Summary
Steven Raden is a Senior Product Designer with 11 years of experience focused on making complex cloud and networking services feel human and unobtrusive. Based in Austin, he’s progressed through multiple design roles at Cloudflare and led UX for IBM Cloud infrastructure products, bringing deep domain knowledge of CDN, VPN, KMS, and IaaS workflows. He excels at quickly onboarding into technical domains, building strong cross-functional relationships, and translating network and security constraints into clearer, user-centered experiences. Steven’s background teaching database and informatics courses and hands-on work in research projects shows a pragmatic blend of technical literacy and pedagogy that informs his design decisions. He’s driven by a philosophy of integrating technology into life without distracting from wellbeing, pairing product craft with system-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Informatics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Informatics at University of Washington
University of Sussex