Philip Lapier
Member Of Design Staff at Perplexity
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Lapier is a design leader with 11 years of experience building high-impact product design organizations and financial products, currently shaping AI search at Perplexity after leading Rippling’s Finance Cloud design portfolio. He has a track record of scaling teams and systems—hiring and mentoring cross-functional design talent, creating unified design systems, and instilling shared principles that accelerated product delivery and culture. At Pilot he drove automation that cut hundreds of manual hours and launched the widely adopted Customer Portal; at Dropbox he shipped award-winning desktop experiences and earned a patent for novel UI patterns. Based in San Francisco and grounded in a B.S. from RPI, he blends strategic vision with hands-on execution across product, brand, and research, and often bridges design with engineering to turn complex operational problems into elegant, revenue-driving experiences.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Electronic Media Arts & Communications in Graphic Design, 3.85 GPA, Bachelors of Science, Electronic Media Arts & Communications in Graphic Design, 3.85 GPA at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Github Skills (14)
popcorn10
picture-in-picture10
ipa10
iphone10
ipad9
website-design9
cydia9
tvos8
apple-tv8
torrent7
ios6
swift6
react5
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
plapier/plapier.github.io
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Personal Website Design
Contributions:34 commits, 36 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
cssreactwebsite-design
plapier/dotfiles
Nov 2014 - Jul 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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