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David Plakon

Co-Founder

Austin, Texas, United States15 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Designed tools that help developers ship software quickly.
  • Led redesigns for multiple high-profile brands.
  • Co-founded startups focused on innovative product design.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Designer specializing in SaaS and Developer Tools.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DesignUser Experience Design (ued)

Other Skills

Developer ToolsDesignUX ResearchDesign SprintsDesign ThinkingUsabilityBranding & IdentityPrototypingSoftware DevelopmentUser-centered DesignUser ExperienceUser Interface DesignProject ManagementWeb DesignInformation Architecture

About

I design technical products that people love to use. davidplakon.com

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Warp

3 roles

Product

Promoted

Dec 2025Present · 5 mos

Design Lead

Dec 2024Dec 2025 · 1 yr

Product Designer

Aug 2023Dec 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

  • Designing tools that help developers ship great software, quickly and reliably.
Developer ToolsProduct Design

Wayscript

Product Design Lead

Sep 2019Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Brooklyn, NY · Remote

  • Founding designer at an early stage startup working on dev tools. Designed all the things: product, brand, marketing, sales, fundraising, etc.
DesignUser Experience Design (UED)UX ResearchDeveloper ToolsDesign SprintsDesign Thinking+4

Datadog

Product Designer

Jul 2018Sep 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Designed cloud infrastructure monitoring products for some of the best devops teams in the game. I worked on launching Datadog’s first mobile app, the early stages of Network Performance Monitoring, and early ideation for their Security Monitoring product.
DesignUser Experience Design (UED)UX ResearchDeveloper ToolsDesign SprintsDesign Thinking+3

Code and theory

UX Designer

Aug 2017Jul 2018 · 11 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Designed digital experiences for Citi Ventures, NBC Sports, Discovery, Oprah Winfrey Network, Comcast, and Maybelline.
DesignUser Experience Design (UED)UX ResearchDesign SprintsDesign ThinkingUsability+3

Pledgemusic

Senior Product Designer

Jan 2017Aug 2017 · 7 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area

  • Led the redesign of PledgeMusic.com, and recently acquired properties Noisetrade & set.fm. As the only product designer, I did everything from user research, surveys and interviews, to UI design, prototyping, and some frontend
DesignUser Experience Design (UED)UX ResearchDesign SprintsDesign ThinkingUsability+3

Jukely

Product Owner

Apr 2015Sep 2015 · 5 mos · New York

  • Managed event-based products for an early stage music tech startup offering subscription-based concerts.
DesignUser Experience Design (UED)Design ThinkingUsabilityBranding & IdentityPrototyping+1

North avenue studios, inc.

Co-Founder

Feb 2010Apr 2015 · 5 yrs 2 mos · DeLand, FL

  • Small business, lots of hats.
DesignDesign ThinkingBranding & IdentityProduct Design

Tbl-txt

Co-Founder

Jan 2010Aug 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Co-founded a startup working on a restaurant table service application.
DesignBranding & IdentityProduct Design

Off the avenue

Creator

Nov 2009Apr 2016 · 6 yrs 5 mos · Orlando, Florida Area

  • Created the web series Off the Avenue which has millions of views across the web and over 300+ episodes: offtheavenue.tv
DesignUser Experience Design (UED)Design ThinkingUsabilityBranding & IdentityProduct Design

Education

Stetson University

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) — Digital Arts

Jan 2005Jan 2009

General Assembly

UXDI — User Experience Design

Jan 2016Jan 2016

Lake Highland Preparatory School

Jan 2005Present

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