Kyle Fiedler
Principal Product Designer at QuoteWell
Carlsbad, California, United States
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Top SchoolKyle Fiedler is a Principal Product Designer with 15 years of experience crafting simple, user-centered solutions to complex problems across startups and established teams. He blends research, design thinking, design sprints, and Jobs-to-be-done to rapidly validate ideas, ship early, and iterate toward product-market fit. Kyle has held leadership roles at thoughtbot and Consensys and now leads product design at QuoteWell, coaching teams while remaining hands-on in interaction and visual design. A seasoned full-stack contributor, he’s improved front-end UX and maintainability in notable open-source projects like thredded and thoughtbot/bitters. Based in Carlsbad, CA, he pairs pragmatic product instincts with a maker’s attention to detail—he even appreciates a perfectly cut peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Design and Visual Communications General, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA Design and Visual Communications General at Endicott College
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Github Skills (20)
ruby-rails10
css10
sass10
rails10
ruby10
html10
version-control10
management10
versioning10
testing9
javascript9
cli8
command-line-interface8
command-line8
css-frameworks6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/bitters
Jul 2013 - Feb 2015
Add a dash of pre-defined style to your Bourbon.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:120 commits, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily contributed to the Bitters project, a Sass library that adds style to Bourbon. Their work included implementing features like adding a --path option for installation, updating and removing Bitters files, and making the library compliant with Bourbon. They also bumped the version number several times, fixed failing tests, and removed unneeded styles, indicating a focus on improving the library's functionality and maintainability.
dashdefinedcssgardenbourbon
thredded/thredded
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
The best Rails forums engine ever.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 6 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kyle primarily focused on front-end development, implementing and styling UI components for the forum engine. They introduced new styles for topics, posts, and messageboards. Furthermore, the user made responsive navigation and refined the form designs. They also refactored and cleaned up code.
railsrails-engineevermessage-boardforum
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