Summary
Matt Born is a product-minded designer-founder with 11 years in digital product and two decades of hands-on web experience, currently leading Founder Mode from Salt Lake City. He blends design sensibility with full-stack tooling—Javascript, Node, React/React Native, SQL, and DevOps primitives—while shipping delightful interfaces and pragmatic engineering. A repeat founder and former design lead at growth-stage SaaS (including a $1M+ exit at Sprout Social), he excels at translating user behavior observations into product interventions that change how people communicate. He also runs design-for-purpose ventures serving churches and communities, keeping his visual craft sharp while building scalable products. Not obvious at first glance: he pairs pixel work with automation and ops-level habits (SSH, CLI, Zapier, Slack bots) to move fast without sacrificing rigor.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Graphic Design at The Art Institutes
html, css, javascript, php, ruby