
react-components10
javascript10
rich-text10
text-editor10
browser10
material-ui10
editor10
material-design10
slate10
react10
rich-text-editor10
schema-validation9
redux9
console-log8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
be-gosu/issues
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 86 comments, 185 issues in 2 months
maddrag0n/uidesign-toolkit
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
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