Nahiyan Khan
Principal Design Engineer at Block
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolNahiyan Khan is a Principal Design Engineer specializing in applied AI, leading design engineers and product designers at Block to encode design knowledge into intelligence layers and operationalize emerging AI capabilities. With nine years of experience building design systems and front-end infrastructure—most notably driving Cash App’s design system into production—he blends close attention to implementation details with strategic design leadership. He contributes to open-source projects like the Goose AI agent, focusing on UI/UX, theming, and accessibility to make AI tools more usable for builders. Nahiyan pairs an MS in Software Engineering from Johns Hopkins with a BA that spans art, math, and computer science, enabling a rare cross-disciplinary fluency between visual design and engineering. Outside work he rock climbs and pursues deep learning rabbit holes, reflecting a practical maker’s mindset and a curiosity that fuels novel design solutions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Software Engineering, Master of Science Software Engineering at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringBachelor Of Arts Art Math and Computer science, Bachelor Of Arts Art Math and Computer science at Macalester College
English, Bengali
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Github Skills (11)
css10
typescript10
typescripts10
tailwindcss10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
markdown-it9
markdown9
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
block/goose
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
an open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions - install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 37 PRs, 48 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nahiyan primarily contributed to the UI/UX development of the Goose AI agent. They focused on implementing and styling various frontend components, including the welcome screen, settings interface, tool call displays, and markdown content rendering. Their work involved updating and refining the visual design, fixing styling issues, and enhancing the user interface through various design and feature implementations. They also contributed to theming and accessibility aspects of the UI.
nahiyankhan/rong
May 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:111 PRs, 159 pushes, 62 branches in 1 year 10 months
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