Kalyn Nakano
Product Design Manager at Instagram
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolKalyn Nakano is a Product Design Manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience blending software engineering and design to create thoughtful, future-facing products. She has progressed from software and interaction roles into leadership positions at IDEO, Sonder, and Instagram, where she currently leads product design efforts. Trained in computer science at USC and with roots in web, audio, and visual media, she brings technical fluency to design strategy and cross-functional collaboration. Known for translating complex technical constraints into elegant user experiences, she prefers exploring long-term product visions at the intersection of technology and human behavior. Her background—spanning hands-on development internships to principal design roles—gives her a rare mix of executional depth and creative systems thinking.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaWeb/Audio Engineering, Graphic Design, Digital Photography, Web/Audio Engineering, Graphic Design, Digital Photography at Freestyle Academy of Communication Arts & TechnologyGithub contributions (1)
sccouch/DriveLA
Apr 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:11 commits in 25 days
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