David Zhao is a product designer and UI engineer with eight years of experience crafting intuitive interfaces for consumer and enterprise products across NYC and the Bay Area. He’s led design at Check and shipped product work at Quora and O/M Studio, now shaping product at Chalk with a background in computer science from Princeton. David bridges design and engineering fluently—his work includes a popular Figma plugin, Autoflow, and a practical engineering stint as a UI Engineer at Citadel. He focuses on turning complex flows into clear, usable experiences and scales design systems that engineers can implement. Known for combining rigorous technical thinking with craft-driven visual design, he often prototypes in code to validate interaction assumptions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Princeton University
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