Stephen Varga
Staff UX Engineer at Vargatron
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Varga is a Staff UX Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 15 years designing and building interactive experiences at the intersection of design and technology. He currently leads the UX prototyping team for Google Home, translating product vision into tangible prototypes that inform apps and smart-home integrations. His background spans senior UX engineering roles at Nest and a decade-plus running Vargatron, where he blended R&D, graphics programming, and location-aware mobile work with client-facing product delivery. Stephen combines hands-on implementation, open-source framework leadership from his Potion tenure, and a fine arts MFA in Design & Technology to bridge creative exploration and production-grade engineering. Known for turning experimental concepts into shipped features, he brings a practiced eye for physical-digital interactions and immersive UX.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Fine Arts, Design and Technology, Masters of Fine Arts, Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design - The New SchoolBachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Graphic Design at The College of New Jersey
Github Skills (22)
scene-graph10
rewrite10
cinder10
rollupjs7
cpp6
pan6
spritesheet5
pointer-events4
css4
panzoom4
svg3
css-transforms3
typescript3
injection2
preload2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Potion/pocode
Aug 2011 - Sep 2013
Contributions:497 commits in 2 years
Potion/Cinder-poScene
Mar 2014 - Jun 2017
Potion's SceneGraph CinderBlock.
Contributions:293 commits, 6 PRs, 91 pushes in 3 years 3 months
scene-graph
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