Product, customers & design
I'm Ken, a product-minded technologist with a background in human-centered design. I enjoy understanding people's needs, explaining complex ideas, and helping turn them into useful products.
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Independent products and tools that make complex tasks easier.
A clearer way to explore representatives, election maps, and your ballot.
Turn receipts into organized information you can find, understand, and use.
03 / Internal tools · Nordstrom
I built Kafka Data Viewer, an internal tool used by NAP analysts at Nordstrom to inspect and understand Kafka event data. A team was subsequently formed to maintain and improve it.
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UX research & physical computing
Kenneth Vaz
I'm a product-minded technologist with a background spanning software engineering, data, product development, and customer-facing work. I'm most energized by working with people, understanding their needs, solving practical problems, and turning ideas into useful products.
My technical background helps me work comfortably with engineers and understand complex systems. I'm especially interested in the intersection of technology, product, customers, and design. I enjoy translating technical concepts into clear solutions, collaborating across teams, presenting ideas, gathering feedback, and thinking through how a product should work for the people using it.
More recently, I've been designing and building my own apps through Innovative AI Apps LLC. Creating Political Social and Receipt Savior has given me hands-on experience across product strategy, UX/UI, prototyping, development, user feedback, and taking a product from idea to launch.
I'm interested in opportunities across Product Management, Technical Account Management, Forward Deployed Engineering, Solutions and Customer Success, technical sales, and product or app design—roles where my technical experience is an advantage and communication, creativity, and working with people are central to the work.
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Open to conversations about product, customer-facing roles, and design.