Summary
Skylar Anderson is a seasoned design leader with 12 years of experience shaping product and design strategy for developer-focused platforms and security-conscious enterprises. Currently a Member of Design Staff at OpenAI, Skylar previously led design for GitHub Copilot and held multiple senior design and engineering roles at Aptible, Facebook, and GitHub where they bridged frontend engineering and product design. Their background uniquely combines hands-on frontend development, enterprise security product design, and building design teams as VP of Design. A former F-16 avionics technician in the U.S. Air Force, Skylar brings disciplined systems thinking and attention to safety to complex UX problems. Based in San Diego, they favor pragmatic, trust-oriented design for data protection and developer tooling and are known for moving from prototypes to production while mentoring cross-functional teams. Skylar describes themselves simply as a builder, reflecting a bias toward shipping useful, secure products.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Interactive Multimedia, AS, Interactive Multimedia at Purdue University