Will Capellaro
Staff Product Designer at Uplight
Greater Chicago Area United States
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Top SchoolWill Capellaro is a Staff Product Designer with over 14 years of experience crafting user-centered SaaS and consumer products, currently leading design at Uplight where he rebuilt core utility platforms and implemented a design system that accelerated delivery across web and native apps. He combines hands-on UI/UX and interaction design with team leadership and cross-functional collaboration, consistently driving on-time launches and measurable improvements in usability and workflow efficiency. Will’s background spans enterprise billing, streaming, e-commerce, medical devices, and energy software, giving him a rare blend of product, hardware-software integration, and consulting experience. He mentors teams, runs deep user research, and partners tightly with engineering to ensure design systems translate into code rapidly—often achieving full compliance within a sprint or two. Based in the Chicago area, he brings a studio-trained design perspective to large-scale product challenges, balancing creative problem-solving with pragmatic delivery.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Designed Objects, BFA, Designed Objects at The School of the Art Institute of ChicagoAssociate Degree, Applied Arts, Associate Degree, Applied Arts at Madison Area Technical College
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Github Skills (8)
sketch-plugin7
sketch7
braille4
tailwindcss2
twitter2
measurement2
sketch-app1
cocoascript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
willcapellaro/firstwind
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Firstwind Test Site
Contributions:90 PRs, 85 pushes, 20 branches in 5 months
tailwindcss
willcapellaro/twoodle
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
https://willcapellaro.github.io/twoodle/
Contributions:87 commits, 149 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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