pablo grillo

Design Engineer and UX Designer

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  • About

    I am a Design Engineer, half designer, and half developer. My university education in computer science and design allowed me to get jobs as an external contractor on worldwide consulting agencies or as CIO and founder of a startup. I have been through consolidated companies and design studies working for brands like Coke, Adidas, Carte d'Or, Bacardi, Telefónica, Endesa, Carrefour, etc.

    Most of my career has been in the leisure, travel and tourism industry: tour operators, a travel startup and hotel booking technology.

    Currently at Roiback as Senior Design Engineer / Senior UX, redesigning backoffice tools, leading a team of developers and coordinating the company's designers. I built the mobile web app for hotel booking flows from scratch and led the design system “TALAIOTS” applying design tokens across the product.

    During my first years at Roiback, I led a community of 14 Front End developers across 5 separate teams of designers and developers in different time zones, with an emphasis on best practices, scalability, and asynchronous working.

    I believe in the transforming value of design methodologies in the social and business environment. For that reason, I am part of the founding board of Fundament.es a non-profit association that uses a design thinking mindset and UX research to solve social problems.

    Work

    2023

    Roiback — Team Lead

    Leading the redesign of the company's backoffice tools while managing a team of developers and coordinating designers across the organization.

    2022

    W2M World2Meet — Digital Experience Manager

    User behavior tracking across the group's brand sites. Implementation of Treasure Data and User Insider scripts. Planning and management of CMP and DIDOMI preference center.

    2016

    Roiback — Design Engineer & UX

    From UX/Front End Lead to Senior Design Engineer. Built from scratch the mobile web app for hotel booking flows and led the Design System “TALAIOTS”.

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    Joined as Mobile UX Designer and Front-end Supervisor, focused on conversion rate optimization and on keeping the front-end codebase scalable and readable.

    Designed the loyalty and gift card and the gift packages flows for Mobilis, delivered as interactive prototypes.

    2014

    yourttoo.com — CIO / CTO & Co-Founder

    Co-Founder, CIO / CTO. Technical vision and business development, system architecture, building and managing the tech team, product design and user experience.

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    Worked across yourttoo.com and OpenMarket.travel. Besides building and managing the tech team, coordinated the external vendors.

    yourttoo was later acquired by Jumbo Tours (Alpitour World).

    2013

    Accenture España — External IT Consultant

    Front-end supervisor and trainer. Website performance and conversion funnel optimization for high traffic ecommerce sites. UI designer.

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    Engaged through Accenture Interactive | Fjord as an external services provider.

    2011

    Orizonia — UX/UI Designer, B2B sites and webapps

    User Experience, User-Centered Design, Usability, UI Design, Design Engineer, Front End Development, Marketing Online.

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    Reported directly to the head of Marketing and Product, combining UX, UI, analytics and project management.

    Authored “Orizonia Travel Store” (2012), a UX strategy proposal for the group's tour-operator web tools, aimed at both travel agents and travellers. Built with user-centered design and design thinking: competitor benchmarking, four personas with empathy maps, a customer journey map, touchpoints by channel and a SWOT analysis.

    It proposed a multi-brand offer comparator, richer trip pages, responsive design and contact with travellers before, during and after the trip, together with a content strategy and first interface designs.

    2006

    Ingamana — Web Designer & ActionScript Developer

    Award-winning interactive design and development studio in Buenos Aires. Design and development of web applications in Flash, HTML, CSS and JavaScript for international studios and brands like Bacardi, Adidas, Carte d'Or, Bic.

    2003

    Moveo Imagen y Sonido — Co-Founder

    Audiovisual production and post-production. Motion Graphics.

    Education

    2012

    User Experience Design | Human Computer Interaction

    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya

    2009

    Image & Sound Design

    Universidad de Buenos Aires

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    Taught Broadcast Media and Marketing in the Image & Sound Design degree at Universidad de Buenos Aires (2009).

    2006

    Graphic Design

    Universidad de Buenos Aires (two years completed)

    2004

    Computer Science

    Universidad de Buenos Aires (two years completed)

    Courses

    2024

    Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate

    Google / Coursera

    2020

    AI for everyone

    DeepLearning.AI

    2020

    Google Analytics Individual Qualification

    Google

    2017

    Design Thinking & Innovation

    apd.es

    2013

    Technology Based Entrepreneurship

    FundacioBit

    2010

    Project Management

    CAEB

    2008

    Information Architecture

    UBA

    Earlier courses
    2013

    Google AdWords Fundamentals

    Google

    2011

    Tourism 2.0 and Online Reputation

    2011

    Designing a Marketing Plan for e-Tourism

    2010

    Analytics and Measurement in Online Marketing

    2007

    Rich Internet Applications (RIA)

    Skills

    Frontend & Design Systems

    • TypeScript
    • JavaScript (ES6+)
    • React
    • HTML5
    • CSS3
    • Styled-components
    • MUI (Material UI)
    • Design Systems
    • Atomic Design
    • Storybook
    • Figma
    • Responsive Design

    AI & Agents

    • Claude Code
    • Codex
    • AI Agents & Skills
    • MCP Servers
    • Agentic Workflows
    • Prompt Engineering

    Testing

    • Vitest
    • Testing Library
    • Cypress
    • Selenium
    • Unit Testing
    • Functional Testing
    • Visual Regression
    • TDD

    Tools

    • Git / GitHub / GitLab
    • Vite / Webpack
    • npm / pnpm
    • CI/CD
    • Docker
    • Jira
    • SonarQube

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