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