Fortinet Oct 2022 – Present
Staff UI/UX Designer, Design Systems
Design System
- Founded Fortinet's design system, a three-tier, design-token-powered, multi-theme architecture now adopted across 100% of the VP org's products, cutting front-end UI build time by ~40%. Partnered with two design engineers: 50+ components in Figma, React, with component usage guidelines, design best practices, and specs documentation, serving 10+ cloud products and 40+ front-end engineers.
- Leading the AI-native evolution of the design system. Writing internal AI agent skills and defining MCP patterns for how the system surfaces across AI-powered workflows, while rethinking what a design system looks like when agents are the builders.
- Owned the design system's roadmap and governance. Gathered product priorities from teams across the org, scoped them into each sprint, and led design engineers through API reviews, design submissions, deprecations, and releases to ship fast.
Product Design
- Led design as sole designer for FortiAIGate, Fortinet's flagship AI-security product (built with NVIDIA) for monitoring and governing enterprise AI traffic. Owned product planning alongside design, breaking requirements down into concrete, scoped features and sequencing the timeline with engineering, from concept to beta launch.
- Designed the product's core AI interaction patterns, information architecture, and data visualization, turning complex, high-volume AI activity into a clear, scalable interface admins can act on. Prototyped in code with vibe coding to validate and ship fast.