Amanda Thomas
I've been designing software for about a decade, as a hands-on designer and as a lead.
Most of the hard work in UX happens outside Figma: stakeholders who disagree, business constraints, 30 dev teams that need one answer. I'm good at that part.
I also work in code. This site is mine, built with an AI coding agent and deployed on Vercel, and I work alongside developers the same way on client projects.
Contracting. Leading the design team and building and supporting applications for USCIS.
Sole designer on a developer-first observability platform. Simplified complex alerting workflows. Role restructured. Short but formative.
Led UX for a platform processing 85% of US immigration cases. 20,000+ daily users, 30+ dev teams. Rebuilt how design and engineering worked together.
UX for a GitHub-integrated developer tool. Optimised workflows for technical users.
Internal enterprise tools and design system contributions across data-heavy workflows.
Video production for political and commercial campaigns. 700+ ads in the 2016 election cycle, 200+ campaigns after that. Started taking on software design work here, then moved into UX full time.
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