Juhan Sonin
Director at GoInvo
Arlington, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuhan Sonin is a design-led product and service director with 11+ years in leadership roles and over two decades of experience blending industrial design, systems thinking, and service delivery. As Creative Director at GoInvo and a long-time MIT lecturer, he leads product strategy, operations, and design teams to ship impactful digital and physical experiences. His background spans government and research labs (MITRE, NCSA) where he built internal design practices and led open design initiatives that pushed organizational boundaries. Juhan pairs hands-on craft (interface and system modeling) with executive training from Harvard Business School, enabling him to translate high-level strategy into tangible products and services. He candidly documents lessons learned—from hard-won management missteps to creative victories—making him a pragmatic, reflective leader who values rigorous design and real-world impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Lexington High SchoolArt and Mechanical Engineering, Art and Mechanical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignExecutive Program AIGA Business Perspectives for Design Leaders, Executive Program AIGA Business Perspectives for Design Leaders at Harvard Business School
English, Estonian
Github Skills (30)
health10
doh9
visualization9
habits9
time-tracking9
health-data9
user-experience9
react8
javascript7
open-source7
user-interface7
data-visualization7
studio7
static-site6
data-viz6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jsonin/health
Oct 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
standardhealth/shr-design
Jun 2016 - Oct 2019
Standard Health Record
Contributions:48 commits, 10 PRs, 43 pushes in 3 years 5 months
recordhealth
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