Summary
Ramon Yvarra is a Creative Director and CTO based in Richmond, CA with over two decades designing and building human-centered digital products across startups and large enterprises. He blends strategic product vision with hands-on UX, UI, and front-end engineering—having led initiatives at companies like Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Bugcrowd, and now UniSight where he aligns design and engineering for a complex grocery management platform. Ramon’s background spans game design and interactive storytelling (Stage 9, Dramatic Labs) to enterprise SaaS and security platforms, giving him a rare fluency in both playful interaction systems and mission-critical workflows. He’s known for process development, mentoring teams, and creating cohesive design languages that scale across web, mobile, and cloud. Outside of product work he pursues robotics, game development, and electromechanical art, often bringing experimental thinking back into practical product solutions.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design Computer Science, Graphic Design Computer Science at Butte College
English, Japanese, Spanish