I'm a product designer who writes the code too. My parents still don't fully get what I do, but that's alright. I've been both since before 'design engineer' was a title anyone put on a job post.
I take products from the rough idea to the deploy that puts them in front of people: discovery, interface, design system, production front-end. What a handoff loses is the decisions that only surface once a thing is real in a browser, on a slow connection, in someone's hands.
Owning both halves means the design already accounts for what the build will cost, and the build still knows what the design was protecting. Currently open for product work and collaborations.











