Summary
Ven Gist is a multidisciplinary product leader and designer with nine years of experience crafting human-centered interfaces at the intersection of design, front-end development, and decentralized organizations. Based in Portland, they currently shape product and coordination practices at Odyssy and MetaCartel DAO, focusing on lowering coordination costs across DAOs and translating design thinking into usable blockchain experiences. As a founder and former principal of The Office of Ven Gist, Ven blends strategy, data, and visual design with hands-on frontend work to move ideas into production. They’ve also taught design thinking with complex data for public-facing civic projects, demonstrating an uncommon ability to make dense information both beautiful and actionable.
9 years of coding experience
Portland State University