SENYO
GAULT-WILLIAMS

Product Design Leader & Creative Engineer

20+ years of practice building products that succeed.

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20+ YEARS

Bridging design & engineering

4 STARTUPS

As a founding-era hire

30+ SHIPPED

Built from zero to launch

14→96%

Photo acceptance rate at HONK

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Lead Product Designer · MinIO · 2024–2025

AIStor Console V1

Led a team of 4 designers in building an enterprise storage console from scratch as MinIO shifted from open source to enterprise. Established the design system, defined the product vision, and shipped a complete V1.

↑28% User Adoption
↑45% Feature Development
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Lead Product Designer · MinIO · 2025–2026

AIStor Console V2

Rebuilt the storage console from the ground up, pioneering a Figma ↔ code workflow where engineers prototyped directly with Claude and refinements flowed back into Figma via MCP. Cut design drift 90% and tripled ideation speed.

Ideation Speed
↓90% Design Drift
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Lead Product Designer · MinIO · 2025

Website Design System

Built a 100+ component design system and redesigned the MinIO website from scratch. AI workflow workshops enabled non-designers to ship pages independently, removing design as a bottleneck.

100+ Components
10× Faster Pages
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Staff UX Engineer/Designer · HONK · 2021

Accident Scene Photo App

Research into 7 root causes turned a failing insurance photo tool into a viable product. A redesigned camera flow with smart post-capture feedback took acceptance from 14% to 96%.

14→96% Acceptance
40→75% Engagement
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Senior UX Designer · Ambassador Labs · 2023

Telepresence IDE Plugin

Moved a CLI-only Kubernetes developer tool into native VSCode and IntelliJ plugins, eliminating terminal context-switching. Close engineering collaboration produced a zero-terminal path for common intercept operations.

+10% Adoption
↓30% Time to First Intercept
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Personal Project · Designer & Developer · Ongoing

From Prompt to Platform

Finding a Dungeon Master willing to commit to a long campaign is the real bottleneck in playing D&D. This is an attempt to solve it, not with a chatbot, but by building a full game engine: persistent state, spatial combat, multiplayer coordination, and the kind of shared experience you normally get when playing with friends.

↓56% Token Cost
4 Specialized AI Roles
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Product Design Leader.
Creative Engineer.

A Product Design Leader with 20+ years of practice building products that succeed, not just ship. I've been coding alongside my design work since long before AI made that possible for anyone else, and that depth is what lets me push a first AI draft into something actually ready to ship.

My career spans nine industries, from telephony and web hosting in the early 2000s to AI-native infrastructure and developer tools today. What actually makes a product succeed is the same thing it's always been: the ability to design and iterate it into something people want.

Senyo Gault-Williams

Senyo Gault-Williams

Open to Staff / Lead / Principal roles

Paso Robles, CA

Let's work
together.

Open to new projects, collaborations, and conversations.