Reese Bowes
@reesebowes
CTO, engineer, designer & artist. 17+ yrs at the seam of design & engineering—Intel Labs, 11 patents, AI-native builder & maker.
What I'm looking for
I’m an engineering leader and UX architect with 17+ years building products, teams, and technical strategy for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and high-growth startups. I’m known for standing up engineering orgs, shipping physical and digital products, and bridging design with engineering from prototype to production.
Across my roles, I lead UX research, prototyping, and design systems—helping teams move faster while keeping experiences consistent. I’ve directed usability testing and roadmap-informed research, and built component architectures that reduced frontend development time and improved quality across product surfaces.
On the engineering side, I’ve driven production readiness through CI/CD and scalable infrastructure—rebuilding organizations from zero, establishing cloud foundations, and strengthening security and compliance for clean deployments. I’ve also supported enterprise developer experience at scale by auditing documentation ecosystems and shaping API strategies that reached 1M+ developers worldwide.
I bring a strong applied innovation mindset, backed by 11 U.S. patents for AR/VR interaction, biometric authentication, and connected hardware design. I enjoy turning complex technology into intuitive experiences, whether that’s AI-augmented products, data-dense analytics, or mixed-reality transitions.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Principal Designer
LiFT Learning
Nov 2025 - Present (7 months)
Rebuilt the engineering organization from zero, standing up CI/CD pipelines, AWS/GCP infrastructure, and security compliance to enable the company’s first clean production deployments in ten years. Established a design system and component architecture, led UX research to inform the roadmap, and articulated scalable technology strategy supporting investor fundraising.
Lead UX/Technical Strategist
Instrument
Dec 2020 - Nov 2025 (4 years 11 months)
Designed and built production web components for the Google AI homepage, delivering interactive prototypes used by millions of users. Led UX prototyping, research, and technical strategy across multiple enterprise/client engagements and maintained design system alignment across 5+ simultaneous teams while mentoring junior and mid-level designers.
Founding UX Architect
NXT Humans
Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 (7 months)
Designed and developed AI-augmented products (mobile apps, analytics dashboards, and customer service systems) for multiple clients, delivering from concept through working prototypes. Led UX research and analysis across concurrent engagements to define AI augmentation strategy for public and private sector organizations.
UX Architect
eSimplicity
May 2023 - Nov 2024 (1 year 6 months)
Defined UI/API specifications and documentation for the USGS Water Mission Area’s National Groundwater Monitoring Service, establishing design standards used by global water scientists. Co-directed interface development for data and analytics workflows, designing data-dense dashboards and compliance tooling and working with GraphQL, SQL, dbt, DataBricks, and Amazon QuickSight to improve data acces
Led a 9-month UX research and API strategy initiative for Intel’s Network & Edge developer relations team, auditing API documentation across five production platforms and benchmarking 10+ competitor developer portals. Built an edge computing validation lab for interoperability testing, with findings seeding the architecture of Intel’s Tiber AI Cloud Platform and establishing enterprise DX standard
Senior Creative Technologist
Second Story + Amplified By Design
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 5 months)
Led concept and industrial design for GM’s “Future of Autonomous Vehicles” project, building a Wizard-of-Oz interactive experience to support UX research on autonomous vehicle interactions. Created immersive prototypes and spatial interaction designs using TouchDesigner, Rhino3D, Processing, Unity, and Unreal for enterprise clients.
Directed a five-year multidisciplinary R&D portfolio spanning AR/VR head-mounted displays, search-and-rescue drone systems, military wearable devices, agricultural monitoring hardware, and spatial computing robots. Produced 11 U.S. patents and carried devices from concept to delivery, including mechanical modeling, multi-material 3D printing, embedded system assembly, and digital interface/softwar
Designed a telemedicine patient monitoring application enabling real-time biometric data sharing between patients and primary care providers via connected devices. Conducted field research with clinicians, created ML-assisted prototypes for disease prediction and clinician scheduling, and produced UX specifications to inform Intel’s healthcare product strategy.
Led CI/CD pipeline improvements (TeamCity with REST APIs/Python) that increased processor emulation test coverage from 60% to 90% across five global sites. Performed hardware validation across Intel Core processor generations, contributing to validation of IA-32 and IA-64 instruction sets.
Education
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Oregon College of Art and Craft + Pacific Northwest College of Art
Master of Fine Arts, Applied Craft & Design
Earned an MFA in Applied Craft & Design through Oregon College of Art and Craft and Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Oregon Graduate Institute (OHSU)
Graduate coursework, Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics
Completed graduate coursework in artificial intelligence and linguistics, including NLP and AI, while working full-time at Intel.
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