Summary
Rodrigo Tello is a Brooklyn-based Senior Product Designer with 13 years of experience crafting interfaces that help people work better, currently designing at Tailscale after roles at Shopify and several product-driven startups. Trained originally as an architect, he blends spatial thinking with digital design to pursue "Computing-Augmented Imagination," turning complex systems into human-centered workflows. His background includes leading product and design teams, building educational programming tools for kids, and co-founding mission-driven ventures—experience that surfaces in pragmatic yet inventive interaction patterns. Comfortable across front-end, product strategy, and HCI research, he brings a maker’s mentality and a track record of shipping polished ecosystem-facing products.
13 years of coding experience