Summary
Ryan Visek is a Product Designer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience crafting product and brand experiences for startups and freelancers alike. Currently at ReadMe, he combines practical product design with a developer-aware mindset—rooted in a computer science background and early work building data-collection tooling as a research assistant. He previously helped take MadKudu from seed to Series A, owning brand, UI/UX, website, and a living design system, and runs freelance work that spans visual design to product strategy. A natural mentor, he led Dribbble’s UI bootcamp and shorter product design mentorships, translating practical craft into teachable workflows. He dropped out of college to pursue design and has since turned that risk into a steady career, balancing hands-on execution with system-level thinking. Check his portfolio at ryanvisek.com for samples that blend developer-first documentation UX with polished visual design.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University, Chico