Seasoned product designer, design leader/manager/coach, and detail-oriented full-stack developer, seeking purpose-led companies committed to inclusive culture and sustainable growth.
Coby Chapple
@cobyism
Product designer & full-stack web developer, a pragmatic systems thinker, and an empathetic coach, manager, and mentor.
What I'm looking for
Seasoned product designer, design leader/manager/coach, and detail-oriented full-stack developer, seeking purpose-led companies committed to inclusive culture and sustainable growth.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Staff Product Designer
Quilter.ai
May 2024 - Jun 2025 (1 year 1 month)
Led product design initiatives delivering customer-facing features and improvements over a 1-year tenure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and product consistency.
Planned and initiated a global, multi-year strategy to grow the Radix DLT DeFi developer community and increase contributions to the Radix platform centered on Scrypto.
Led group-level Human Support product design, drove delivery of an 11-team coordinated launch, and coached designers while covering product management responsibilities during parental leave.
Managed London design teams, established review processes and hiring/onboarding, and led design for Resolution Bot to automate high-volume support resolution.
First hire for London R&D, led major Messenger redesign and drove launch of Resolution Bot, enabling automated answers for ~20–30% of inbound support queries.
altMBA Cohort Coach
altMBA
Mar 2016 - Mar 2018 (2 years)
Coached European timezone cohorts for Seth Godin's intensive altMBA program, facilitating peer learning and mentoring high-performing professionals across multiple iterations.
Managed and coached a 5–6 person design team across product, marketing, and design systems while scaling design practices and execution for the platform.
Early member of GitHub's product design team contributing to key features (pull requests, project boards, onboarding) and represented the company at conferences.
Client-facing lead for product and app design engagement, managing designers for an NYC-based consultancy delivering mobile and web applications.
Freelance Designer & Developer
Chapple Creative
Jul 2006 - Jun 2012 (5 years 11 months)
Delivered a range of freelance projects including full-stack web development, e-commerce, A/B testing, inventory systems, and network/security consulting over six years.
Conducted analysis of penetration testing reports, on-site client IT audits, and contributed to design and prototyping of a gas pipeline trading/transaction management system.
Interned in Risk Services (Technology Assurance/Audit), supporting technology assurance tasks and audit activities within the division.
I.T. Manager
Wholesale Toners Australia
Oct 2004 - Jun 2008 (3 years 8 months)
Managed IT operations including network topology, server maintenance, and IT support for business systems across the organisation.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
altMBA
altMBA, Strategic Change Leadership
2016 - 2016
Activities and societies: Cohort coach (EMEA); received Perkins Award as a student.
Completed Seth Godin's intensive 4-week altMBA cohort and served as an EMEA cohort coach, focusing on strategic change leadership and peer-driven learning.
Deakin University
Bachelor of Information Technology, Information Technology
2009 - 2012
Grade: 4
Activities and societies: I.T. Security; Website Development; Software Engineering
Bachelor of Information Technology with emphasis on network security, website development, and software engineering completed from 2009 to 2012.
Brisbane Learning Center
Certificate IV in Information Technology, Multimedia / Information Technology
2004 - 2005
Grade: 4
Activities and societies: Multimedia; Software Development; Graphic Design; 3D Graphics; Network Administration
Completed Certificate IV in Information Technology with focus on multimedia, software development, graphic design, 3D graphics, and network administration.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Blockchain
GitHub
Cloudflare
Heroku CI
PostCSS
CSS Modules
PreCSS
PostgreSQL
Porkbun
Node.js
Ruby on Rails
Tailwind CSS
Tailwind Starter Kit
Google Analytics
Redis
React
JavaScript
Python
HTML5
CSS 3
PHP
Ruby
Ubuntu
Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Kali Linux
Arch Linux
Alpine Linux
Gentoo Linux
Heroku
Heroku Postgres
GraphQL
Jekyll
TypeScript
Visual Studio Code
Docker
Material Tailwind
SELinux
Heroku Redis
PostHog
Bun
OpenAI API
Transform
Availability
Location
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