Tahimi Leon
Product Designer at Padlet
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTahimi Leon is a Product Designer in San Francisco with 8 years of experience translating complex problems into simple, usable products across startups and fast-moving teams. He blends design and front-end engineering—contributing to open-source UI work like react-rainbow—to deliver accessible, component-driven interfaces and scalable design systems. As a former architect-turned-designer and co-founder, he pairs research-led product strategy with rapid prototyping to cut activation friction (e.g., a self-onboarding solution that reduced manual effort by 90%). At Nexxtway he drove measurable impact across client and internal products, from AI-powered logistics tools to fleet management apps, improving speed and consistency in delivery. Currently designing at Padlet, he focuses on conversational, trust-building interfaces and human-centered workflows for small business users. Outside work he recharges by exploring trails and urban food scenes, a habit that feeds his curiosity for overlooked user needs.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
User Experience Design, Design, User Experience Design, Design at Udemy AlumniUniversidad Tecnólogica de La Habana "Jose Antonio Echeverría", CUJAE
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
uid10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
react-component9
react-components9
component-kit9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nexxtway/react-rainbow
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
🌈 React Rainbow Components. Build your web application in a snap.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:39 releases, 154 reviews, 567 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Tahimi primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of React components within the "react-rainbow" repository. Their commits involved adding examples and making UI improvements to a variety of components including Breadcrumbs, Icon, ButtonIcon, Progress Bar, Avatar, Card, and Spinner. A significant portion of their work focused on improving the functionality of the existing UI components with the addition of examples. Furthermore, the user has fixed several documentation formatting issues.
javascript-libraryreactreact-rainbow-componentsjavascriptdesigner
nexxtway/react-rainbow-admin
Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
React Rainbow Admin
Contributions:51 commits, 27 PRs, 21 pushes in 1 year
reactadminrainbowadmin-dashboardreact-rainbow
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