ABOUT XIAOWEI CHEN · SYSTEM THINKER
System thinker.
I’m an interdisciplinary designer with roots in industrial design, product thinking, and classical piano — fields that all taught me how structure, rhythm, and emotion shape human experience.
Over the past eight years, I’ve designed across cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, and developer tools, bringing clarity and intent to complex systems. My focus is making powerful and emerging technology feel approachable and intuitive.
I’ve worked with startups and global teams, launching products from 0 to 1 and scaling enterprise platforms. Time spent in entrepreneurship and generative AI broadened my lens beyond design into technology and business. Curiosity, growth, and openness help me navigate ambiguity, learn new tools, and build from scratch.
Design strengths
Strategic design
Shape product vision and roadmaps around business goals, then define information architecture and user flows that can scale.
Design for growth
Use data and user insight to guide iteration, improve experience quality, and support adoption.
Collaboration
Work closely with product, engineering, and operations partners to bring ideas into working products.
Startup ↔ enterprise
Move between early product launches and multi-role enterprise workflows with comfort in ambiguity.
Career journey
- F5 · 2024 — present
NGINX One, NGINX SaaS for Google Cloud, F5 AI Gateway
- Fungible · acquired by Microsoft Azure · 2020 — 2022
Data Center Composer — DPU technology now powering Microsoft Azure Storage.
- Cloudistics · acquired by Lenovo Data Center · 2017 — 2020
Cloudistics Ignite, now the Lenovo ThinkAgile CP series.
- RentPath · a Redfin company · 2017
Rent.com and ApartmentGuide.com mobile experiences.
- iFolio Cloud · 2016, 2024
Founding designer and Head of UX; the platform now powers $4B+ in higher-education fundraising.
- Georgia Tech · 2015 — 2017
Master’s program in Human-Computer Interaction.
Design is a way of thinking guided by logic, taste, and intuition — knowing when to push, when to simplify, and when to stop.
Available for work. Email Xiaowei · LinkedIn