Michael DeFazio
Senior Product Designer at Elastic
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarMichael DeFazio is a Senior Product Designer with 11 years of experience crafting product and design system solutions for both large-scale digital publishers and startups. Based in Cincinnati, he currently shapes UX, UI, motion, and design systems at Elastic, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Kibana and the Elastic UI framework by refining icons, accessibility, responsiveness, and component documentation. He pairs a pragmatic product strategy mindset with hands-on front-end polish—fixing layout and theme issues, adding form guidelines, and tuning interaction details. A self-described tinkerer and "scattered thinkerer," Michael enjoys exploring how emerging technologies impact everyday life and translating those insights into delightful, usable products.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (17)
javascript10
css10
eui10
ui-design10
kibana10
system10
uid10
svg10
front-end-development10
react10
dashboard9
documentation8
visualizations7
visualization7
typescript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/eui
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Elastic UI Framework 🙌
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 15 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael's primary contribution involved cleaning up and updating SVG icons within the Elastic UI framework. Their work focused on removing extra IDs and definitions in the SVG code, optimizing the visual assets. They also merged upstream changes and incorporated keyboard shortcut glyphs into the icon library. Furthermore, the user added forms guidelines documentation for EuiDescribedFormRow and updated the webpack config to handle gifs, showcasing a focus on component design and documentation.
reactsasseuiui-frameworkelastic
elastic/kibana
Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
Your window into the Elastic Stack
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:416 reviews, 6 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Kibana UI, focusing on front-end development tasks. Their work involved fixing UI layout issues related to badges and the creation of connector flyouts. They also addressed UX feedback, tweaking search details and fixing UI bugs related to semantic text and index management mappings. Additionally, the user updated UI components to align with the new "borealis" theme, adjusting colors, and addressing responsiveness.
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