Leya Baltaxe-admony
User Experience Researcher - Accessibility - Via Magnit at Google
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolLeya Baltaxe-admony is a User Experience Researcher and accessibility specialist with a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction and eight years of multidisciplinary experience spanning academia, industry research, and startup leadership. She combines deep human-centered and participatory design expertise—especially around disability, equity, and orientation & mobility—with hands-on product development, currently supporting Google’s Products for All team via Magnit. As co-founder of a medtech startup, she translated academic research into a funded MVP through extensive stakeholder interviews and NSF I-Corps work, demonstrating rare fluency across market validation, prototyping, and clinical collaboration. Her background in robotics and systems design informs a practical approach to accessibility research that emphasizes real-world deployment and cross-functional team leadership. Based in Sacramento, she brings both rigorous scientific methods and entrepreneurial grit to R&D and UX roles.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzProgramming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bbaltaxe/wfc-piano-roll
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes in 1 day
bbaltaxe/basicneeds
Sep 2020 - Jul 2021
Contributions:6 reviews, 29 PRs, 71 pushes in 10 months
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