Tessa Rodes
Director Of Design at Confluent
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTessa Rodes is a design leader with 11 years shaping user experiences for cloud platforms, currently Director of Design at Confluent after rising through senior design roles at IBM Cloud. She specializes in platform governance, onboarding service UIs, and driving consistency across catalogs, dashboards, and navigation systems for complex enterprise products. Known for leading cross-functional teams, she has managed multi-squad efforts and served as the design approver for services joining IBM Cloud. Her background in journalism and visual communications gives her a rare blend of editorial rigor and visual craft that elevates information-dense interfaces. Based in Austin, she combines strategic roadmap thinking with hands-on design leadership to scale design language adoption across large engineering orgs. Colleagues value her for turning platform complexity into cohesive, usable experiences while mentoring designers to operate at product and organization levels.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Journalism — Editing and Graphic Design, Bachelor's degree, Journalism — Editing and Graphic Design at The University of North Carolina at Chapel HillStudy Abroad in Visual Communications, Study Abroad in Visual Communications at City St George’s, University of London
Spanish
Github Skills (9)
react9
javascript9
archived9
css6
svg6
carbon-design-system6
icon-pack1
language-design1
octicons1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tessarodes/landing_page
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
tessarodes/carbon-website
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
The website for the Carbon Design System
Contributions:9 pushes in 6 days
carbonreactdesign-systemcarbon-design-system
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