Krispin Leydon
Staff UI UX Designer at Epicore Biosystems
San Carlos, California, United States
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Top SchoolKrispin Leydon is a Staff UI/UX Designer blending engineering rigor with soulful, human-centered design across consumer products and energy systems. With eight years of professional experience and roles spanning Walt Disney Animation, Tesla’s first electric car UI, and Angaza’s off-grid energy platform reaching 20M+ households, Krispin excels at translating complex technical systems into delightful, usable interfaces. Currently at Gradient and consulting for Epicore Biosystems, they focus on resilient product design that bridges research, visualization, and real-world field work. Their academic grounding in engineering and animation (Dartmouth) and an MSc from the University of Limerick complements hands-on research collaborations with labs like MIT and the European Media Lab. Beyond studios and screens, Krispin’s field research in Kenya and India and a two-thousand-mile Appalachian Trail thru-hike inform a design perspective rooted in context, endurance, and ecosystems. They aim to tame technology for human use, pursuing a more resilient, humane future through thoughtful interaction and systems design.
8 years of coding experience
Buckingham Friends SchoolGeorge SchoolBE, BE at Dartmouth CollegeMSc, MSc at University of Limerick
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Github Skills (129)
postgresql10
expressjs10
rest-api10
javascript10
middleware10
rest10
database10
sqlite10
cockroachdb10
mysql10
mariadb10
typescript10
prisma10
sql-server10
microsoft-sql-server10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kleydon/rn-audio
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
React native module for recording and playing audio
Contributions:2 releases, 94 PRs, 127 pushes in 2 years 7 months
audioreact-native-module
kleydon/Customizable-Button-Demo-OSX-Swift
May 2019 - Nov 2021
Customizable button class for cocoa / OSX, written in Swift. Permits customizing colors, border radii, roll-over hover highlighting, and more. Customizeable from within InterfaceBuilder.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 6 months
interface-builderswiftbuttoncocoacustomizable
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