Thomas Boates
Director Of Product Design at Brilliant By Design
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Boates is a product design leader with 11+ years of experience bringing early-stage ideas to shipped web and mobile products, currently serving as Director of Product Design at eMoney Advisor while running his agency Brilliant By Design. He has been the sole designer at multiple startups and has scaled design teams as a co-founder at Runkeeper, blending hands-on design, front-end implementation, and team leadership. His consultancy work spans household brands (Bose, Wayfair, Fidelity, SimpliSafe) and startups (Nebula Genomics, PatientPing, Semantic Machines), often embedding with cross-functional teams to bridge hardware and software constraints. Known for rapid prototyping and facilitation, he routinely leads design sprints that move concepts into validated prototypes and production (e.g., BigAnimal at EDB, Bose AR launch work). He pairs a creative background in music business with pragmatic product execution, frequently shipping both UI designs and front-end code to accelerate delivery. Based in Boston, he brings a rare mix of entrepreneurial grit, deep UX craft, and a track record of shipping complex, multidisciplinary products.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Music Business - Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Arts Music Business - Entrepreneurship at Berklee College of Music
Github Skills (14)
homebridge10
objective-c10
swift10
macos10
ios10
cocoapods9
libfdk-aac9
siri9
xcode9
homekit9
carthage8
wink5
sdk2
jekyll1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
tomboates/BrilliantSDK
Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
surveysiossdk
BumpApp/bumpapp.github.io
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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