Sarah Volynsky
Product Design Engineer · San Francisco, CA
Experience
Macroscope
Design Engineer
Present
Own product design and frontend engineering across Macroscope’s AI code review, multiplayer cloud agent orchestration, and dashboards, as well as brand identity and marketing, taking experiences from concept through production.
OpenRelay (YC S26)
Product Design Engineer (Contract)
2026
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









