Eli Sebastian Brumbaugh

About

I'm an AI-first software designer—product, design systems, and the work between design and engineering. I've spent years on analytics and platform software at companies like Salesforce and Airbnb, with a fine-arts background that still shapes how I simplify hard problems. The sections below cover how I work, a few highlights, and what I publish in the open.

How I work

I ran an art gallery and have shown work in 50+ shows. That background in composition, color, and narrative still shapes how I work—and the parallel to AI-first product design is the same: strong intent and taste, tools that accelerate making, and judgment about what to keep, change, or throw away.

Highlights

  • Pitched and led design for Salesforce Analytics on Apple Watch—the first enterprise app on the platform, first featured business app on the App Store, and first non-Apple app on stage at Spring Forward. Featured at WWDC and in Apple's Watch launch commercial.

Open source

I publish agent skills, Cursor rules, and small open-source utilities for design–engineering collaboration. More case studies and tools land here as they mature.

I've also contributed to Apache Superset and Apache Airflow.

GitHub

Patents

U.S. Patent 10,528,211

US20170102833 · granted 2020

Computing systems and processes for simultaneous co-development of dashboard interfaces—collaborative, multi-user editing of analytics dashboards on cloud platforms, from work at Salesforce.

Papers

Bighead: A Framework-Agnostic, End-to-End Machine Learning Platform

IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Advanced Analytics (DSAA), 2019

A paper describing Bighead at Airbnb—an end-to-end machine learning platform for prototyping, training, and serving models at scale—framework-agnostic, with feature management and consistent environments across the model lifecycle. The system was deployed company-wide and cut time to ship new models from months to days.

Speaking

I've spoken at 8 conferences and events—most often on data UX, analytics and visualization, how design supports decision-making, and paths into tech.

Elsewhere

Outside of work: coffee, cars, and the occasional sketch. Always happy to talk shop on any of the above.

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