Michael Hintze
Product Designer at WhatsApp
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hintze is a product designer based in New York with a decade-plus track record building consumer and AR experiences at top tech companies including WhatsApp, Meta, Google, and Apple. He’s led cross-functional teams and large-scale initiatives—from Google Maps’ Explore & Search to Creator Marketing design at Instagram—combining strategy, UX, visual design, and prototyping to drive measurable product growth. At Meta Reality Labs he shipped World AR features across mobile and emerging hardware, and now focuses on Growth & Broadcast at WhatsApp, signaling a blend of user-centric design and go-to-market thinking. His background in information management and a B.A. in math and computer science underpin a data-informed approach to design and experimentation. Notably, he won Apple’s internal iContest early in his career and has consistently moved between hands-on craft and people leadership. He brings a pragmatic curiosity for emerging platforms and a history of turning complex technical constraints into polished, scalable experiences.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Information Management Systems, Master's Information Management Systems at University of California, BerkeleyB.A. Mathematics and Computer Science, B.A. Mathematics and Computer Science at Macaulay Honors College at Lehman CollegeFrancis Lewis HS
English
Github Skills (3)
goodies9
slackware9
slack6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rhintze57/VirtualBox-Slackbuild
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
A collection of slackware goodies
Contributions:65 commits, 8 PRs, 103 pushes in 2 years 8 months
slackslackwaregoodies
rhintze57/cgminer-SlackBuild
Jun 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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