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Coby Chapple

Coby Chapple

Seasoned Product Design Leader & Full-stack Developer

Auckland, NZ
+64 20 4037 1589

Background


About

About

Experienced product designer and design leader with expertise in AI-driven design, Figma, React, and full-stack development, and ~20 years experience shaping high‑impact tools and teams at GitHub, Intercom, Quilter, and more. Most recently driving overall design strategy and cross‑functional delivery to help secure Quilter.ai’s $25M Series B round. Coby consistently seeks to solve high-profile, cutting-edge AI–first product problems (e.g. Intercom’s Resolution Bot) at the intersection between human behaviour and rapidly emerging AI/ML technology.

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Staff Product Designer, Quilter

    May, 2024 - Jun, 20251 year 1 month

    Designing and shaping the future of physics-driven, AI-assisted PCB layout and routing automation. Leading end-to-end product design from discovery to Figma through to delivery—across interaction, systems, and visualization layers, combining electronics domain knowledge with user-centered product thinking.

  • Head of Developer Ecosystem, RDX Works (Radix DLT)

    Apr, 2022 - Jun, 20222 months

    Hired for a short-term mission to plan and initiate a global, multi-year strategy transforming the Radix DLT developer community into a thriving, innovative Web3 ecosystem centered around the Scrypto smart contract language.

  • Group Product Design Manager, Intercom

    Oct, 2019 - Apr, 20211 year 6 months

    Partnered with Group PM and EM on strategy and roadmapping for the Human Support group. Drove delivery of Intercom’s largest coordinated launch (11 teams, 3 offices) and provided interim Product Management leadership during parental leave.

  • Product Design Manager, Intercom

    Oct, 2018 - Oct, 20191 year

    Managed designers across London R&D teams; established design review structures, rituals, and growth frameworks. Led design for Resolution Bot (Intercom’s first ML-based product), enabling automated resolution of 20–30% of inbound support queries.

  • Senior Product Designer, Intercom

    Sep, 2017 - Oct, 20181 year 1 month

    First hire for Intercom’s London office. Led the most comprehensive redesign of Intercom Messenger to date—from system design and teammate workflows to visual and motion design. Established foundational processes for cross-discipline collaboration and early London R&D culture.

  • Product Design Manager, GitHub

    Oct, 2015 - Feb, 20171 year 4 months

    Managed and coached 5–6 designers across product, marketing, and systems design as GitHub’s design org scaled globally.

  • Senior Product Designer, GitHub

    Jun, 2012 - Feb, 20174 years 8 months

    Early member of GitHub’s product design team. Designed key features including web flow, quick pull requests, reblame, onboarding explore, and project boards. Ranked 13th overall contributor to GitHub.com’s codebase (2012–2016). Frequently represented GitHub internationally at design and OSS events.

  • Cohort Coach—EMEA, Seth Godin’s altMBA

    Mar, 2016 - Feb, 201711 months

    The altMBA is an intensive, 4-week online workshop designed by bestselling author Seth Godin for managers, leaders, and high-performing individuals of all kinds who want to level up, lead, and become effective change agents. It's by application only and capped at 100 people in each session. As a student in the program (3rd iteration), I received Perkins Award for most outstanding body of work. After completing the program as a student, I was asked to join the coaching team to help run the European timezone cohorts for future iterations of the program over the next 1.5 years (2016-2018)

  • Freelance designer, full-stack developer, network/security/IT consultant, Chapple Creative

    Jul, 2006 - Jun, 20125 years 11 months

    All kinds of weird and wonderful freelance projects and consulting/contracts—from custom PHP/e-commerce to A/B testing performance of designs for national flyer-drops and print catalogs; integrated system design for inventory management and postal tracking systems; network topology design and installation; data security/redundancy/resilience planning and incident response; remote server/network monitoring and maintenance… essentially garden-variety technical jack-of-many-trades.

  • Staff Project Lead (Contract), Worry Free Labs

    Sep, 2011 - Jun, 20129 months

    Client-facing lead on key product/app design work, leading other designers for NYC-based design consultancy helping enterprises and startups build successful mobile and web apps.

  • Security Analyst (Contract), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

    Dec, 2010 - Sep, 20119 months

    Contracted to work on a variety of projects, from conducting analysis of automated penetration testing reports, on-site client audits of access controls/IT systems, and even driving the design and prototyping for a gas pipeline trading/transaction management system.

  • Security Analyst (Internship), Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

    Oct, 2010 - Dec, 20102 months

    Internship program with Deloitte’s Risk Services (Technology Assurance/Audit) division.

  • IT Manager, Wholesale Toners Australia

    Oct, 2004 - Jun, 20083 years 8 months

Skills

Skills

  • Design & Product

    Product Design

    Information Architecture

    Design Systems

    Prototyping (Figma, Framer, Sketch)

    Interaction Design

    User Research

    Product Strategy

    Product Management

    UI/UX Design

    Visual Design

    Branding Design

    Content Strategy

    Mobile Design

    Cross-platform Design

    Responsive Design

    Accessibility

  • Engineering

    TypeScript

    React

    Three.js

    Next.js

    Node.js

    HTML

    CSS

    Tailwind CSS

    JavaScript

    Bun

    Ruby on Rails

    Ruby

    Python

    Ember.js

    PostgreSQL

    MySQL

    NoSQL

    Shell/Bash

    Linux

    Unix

    Docker

    Kubernetes

    Astro

    Gatsby

  • Tools & Practices

    Figma

    Git

    GitHub

    Linear

    Notion

    Airtable

    Coda

    PostHog

    Amplitude

    Tableau

    Copilot

    Claude

    AI

    LLM automation

    Agile

    TDD

    Open Source

Education

Education

  • , altMBA, Strategic Change Leadership, Seth Godin's altMBA

    - Jan, 2016

  • , Bachelor of Information Technology, Deakin University

    - Jan, 2012