Summary
Thomas Deckert is a Senior Product Designer with a decade of experience building user-centered digital and physical products, currently designing mobile solutions for utility infrastructure and supporting remote care programs for underserved patients. He blends product, UX, and service design expertise—ranging from leading hardware manufacturing for environmental sensors to crafting telehealth workflows funded by HRSA grants. Based in Oakland, he has a track record of scaling teams and products from early-stage startups to large institutional clients, and excels at translating complex operational constraints into simple field-ready interfaces. Thomas’s work often targets mission-driven outcomes for historically under-represented communities, and he brings hands-on experience across design, prototyping, and vendor-managed manufacturing. Practical, multidisciplinary, and community-focused, he pairs systems thinking with a maker’s attention to detail.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Product Design, Product Design at Academy of Art University
Master of Arts (M.A.), Product Design, Master of Arts (M.A.), Product Design at San Francisco State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Visual Communication Design, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Visual Communication Design at UC Davis
Japanese, French, Chinese