Summary
Luke Moderwell is a Principal product designer and front-end builder with 11 years of experience helping founder-led startups turn fragmented brand, product, and web needs into a single coherent system. He runs ModWorks, a one-person studio that collapses the usual stack of designers, developers, and agencies into a single senior relationship that preserves context across launches, rebrands, and product cleanups. His background spans roles at Mailchimp/Intuit and Product Forge, plus hands-on front-end and marketing experience earlier in his career, giving him both design craft and practical delivery skills. Comfortable shipping MVPs across diverse industries, he’s as fluent in building prototypes and interfaces as he is in aligning product strategy with brand. Based in the Cincinnati area, he combines entrepreneurial rigor from Miami University with a proven knack for reducing vendor fragmentation so small teams can move faster. Not obvious at first glance: he intentionally designs engagements to be lightweight and durable so one strong partner can carry institutional knowledge long after a launch.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Farmer School of Business, Interdisciplinary Business Management; Entrepreneurship, Farmer School of Business, Interdisciplinary Business Management; Entrepreneurship at Miami University
Libertyville High School
English