Walmart Seller App
A 4.8★ app for Walmart sellers that I led from discovery to launch.
Hi, I'm Zach, a product designer and builder.
Over the past 15 years I've helped startups to enterprise companies ship. I'm currently building a writing app.
Latest Work
Enterprise Patterns
Building design infrastructure Walmart seller tools were missing
Intuit IXP
Redesigning an experimentation platform around a simple idea: make teams articulate why they're testing, before they test.
SceneWriter
An app I'm designing and building for immersive writing, with a drag-and-drop scene hierarchy, auto-linking entity store, and GLSL atmospheric effects.
Theme Editor
A token-based multi-theme editor I built to power my monorepo. Live preview, real-time propagation, and writes directly back to disk.
My Story
I'd just led the Walmart Seller App to a 4.8★ iOS launch when a return-to-office mandate put relocating to Arkansas on the table. With a young family, that wasn't a move we could make, so my four years there came to a close.
I needed a real break, and I took one. For a few months I couldn't think about design, Figma, or whatever the next project would be. The time away was restful... until it wasn't.
When I came back, I was overwhelmed. The shift to AI-everything had happened fast, and I felt behind. The noise online didn't help. A lot of strong opinions, a lot of mixed results, tutorials going stale within days. It was hard to tell signal from noise.
I tried easing in with Figma Make, but the output felt limiting and I lost the control I'm used to. I've always been system-oriented, so I knew it wasn't something I could rely on long term. I still needed to get my portfolio live, so I did it the old way; designing screens, prepping them for build, filling the gaps, shipping.
Back on the market, I felt like one drop in a very full ocean. Applications went out but most just returned silence. When I did hear back, it was usually that they wanted specific domain experience. But I didn't have ecommerce experience when I joined Walmart either. Good design is about understanding, clarifying, concepting, and validating. You jump in and get proficient by digging into every detail, making mistakes, and fixing them.
Somewhere in the grind, something clicked. I'd been chasing roles a lot like the one I'd just left, when what I really wanted was to get back to building. Less ceremony around design, more of the messy, hands-on middle where the real work happens. I've been a creator since I was a kid. That's the part I want to keep doing.
So I went all in on a new way of working. It didn't take long to realize Figma wouldn't be my source of truth anymore. I built my workflow around GitHub as the centerpiece. Not a design tool or an IDE, just a clean source. I moved through Cursor, landed on Claude Code, and now have a stack I trust.
I've been designing for 15+ years. From the early days of Illustrator and Photoshop to now deploying a fully architected monorepo with an AI agent. What matters most to me now is finding a smart, creative team who want to invent, build, and do work that matters. If that sounds like you, reach out. I'd love to solve hard problems together and have fun doing it.