Summary
Kevin Garcia is a UX leader with a decade of experience designing and shipping complex, large-scale interfaces for cloud and IoT platforms, currently managing UX for the OpenSearch Project at AWS in San Jose. He blends hands-on front-end development and visual design—having built design systems at Stanford and led major launches like OpenSearch 1.0 and Cold Storage—so he speaks fluently to designers and engineers alike. His work has improved product velocity and delivered measurable outcomes, including dramatic cost-savings for archival storage and new reporting capabilities. Kevin’s background ranges from enterprise IoT at Cisco to data-heavy SaaS and academic design systems, giving him unusually broad product empathy across consumer, research, and operator workflows. Known to “breathe design and sweat code,” he pairs creative craft with pragmatic delivery and a track record of scaling design teams and tooling.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Visual Art, Graphic Design, BA, Visual Art, Graphic Design at Andrews University
English, Spanish