Jesse Winton

Design engineering for an elite MySQL database. Worked on all features and surfaces of the marketing website, including designing and building a global search feature, indexed into Algolia with a custom Markdoc AST parser, redesigning product documentation, building for our growth and sales team, and building the PlanetScale Resource hub (now deprecated).

Built all featurss of the platform, and launched to general availability. Led a team of 12+ remote engineers and managed development of the product, design and development of our internal component library with Radix and Tailwind, designing our database and APIs, creating product roadmaps, and general product engineering.

Led a full rebuild of the marketing site, migrating from WordPress to a performant, dynamic Next.js application, allowing for efficient management of dealerships and location specific content through the in-house CRM. Deployed to an average of 100k unique monthly visitors, while maintaining SEO and discoverability. With an external consultant, responsible for the design and implementation of a full company rebrand.

Worked with agencies, individuals, and companies to ensure clear goals, and make technological decisions to ensure performant, well-designed, and well developed experiences across the web.

A laboratory of experimental user interfaces and components.

A simple, delightful, and performant lightbox primitive. 1.0 released, updates coming soon!

A simple, delightful notes app. Experimenting with new design patterns.

A write up about the design process of Appwrite's 2024 launch week.