Summary
Xinni C is a UX leader with 11 years of experience designing complex, user-centered products across Google properties including YouTube, Android, Payments, Translate, Gaming, and Travel. Currently leading AI Workflows at Google, she excels at 0-to-1 problem spaces, translating strategy into data-informed, scrappy experiments while still diving hands-on to ship prototypes. She has led large cross-functional teams and the UX founding efforts for multiple products in Japan and Singapore, driving research-backed roadmaps and scalable systems used by hundreds of millions. A practiced speaker and researcher, she ran the world’s first scaled study on UX/ENG collaboration and builds AI-UX workshops to operationalize design in product workflows. Based in Tokyo and active in community-building—founding Vibe Coders Tokyo—she mentors international designers without formal training and blends a playful maker background (games, drawing, bouldering swag) with rigorous product craft.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Junior College, Junior College at Hwa Chong Institution
Bachelor of Computing (Honours with Distinction) Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing (Honours with Distinction) Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese