Urban Faubion

Work

  • Oracle

    7 yrs

    • Senior Manager - JET

      Sep 2021 – Oct 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Greater Seattle Area - Remote

      • Led the modernization of Oracle’s JET platform and platform infrastructure used across OCI, Fusion Applications, and GBU product organizations serving thousands of enterprise customers.
      • Defined and executed a multi-year platform modernization roadmap focused on scalability, developer experience, engineering velocity, and long-term maintainability.
      • Led the migration of core platform infrastructure to TypeScript and a VDOM architecture, improving maintainability, delivery consistency, and long-term platform flexibility.
      • Owned engineering quality and testing standards across the platform, implementing visual regression testing, interaction testing, accessibility testing, and standardized CI quality gates that significantly improved release confidence while reducing build times by more than 80%.
      • Introduced organization-wide engineering processes and ownership models, including DRI and RACI frameworks, reducing ambiguity and improving cross-functional execution across platform initiatives.
      • Remained deeply hands-on in architecture, implementation, testing infrastructure, and platform modernization efforts while mentoring senior engineers and technical leads.

    • Senior Manager - OCI

      Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 · 10 mo

      Greater Seattle Area - Remote

      • Led the technical direction of OCI’s enterprise design system and shared platform infrastructure supporting multiple cloud services across a large distributed engineering organization.
      • Helped evolve OCI’s micro-frontend architecture toward a federated service model that improved organizational scalability, team autonomy, and delivery velocity across cloud engineering initiatives.
      • Built scalable component systems, shared UI infrastructure, and platform capabilities that reduced duplicated engineering effort and accelerated feature delivery across OCI teams.
      • Partnered across design, product, and engineering organizations to establish consistent platform standards, improve developer experience, and modernize shared engineering workflows.
      • Remained hands-on in architecture reviews, implementation strategy, and critical platform development efforts while leading cross-functional platform initiatives.

    • Principle Software Engineer

      Oct 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Greater Seattle Area - Hybrid

      • Led core platform architecture initiatives for OCI’s enterprise design system and shared UI infrastructure, helping establish the technical foundation for scalable cloud platform development across multiple services.
      • Designed and built foundational component systems, interaction patterns, and shared platform infrastructure focused on scalability, consistency, maintainability, and long-term platform evolution.
      • Helped drive adoption of modern platform architecture patterns, component-based development, and design-system practices across distributed OCI engineering organizations.
      • Established engineering standards and shared implementation approaches that improved consistency, maintainability, and developer efficiency across product teams.
      • Worked closely with engineering, design, and product organizations to solve complex workflow and platform challenges within large-scale cloud environments.

  • UX Engineer

    Google via Adecco

    Jul 2018 – Sep 2018 · 2 mo

    Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

    • Contributed to UX research and internal tooling initiatives supporting product and platform teams across Google Cloud.
    • Built internal applications that helped operationalize and communicate design research insights across distributed engineering and product organizations.

  • Senior Software Engineer (Contractor)

    Korn Ferry

    Mar 2017 – Jun 2018 · 1 yrs 3 mo

    Greater Los Angeles Area - Remote

    • Modernized a large B2C career coaching platform using React and Next.js, improving maintainability, delivery speed, and collaboration across product and engineering teams.
    • Introduced reusable design-system patterns and shared platform infrastructure that streamlined product development workflows and reduced duplicated engineering effort.
    • Developed a mobile application in Swift using functional and reactive programming techniques to support interactive interview coaching experiences.
    • Helped introduce modern architecture practices and functional programming concepts across engineering workflows.

  • Mobile Application Developer (Contractor)

    Teague

    Feb 2017 – Mar 2017 · 1 mo

    Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

    • Developed mobile and in-vehicle interaction systems supporting autonomous vehicle service prototyping and emerging mobility initiatives.

  • Head of Design

    MileZero

    Mar 2016 – Dec 2016 · 9 mo

    Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

    • Led the design and product development of a real-time logistics platform focused on operational visibility, workflow coordination, and rapid iteration within a startup environment.
    • Unified design and engineering workflows to improve delivery speed, product consistency, and cross-functional collaboration across our SaaS platform.

  • frog

    7 yrs 1 mo

    • Principal Design Technologist

      Apr 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yrs 10 mo

      Munich, Germany / Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

      • Led cross-disciplinary teams building enterprise design systems, digital products, and scalable platform experiences for clients including GE, Daimler, and the Nike Foundation.
      • Conducted in-field research in Africa and Southeast Asia for the Nike Foundation’s Girl Effect initiative, helping prototype mobile communication concepts designed for low-bandwidth and emerging-market environments.
      • Built mobile communication and messaging prototypes leveraging SMS and lightweight interaction models to support large-scale outreach and engagement initiatives.
      • Worked across product strategy, interaction systems, rapid prototyping, and emerging technology initiatives spanning enterprise platforms, mobile systems, and next-generation digital experiences.
      • Helped organizations modernize product development practices through scalable design systems, reusable platform architecture, and cross-functional collaboration between design and engineering teams.

    • Senior Design Technologist

      Jan 2009 – Apr 2014 · 5 yrs 3 mo

      Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

      • Helped establish early enterprise design-system architecture initiatives for GE’s Software Center of Excellence, building scalable UI systems and reusable platform foundations during the early evolution of component-based web development.
      • Built mobile operating system prototypes and gesture-based interaction models for Nokia and Qualcomm during the transition to capacitive touchscreens and modern smartphone interfaces.
      • Worked across product systems, rapid prototyping, and emerging technology initiatives for clients including Microsoft, Disney, PwC, and Telstra.
      • Contributed to Telstra’s transition from legacy telecommunications infrastructure toward a modern mobile-first digital platform following major industry and regulatory changes in Australia.
      • Partnered across design, product, and engineering disciplines to translate complex product concepts into scalable technical systems and interactive prototypes.

  • Senior Developer

    Filter, LLC

    Oct 2008 – Dec 2008 · 2 mo

    Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

    • Developed the Filter website and an interactive portfolio visualization using Three.js.

  • Senior UI Developer

    Ramp Group

    Aug 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yrs 2 mo

    Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

    • Developed web-based applications, mobile applications, e-commerce solutions and more.

  • Instructor

    School of Visual Concepts

    Aug 2007 – Dec 2007 · 4 mo

    Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

    • Taught the Intermediate Flash class, a hands-on course teaching 2D drawing techniques, time-line animations and basic computer programming with ActionScript.

  • Senior Developer

    Razorfish

    Aug 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs

    Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

    • Developed highly interactive websites using Flash, Silverlight, and JavaScript/HTML/CSS for various .com startups and Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, HouseValues, Cingular, AT&T, Best Buy, Netflix, and more.
    • Technical advisor to the Design department on feasibility and technical implementations.

  • Graphic Designer

    Expeditors

    Aug 2003 – Aug 2005 · 2 yrs

    Greater Seattle Area - On-Site

    • Led the design and UI development of the corporate website and one subsidiary website.
    • Developed interactive presentations for the Executive Team.
    • Designed and developed interactive digital annual reports.
    • Designed and developed custom widgets for the company intranet.
    • Designed printed materials such as the quarterly magazine, business to business and other marketing materials.