Madeline Fortner
Lead Product Designer - UDS at Defense Unicorns
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMadeline Fortner is a Lead Product Designer with four years of experience crafting technology-driven, human-centered experiences that prioritize authentic communication. Based in Fort Worth, she blends a strong social sciences background (Master’s in Communication, BA in Social Work, magna cum laude) with practical product wins—ranging from a Best Product-winning document management UX to a website lead funnel that boosted conversions by 400%. At Defense Unicorns she leads product design for UDS, and her work spans omnichannel customer journeys, automated touchpoints, and market-diffusion strategies for complex biotech launches. Known on GitHub as an “Empathizer in Chief,” she brings a rare mix of empathy-driven research and measurable business impact to design problems.
4 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Social Work, Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Social Work, Magna Cum Laude at Abilene Christian University
English
Github Skills (27)
kubernetes10
devsecops10
docker10
k3s10
container-cop10
kustomize10
sbom10
cosign10
gitops10
docker-registry10
helm10
kind10
azure10
cloud-native10
devops10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
defenseunicorns/Defense-Unicorns-Culture
May 2022 - Jun 2022
This repo is a living document of company culture and values.
Contributions:1 release, 3 reviews, 7 commits in 1 month
javascriptnodejscompany-culturedefense-unicorns-preserve
zarf-dev/zarf
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
DevSecOps for Air Gap & Limited-Connection Systems. https://zarf.dev/
Contributions:76 reviews, 10 commits, 23 PRs in 8 months
airgapconnectiongovernmentgapoci
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