Philea Bartels is a product and UX leader with a decade of experience designing and shipping modular, sustainable, and scalable digital products across startups, NGOs, and enterprise environments. Currently Head of Product & UX at Fedi and co-founder of TECHLISH, she blends hands-on product architecture with a designer’s sensibility, having led over 50 projects and built unified codebases and microservices for multi-platform experiences. Her background spans humanitarian tech—leading product at Refunite to enable family tracing and direct-impact payments—to consumer marketplaces in Southeast Asia, where she launched core features and partnerships that drove user growth and vendor acquisition. A former professional softball athlete turned educator, she brings coach-like leadership, a creative-first approach, and a habit of “always creating” to teams that want products that matter.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Visual Communication Design, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Visual Communication Design at Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH)
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