Kyle Peatt
Co-Founder Chief Design & Product Officer at Lantern
Victoria, British Columbia, Australia
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Top SchoolKyle Peatt is a product and design leader with 14 years of experience scaling design teams and systems, best known for creating Shopify’s Polaris design system and leading UX for Shopify’s core product. As Co-Founder and Chief Design & Product Officer at Lantern, he blends strategic design leadership with hands-on product execution, coaching organizations from startups to enterprises on experience strategy and design operations. He has a proven track record of building disciplined teams—at one point directing ~150 people—and instituting practices like federated design contributions and peer critique to raise design quality. A sociologist by training with a background in digital graphics, Kyle brings a rare mix of human-centered thinking and technical design systems expertise. Off-hours, he’s an avid NYTimes Daily Mini player who values low-key, direct communication (email preferred).
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Sociology, Bachelor of Arts Sociology at University of VictoriaBachelor of Arts Sociology, Bachelor of Arts Sociology at The University of British ColumbiaBachelor of Arts English, Bachelor of Arts English at Okanagan University CollegeDiploma Digital Graphics Communications, Diploma Digital Graphics Communications at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)
English, French
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Github Skills (114)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kennethormandy/writing
Mar 2015 - Aug 2022
Write in the open so your friends can tell you when you're wrong
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 6 months
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mobify/pikabu
Aug 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 23 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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