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San Francisco, CA · simonbukin@gmail.com

Summary

Design Engineer with expertise in designing and building scalable frontend solutions. Skilled in leading projects from ideation to deployment, collaborating cross-functionally to deliver high-impact features.

Experience

Morf Health

2024 - 2026

Founding Product Engineer · San Francisco, CA

Built AI-powered healthcare automation tools helping small practices streamline patient-facing workflows. Owned product end-to-end from Figma prototypes to production deployments and monitoring via PostHog. Overhauled AI chat agent UX and prompting to increase adoption by 250% in 3 weeks. Migrated legacy Next.js app to Vite + React, cutting page load by 75% and doubling feature velocity.

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Variance (formerly Intrinsic)

2024

Senior Design Engineer · San Francisco, CA

Led frontend development for enterprise AI safety tooling. Built component library with ShadCN and Figma, developed typesafe fullstack patterns with Redux, Prisma, and TypeScript. Shipped features on tight timelines that closed $250K+ contracts.

Archipelago AI

2023 - 2024

Founding Frontend Engineer · Remote

Built the frontend from scratch in Svelte — onboarding flows, chat interfaces, and marketing site (Astro + React). Established the design system in Figma with Tailwind implementation. Created custom refraction shader with D3.js for marketing materials.

Google, YouTube

2022 - 2023

Software Engineer · San Bruno, CA

Built Web Components for YouTube Premium using C++ and Polymer. Ran A/B tests that improved click-through rates by 8% across 500K users. Implemented compliance features for the Premium cancellation flow serving 100K+ users.

Frontend Software Development Engineer · Seattle, WA

Developed sign-up flows for RStudio integration using React, Styled Components, and RxJS. Maintained 85%+ test coverage with Cypress and Jest. Documented oncall processes, reducing ticket backlog by 20%.

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Open Source & Volunteer

Research Programmer · Santa Cruz, CA

Added geography features to Taxonium.org, a genomic visualization tool for tracking COVID-19’s genetic origins. Built with React and Deck.gl, optimized for 1M+ sample datasets.

Education

University of California, Santa Cruz

2016 - 2020

BS Computer Science, Minor in Statistics