Edoardo Guido

Design Engineer

Profile

Frontend-leaning Design Engineer, able to take broad ideas and turn them into prototypes, or scale them into digital products with tangible business outcomes. Nearly a decade of experience across product design, front-end development and design systems, pairing design leadership with hands-on engineering to ship AI-augmented products, from 0 to $1M MRR in 5 months at Carbon Direct to a 10x adoption jump at Metamap.

Experience

Carbon DirectSenior Product Designer

Nov 2023 – Nov 2025

  • Led design for a net-new software offering, shaping feature prioritization and pitching new capabilities directly to top customers, and growing the product from $0 to $1M MRR in 5 months (June 2025)
  • Built full-stack MVPs to integrate AI into the existing product
  • Halved time-to-release by designing and rolling out a company-wide design system

HuddleFreelance Product Design Lead

Sep 2022 – Nov 2023

  • Led product design across two zero-to-one projects for an invite-only network pairing startups with expert builder teams from companies like Spotify, Amazon and Red Antler
  • Served as the main interface between client and team, defining goals, scope and deadlines, and tracking delivery
  • Shipped projects (including Barometer) later featured on Huddle's platform and in its pitch decks, generating repeat client requests
  • Supported a Carbon Management & Removal startup client end-to-end

MetamapSenior Product Designer

Jan 2022 – Dec 2022

  • Designed product features with Product Managers and Engineers against defined OKRs/PRDs, driving >10x adoption and +27% flow completion
  • Founded and scaled the company's design system — unifying fragmented UI across the merchant dashboard and end-user product around a single source of truth, and introducing Atomic Design and Design Tokens — nearly halving time-to-release
  • Led user research across internal and external stakeholders to inform product decisions
  • Pitched and kicked off a rebranding initiative to the C-suite; contributed to hiring through candidate reviews and interviews

CAPSLOCK MagazineCo-founder, CTO, Creative Developer

Dec 2020 – Present

Side project

  • Co-designed and built an editorial platform exploring the intersection of creative arts and technology, including a custom e-commerce flow (Next.js, Three.js, Prismic CMS, Commerce.js) that lifted completed checkouts by 50%
  • Maintain the site and produce generative artworks for publications; give technical support translating creative concepts into reactive/generative pieces
  • Manage the organization's digital operations as a registered nonprofit

Hive.one (Borg)Product Designer, Front-end Developer

Oct 2020 – Nov 2021

  • Redesigned the platform end-to-end, lifting sign-up rate by 50% and improving retention
  • Covered UX research, product design, data visualization and front-end engineering, working directly with the CEO to shape and ship new features
  • Built and maintained Hive.one's Atomic Design system, from typography and color to icons and components
  • Ran 1:1 user interviews and presented findings to the team; partnered with the Algorithm team on data visualization and UX copy; reviewed code, approved PRs, and advised on API strategy

TANTLab & GehlFreelance Dataviz Designer and Developer

Jul 2020 – Oct 2020

  • Led design and development of interactive, data-heavy visualization web applications

AccuratDeveloper, Rapid Prototyping

Jan 2020 – Jul 2020

  • Prototyped feature add-ons for client projects (e.g. data-driven maps with linked charts) and built out finished designs with React, D3, Mapbox and Deck.gl

AccuratData Visualization Design Intern

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019

  • Turned client requirements into cleaned datasets, data visualizations and interfaces; built automated, R-based workflows for fast chart generation

camerAnebbiaMedia Art Intern

Oct 2017 – Dec 2017

  • Reconstructed and animated historical imagery into 3D scenes using Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and Blender

Mynd s.r.l.UI/UX & Graphic Design Intern

May 2016 – Jul 2016

  • Designed website interfaces and catalogue layouts, and supported client presentations

Selected Side Projects & Volunteering

CulturographyProduct/Dataviz Designer & Full-Stack Developer

2021 – 2022

  • Designed and built a tool visualizing Instagram communities for Roskilde Foundation & Backscatter (Next.js, Sanity CMS, WebGL), with a client-editable CMS integration

Checolo.reProduct Designer & Full-Stack Developer

2020 – ongoing

  • Co-created an open-source, privacy-first tool tracking Italy's COVID region-risk levels, with an automated Python data pipeline

Invisibili In MovimentoWeb Designer / Developer (volunteer)

2020 – ongoing

  • Co-designed and developed the website for InMovimento, a platform founded by Aboubakar Soumahoro amplifying the voices of delivery riders and farm workers

Education

MA in Communication DesignPolitecnico di Milano

2017 – 2021

Grade: 110/110 · Thesis: "Dalle piazze digitali allo spazio fisico" (From Digital Squares to Physical Space)

Exchange SemesterMusashino Art University, Tokyo

Mar – Jul 2019

Brand Design & Visual Communication, Media Arts, Sound Arts

BA in Communication DesignPolitecnico di Milano

2014 – 2017

Grade: 104/110 · Thesis: "Il ritmo cromatico di ditdot" (The Chromatic Rhythm of ditdot)

Languages

  • ItalianNative
  • EnglishAdvanced (C1) · Trinity College London ISE III, 2013
  • PortugueseIntermediate
  • FrenchIntermediate (B2) · DELF, 2014
  • GermanBeginner · B1 certificate, Goethe-Institut, 2014