Amanda Thomas

I've worked in visual media for the past decade, and started focusing on UX design in the later half of that decade. I've watched tools come and go, change and morph. It's only gotten faster and more exciting.

These days I design in Figma, deploy on Vercel, and use Claude Code as a daily engineering partner. Everything lives in GitHub.

NowIndependent

Building

Portfolio, AI agents, and figuring out how AI tools change the way designers and developers work together. Looking for the next team.

AI toolsReact / Next.jsPortfolio as proof

2025–2026Checkly

Senior UX Designer

Sole designer on a developer-first observability platform. Simplified complex alerting workflows. Role restructured. Short but formative.

Developer toolsStartup paceDeep domain learning

2022–2025Federal agency (USCIS)

IC → UX Lead

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.

Design systemsCross-functional leadershipScale

2022ZenHub

Senior UX/Product Designer

UX for a GitHub-integrated developer tool. Optimised workflows for technical users.

Developer toolsGitHub ecosystem

2019–2022Esri

UI/UX Designer & Engineer

Internal enterprise tools and design system contributions across data-heavy workflows.

Enterprise toolsDesign systemsFrontend engineering

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