Arden Lee
Staff product engineer for fast-moving software teams.
Brooklyn, NY, ESTardenlee.dev / hello@ardenlee.dev / +1 (646) 555-0184
About
I build sharp internal tools, design systems, and AI-assisted workflows for teams that need reliability without heavy process. My work usually sits between product strategy, frontend architecture, and the last ten percent of interface craft.
Work Experience
Northline Systems
Staff Product Engineer
Leading the product shell for a workflow platform used by operations teams to review exceptions, route decisions, and maintain audit history.
- Reduced repeat triage time by consolidating notes, status, and ownership into one command surface.
- Built a typed component layer shared across support, billing, and account health workflows.
Signal Yard
Senior Frontend Architect
Owned frontend architecture for a customer intelligence product with live collaboration, saved views, and role-aware reporting.
- Created a performance budget and code-splitting strategy for data-heavy dashboards.
- Designed release guardrails that made complex workspace migrations safer.
Cedar Labs
Product Systems Engineer
Worked across product and platform teams to turn scattered UI patterns into reusable primitives with strong accessibility defaults.
- Built shared form, table, and command palette patterns adopted by six product squads.
- Partnered with design leads to document interaction rules instead of one-off screen specs.
Orbit Works
Interface Engineer
Prototyped product concepts, shipped early customer-facing tools, and helped founders turn rough workflows into maintainable software.
Education
Pratt Institute
M.S. Information Experience Design
University of Washington
B.S. Human Centered Design & Engineering
Side projects
A compact review queue pattern for AI-assisted decisions, escalation notes, and human approval states.
Next.jsAI UXAudit TrailsAtlas TablesTable primitives for dense operational software: filters, pinned columns, row actions, and keyboard paths.
ReactData UIA11yLaunch NotesA lightweight release-note workflow that keeps product, support, and go-to-market teams aligned.
MDXWorkflowWriting