Matt Castillo

Designer • Engineer

Matt Castillo

Born and raised in Texas, I've since resided in Chicago and the Bay Area. I now live in Brooklyn with my wife, Emily, who is also a designer.

Outside of work, I'm into 🧑🏻‍💻 coding, 🍿 going to the movies, 🎸 concerts, 📈 investing, and 🍲 trying new restaurants.

Experience

2024–

Freelance

  • Freelance

    Working with clients to build exceptional user experiences for commercial real estate, privacy & identity, and AI

2021–24

Kandji

  • Director of Product Design

    Led a team of 8 designers and UX researchers

  • Principal Product Designer

    Designed for multiple products across IT and InfoSec

  • Staff Product Designer

    Native apps for IT admins and end-users

2019-21

Shippo

  • Lead Product Designer

    Automated shipping tools for online merchants

2018–19

Lyft

  • Product Designer

    Safety and insurance features for riders and drivers

2017–18

Popular Pays

  • Product Designer

    Content workflows for creators

2015–17

Yello

  • Product Designer

    Interview tools for recruiters and staff

Education

2020–21

Thinkful

  • Full-stack web development

    Certified in React, RESTful APIs, and Node.js

2010–14

Texas State University

  • BFA in Communication Design

About this site

This site was designed and developed by me, Matt Castillo. Designs were created in Figma. Typography was set using Elza and Elza Text by Blackletra Type Foundry, and served on Adobe Fonts. Icons are from Lucide. This site was built in Visual Studio Code, styled with TailwindCSS, built with Astro, and deployed on Github and Cloudflare Pages.