Ky Decker
Co-Founder at Namesake Collaborative
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKy Decker is a Brooklyn-based design engineer and co-founder with 11 years of experience crafting product design, UX engineering, and design systems for companies like Cityblock, Dropbox, and Swiftype. They specialize in bridging design and front-end implementation—establishing Cityblock’s first UX Engineering role and shepherding a company-wide design-system and tooling migration to Figma. Ky pairs hands-on coding with mentorship and systems work for small and mid-sized teams, and has freelanced on branding and web projects while leading accessibility-forward typography and component decisions. Known jokingly as a "digital janitor" on GitHub, they quietly clean up product UX and ship polished details, from icons to multi-channel messaging tools. Their unusual background in professional theatre keyboard work and a BA in Music informs a thoughtful, collaborative approach to rhythm and iteration in product teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Music at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Github Skills (200)
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hybrid10
animation10
starlight10
architecture10
browser10
react-component10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
namesakefyi/namesake
Sep 2024 - Apr 2025
Web app to aid with the legal name and gender marker change process in the U.S.
Contributions:106 reviews, 443 PRs, 646 pushes in 7 months
convexlegal-techlgbtname-changet4t
evadecker/eva.town
Dec 2018 - Mar 2025
A digital garden by Eva Decker, design engineer.
Contributions:732 PRs, 932 pushes, 747 branches in 6 years 4 months
cssartastrodesigndigital-gardening
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