Sarah Volynsky

Product Design Engineer · San Francisco, CA

Experience

OpenRelay (YC S26)

Product Design Engineer (Contract)

2026 – Present

Led the design and implementation of OpenRelay’s rebrand, marketing site, infrastructure dashboard, onboarding, and design system, contributing to 10× revenue growth and 1,000+ user sign-ups.

Vinyl Status

General Manager

2018 – 2026

Designed internal operational systems that reduced fulfillment turnaround from 2 days to 1, supporting 20K+ monthly orders for a print-on-demand business serving 1M+ customers.

Selected Work

Seam AI

Founding Designer & Engineer · Independent project

2026

Designed and built an AI-native fashion production platform with a node-based orchestration engine that coordinates 7 interconnected AI workflows.

Design for America

Product Designer

2025 – 2026

Designed booking flows and contributed to the brand identity for a 100+ screen autonomous vehicle product concept, synthesizing insights from 9 user interviews and 44 participant surveys.

UniFi UW

Designer, Researcher & Developer

2025

Led UX research and interface design, synthesizing insights from 23 student surveys and 5 usability studies into a unified campus platform.

Leadership

AIX

Founder & President

2026

Founded UW's AI product design community.

Lovable

Campus Leader

2025 – 2026

Led 5 workshops and hackathons engaging 300+ builders while managing $7K+ in sponsorship credits across Seattle events.

DubHacks

Judge & Mentor

2025

Evaluated 26 AI and fintech projects alongside Visa's early-career team.

Education

University of Washington

M.S. Information Management

Human-Computer Interaction & Artificial Intelligence · 3.87 GPA

University of Washington

B.S. Real Estate

Minor in Business Administration

Skills

Design

Figma · Framer · Rive · Unicorn Studio · Jitter · Paper · Photoshop · Illustrator

Engineering

React · TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · C++ · SQL · HTML/CSS

Awards

1st Place

Open Source for AI Hackathon · 2025

1st Place

AIMS Product Competition · 2025