Nic Bertino is a Principal Design Architect with 10 years of leadership delivering product-focused UX and design systems that align user delight with measurable business outcomes. Based in San Diego, he has scaled design organizations and practices across startups and enterprise SaaS—most recently architecting design transformation and a unifying design system at AppFolio and now leading product design at Buildertrend. As a founder and operator he built and launched Summimarket, a privacy-first real-time auction platform that reached revenue and hundreds of users within six months, demonstrating a rare blend of hands-on implementation and strategic vision. He founded Studio Bertino to help early-stage teams define what to build and ship end-to-end, combining product strategy with execution across frontend, backend, and payments. Known for turning research into rapid iteration loops, he embeds analytics and behavioral insights into product roadmaps to accelerate product-market fit. Colleagues describe him as a designer-architect who moves fluidly between hands-on craft and organizational change, reducing design debt while improving delivery velocity.
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Nic Bertino - Principal Design Architect at Buildertrend