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Alberto Gonzalez

Hi, I'm Albert. I've been designing for about 15 years now, and these days I'm running the design team at Blossom, a fintech powering credit unions. We went from 0 customers to 350+ credit unions and 1.6M members, and the design team grew from just me to a team of 20.

Lately I've also been shipping code with AI, which honestly wasn't part of the plan. Work that would have felt far outside my job description not long ago is easy to do now, and I couldn't be more excited. Or worried. Depends on the day. What hasn't changed is what I actually care about. I just want to make things simpler, and a little more enjoyable for whoever has to use them.

Outside of work I'm mostly a family guy. Becoming a dad has been the most rewarding thing I've done, hands down. Past that, I love spinning some heavy metal, photography, learning something new when I can, and traveling when there's time for it.

15+

Years as a designer

30+

Companies worked with

3

Startups designed

3

Awards

Startups I helped build

Vinylfy

Social network for vinyl record collectors. Started as a hackathon project at SuperConf. Ended up on ABC News.

LiveAnswer

Call management software. On from early stage through acquisition.

Blossom

Fintech for credit unions. Still here, still building it.

Experience

Head of Design · Blossom

2021–Present

Lead UI/UX Designer · Vertiv

2017–2021

Senior Product Designer · LiveAnswer

2016–2017

Senior Product Designer · VFD Esports

2014–2016

Creative Director / Cofounder · Alpis LLC

2009–2020

User Experience Designer · Leapfactor

2012–2014

Lead Designer · Universidad de Pinar del Rio

2012–2016

Awards

First Prize · Battle Hack Miami · Issued by PayPal

First Prize · Startup Blastoff at SuperConf · SuperConf

Web Quality Award · Universidad de Pinar del Rio, Cuba