Ruben Rekker
Associate Director
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRuben Rekker is an associate director and UX leader with 11 years of experience designing large-scale design systems, product experiences, and user research across higher education, agencies, and startups. He led the creation and expansion of UNSW’s enterprise design system and now guides multidisciplinary teams at Sydney’s Symplicit, translating complex brand and technical requirements into clear, usable interfaces. As founder of Fair Photo and co-founder of Maparoni he blends product design with social impact and a hands-on entrepreneurial streak that produces tangible consumer tools and community-driven projects. His background spans front-end development to strategic design management, and his photography practice informs a keen visual sensibility and cross-cultural empathy that show up in his work.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA Social Impact, Master of Business Administration - MBA Social Impact at AGSM @ UNSW Business SchoolMaster of Arts in European Media Interaction Design, Master of Arts in European Media Interaction Design at The Open UniversityBachelor of Arts & Technology (Hons) Interaction Design, Bachelor of Arts & Technology (Hons) Interaction Design at HKU (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)UNSW Sydney
Dutch, English
Github Skills (15)
translation7
localization7
sketch-plugin6
sketch6
svgr3
svg-files3
sprite3
webpack2
webpack-loader2
loader2
webpack-plugin2
locate2
css2
svg1
svgo1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rekker/translations
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:5 pushes in 4 months
translation-filestranslationlocalizationi18n
skedgo/translations
Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
Translation files used across the SkedGo family of products
Contributions:32 commits, 6 PRs, 13 pushes in 10 months
translation-filestranslationlocalizationi18n
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