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      <div class="tl21-date">Jan 2022</div>
      <div class="tl21-heading">Lead Product Designer<br>Vercel</div>
      <div class="tl21-body">Oversaw the redesign of the dashboard, reducing time-to-deploy by 30% through progressive disclosure patterns.</div>
      <span class="tl21-pill">Product · Systems</span>
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      <div class="tl21-heading">Senior UX Engineer<br>Linear</div>
      <div class="tl21-body">Built the keyboard-first interaction model that became Linear's defining differentiator in the project management space.</div>
      <span class="tl21-pill">Interaction · Eng</span>
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      <div class="tl21-date">Jun 2018</div>
      <div class="tl21-heading">Design Systems Lead<br>Stripe</div>
      <div class="tl21-body">Created and maintained Stripe's internal component library across 12 product teams and three platform surfaces.</div>
      <span class="tl21-pill">Tokens · Figma</span>
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      <div class="tl21-heading">UI Designer<br>Intercom</div>
      <div class="tl21-body">Early product hire. Shaped the visual language for the Messenger product from v1 through to its first major rebrand.</div>
      <span class="tl21-pill">Visual · Branding</span>
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