Summary
Kenrick Rilee is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently building at Arcol after several impactful years at Figma. At Figma he led technical efforts and later managed the Editor Experience team, scaling it from 3 to 9 engineers while shipping core features like auto layout, hyperlinks, RTL support, variable fonts, and contributing to the FigJam launch. He excels at problems at the intersection of multiplayer collaboration, design systems, and layout with a track record of balancing hands-on engineering and people leadership. A Princeton-trained engineer and former founder, he brings product-minded engineering and a knack for delivering durable, backwards-compatible systems in collaborative design tools.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Princeton University