Waylon Baumgardner
Senior User Experience Designer at University of Redlands
Riverside, California, United States
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Top SchoolWaylon Baumgardner is a senior user experience designer with 14+ years crafting user-centered products, leading remote teams, and mentoring designers across fintech, e-commerce, and higher education. He pairs hands-on front-end chops with strategic product design, having shipped both 0-1 and growth-stage experiences used by millions. Currently building fintech UX at Ontra while teaching UX and front-end tools at the University of Redlands, he translates classroom rigor into practical product outcomes. His background includes driving revenue-focused design at Matterport and Esri and running web development teams at California Baptist University, giving him a rare blend of academic, enterprise, and startup perspectives. Known as a “I-know-enough-to-be-dangerous” web developer on GitHub, he brings pragmatic engineering empathy to design decisions.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.S. Information Technology, M.S. Information Technology at Southern New Hampshire UniversityB.A. Political Science, B.A. Political Science at University of California, Riverside
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Github Skills (55)
graphql10
react10
gatsby10
google-analytics9
static-site-generator9
plausible-analytics9
hexo9
elixir9
marketing9
fastest9
nodejs9
frontend9
compiler9
static-html8
charts8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
waylonrobert/waylonbaumgardner.com
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Code for waylonbaumgardner.com website
Contributions:32 PRs, 44 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 3 months
waylonrobert/waylon-baumgardner
Jul 2021 - Mar 2023
Code for waylonbaumgardner.com
Contributions:25 PRs, 40 pushes, 20 branches in 1 year 8 months
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