Résumé

Timurtek Bizel

Design Engineer & AI Product Builder

Design engineer and AI product builder. For more than a decade I have worked inside Apple, Disney and startup product teams, turning complex ideas into systems people can use, ship and maintain: product direction, interaction design, production frontend, design systems, retrieval-backed AI and the automation underneath a team. I also build and operate independent products end to end.

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Experience

October 2024 – presentRemote

MixShift

Lead Design Technologist + AI Systems

  • Own the design and frontend technology roadmap for an Amazon marketplace analytics platform, and the AI layer underneath it.
  • Co-built the 175-component design system and own its design half: Storybook, foundations, and accessibility and token gates wired into the merge path across five apps.
  • Negotiated a review agreement with product and engineering: styling changes route to me, and a screen's design is resolved before it is built.
  • Turned five review findings with one root cause into a build check: a missing design token now fails CI instead of reaching review.
  • Specified, prototyped and led the frontend for Report Center 2.0, and built the marketing platform from the first commit.
  • Built a retrieval-backed knowledge product on a 55-article corpus, with an evaluation harness and prompt-injection defenses.
  • Run twenty-six scheduled automations and an organizational knowledge system that turns meetings into a queryable record.
  • Established semi-automated design-to-code workflows, and brought AI tooling into the team's daily practice.
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December 2022 – October 2024Remote

Disney · Disney+ DMED

Mid-Senior UX/UI Web Engineer

  • Built features, components, patterns and templates for the Spellbook design system in React, TypeScript, SASS and Storybook.
  • Partnered with product engineers to implement design-system components, business logic and interaction states across internal applications.
  • Implemented pixel-accurate interfaces from design, responsive and cross-browser.
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January 2020 – November 2022Remote

Disney ABC Television Group · via Globant

Mid UX/UI Engineer

  • Created and maintained the Elsa design system in Next.js, React, TypeScript, SASS, Tailwind CSS and Storybook.
  • Owned visual, interaction, accessibility and interface design for Elsa and the seven applications it supported, across five themes.
  • Produced the mockups, prototypes and interaction models for the projects on the system, and supported the engineers implementing them.
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March 2019 – November 2019Culver City, CA

Apple

UX/UI Engineer and Designer

  • Iconography, interaction design, prototyping, accessibility, style guides, UI animation and frontend implementation for Polaris.
  • Built an Apple Marcom standards component library as an npm package with Vue and Storybook, so teams could build on component-driven foundations.
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Earlier

2018 – 2019Burbank, CA

Disney ABC Television Group

Product Designer

Style guides, page templates and newsletters for ABC's Affiliate Network, the ABC Software Solutions site, and the prototypes and functional specs for ABC's Intelligence app. Also early foundation work on Spellbook: token naming, component API conventions and its accessibility checklist.

November 2016 – January 2018Bothell, WA

MediaPRO

UX/UI Designer

Designed the admin and learner experiences of a security-training platform, and a self-serve funnel where a customer bought a program and branded the whole product in four onboarding steps.

2016Remote

Qwardo

Product Designer

Interface design, information architecture, style guides and the marketing site for a marketer analytics app, working directly with the product owner.

2016Bellevue, WA

SAP Concur

UX Designer

Concur's Outlook add-ons, including one-click expense capture from the inbox, and Beta Manager for running beta programs.

2014 – 2015Redmond, WA

ReadyPulse

Product Designer

Experience and interface design and branding for an influencer platform, and Skorebase, measuring athletes' social performance.

Independent products

TekJobs

Live, open-source job-search product. Turned a filterable inventory of postings into a bounded daily decision queue, with every match score traced to criteria the user wrote. 44 MCP tools, published on npm.

RoadHand

Live two-sided marketplace for traveling trades workers. Federal wage and per-diem data, a server-rendered wage page for every trade in every state, Stripe subscriptions, content automation.

AstroSense

Live deterministic birth-chart product. A local astronomy engine, a two-tier content system, and daily publishing and distribution that costs nothing at the margin.

Zengin

Open-source design system and a deterministic rule engine that holds coding agents to it. Twelve packages on npm.

GoodRep.fit

On-device computer-vision form coaching in a web app. Nothing leaves the phone.

Skills

Design

Product design · Interaction design · Design systems · Prototyping · Accessibility · Information architecture · UX writing · Figma

Engineering

TypeScript · React · Next.js · React Native · CSS, SASS, Tailwind · Storybook · Playwright, Vitest · Git

AI and automation

Retrieval-backed products · Evaluation harnesses · Model Context Protocol · Claude Code · Scheduled pipelines · Prompt-injection defense

Platform

Vercel · Firebase · Stripe · GitHub Actions · Jira

Education

January 2012 – December 2014Seattle, WA

Seattle Central College

Web design and development

Web design and development.