Eli Sebastian Brumbaugh

Database

A full list of roles and projects by company.

Snowflake

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AI-powered data visualization

Lead design for Snowflake’s AI-powered data visualization offerings.

DesignProductCase study
Human Data Interaction

Modern data engineering and developer experiences.

DesignProduct

Airbnb

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Internal Tools & Design Systems

Led design across Infrastructure and Internal Tools—Data Platform, Developer Platform, Security, Search, and Cloud Infrastructure (~400 people, 80% engineering).

Design Manager LeadLeadership
Data Design Language System

Co-created Airbnb’s data design language system and evangelized Data UX across product teams.

Co-creatorSystem
Internal Tools Design Language System
Co-creatorSystem
Map Design Language System
CreatorSystem
Metric Explorer

Company-wide metrics exploration—democratized data access for employees without analytics backgrounds.

DesignProduct
Minerva

Visual identity for Minerva Metrics—Infra-curated metrics that represent the highest bar of data quality. Increased brand recognition across data tools, email, and reports.

DesignSystem
Bighead machine learning platform

End-to-end platform to build, train, and deploy ML models with minimal overhead—500+ models registered and 100+ unique users across business units.

Product designProduct
Superset

Airbnb-born data exploration and dashboarding platform (originally Caravel)—rich visualizations, SQL Lab, and fast slice-and-dice against Hive, Presto, Druid, and other sources. Open sourced in 2016 and later donated to the Apache Software Foundation.

DesignProductExternal
SLA Tracker

Monitor data entity landing times and analyze root causes with lineage visualization—used daily by Homes data scientists to ensure data quality within Dataportal.

DesignProduct
DIO Portal

Monitors data jobs on EMR clusters to incentivize cost efficiency, reliability, and performance—~150 weekly active users and growing.

DesignProduct
Oneflow

Step-by-step DAG authoring workflow with quick setup and powerful testing—estimated 70% reduction in time Data Scientists spend authoring DAGs.

DesignProduct
Dataportal

Data discovery for tables, dashboards, reports, and metric definitions—promotes data-informed decisions and helped answer how to find what you need to do your job.

DesignProduct
Data Access

Consistent data access experience across Dataportal, Superset dashboards, and Superset charts—unified request flows for protected metrics with approval chains, improving consistency and data security.

DesignProduct
Airflow
DesignProduct
Hindsight

Anomaly detection UI—configure detectors on Minerva metrics, tune algorithms, and set up dashboards plus email and Slack alerts.

DesignProduct
AirStream

Streaming data framework that enables smart search and other real-time product features—reliable, easy-to-use infrastructure for critical business capabilities.

DesignFramework
CS Ticket Insights

AI-powered CS Ticket Deep Dive Tool—automates manual ticket investigation for product specialists, with opportunity sizing and cost modeling (2020 goal of $89M in CS savings).

DesignProduct
X-Ray

Financial analysis tool for Finance—transparent reporting for leadership, theorized to save Airbnb ~$70M/year at current employee expenditure run rates.

DesignProduct
Tally

Single source of truth for Airbnb financial data—self-service reporting, pipeline health, FinInfra OKRs, research tools, and government reports.

DesignProduct
Inspekt

Data scanning service that detects and classifies sensitive data elements—enabling GDPR and CCPA compliance across SQL, S3, Hive, and other stores.

DesignProduct
Obliviate
DesignProduct
Gandalf

Permissions platform for LDAP, MySQL, and data warehouse access—helps Leadership, Legal, and Finance approve requests confidently while employees self-serve renewals. Removed an IPO blocker and ensured SOX compliance.

DesignProduct
Deployboard + Merge Queue

Company-wide code deploy workflow—UI overhaul ahead of open-sourcing. Merge Queue removed a major deploy pain point (from -80 NPS), saving hundreds of engineering hours per week.

DesignProduct
Bighead (IEEE DSAA)

Paper on Bighead architecture and company-wide deployment at Airbnb.

Co-authorPaperExternal
Indigenous@ (Indigenous ERG)

Founded and led Airbnb’s Indigenous employee resource group.

Founder & leadOrg
Host Stats
DesignProduct
Neighbors
DesignProduct
Disaster Response Tool

Tool for hosts to open homes to neighbors and relief workers after disasters—Shorty Social Good Awards winner.

DesignProduct
Data UX talks

Data UX at Design for Complexity; Data, Design & Decision-Making at DATAx New York; design and data visualization at d3.bayarea().

SpeakerSpeaking

Apple

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Salesforce Analytics for Apple Watch

Self-directed project—first enterprise app on Apple Watch, first featured business app on the App Store, first non-Apple app on stage at Spring Forward. WWDC, Watch apps site, and launch commercial.

Lead design (Salesforce)Product
Salesforce Authenticator for Apple Watch

Watch companion for Salesforce Authenticator.

Design (Salesforce)Product

Salesforce

ProjectRoleTypeLink
Einstein Analytics / Analytics Cloud

Designed Salesforce Analytics Cloud with a close collaborator team—mobile, web, and analytics experiences.

Senior product designerProduct
Salesforce Wave (Analytics) mobile

Wave mobile UI—Webby honoree, Appy Awards, BMA Gold, GDUSA American Web Design Awards.

Senior product designerProduct
Lightning Design System (iOS)

Redesigned Salesforce1/Lightning Design System for iOS 7; moved 100+ person design org from Photoshop to Sketch.

Senior product designerSystem
Wearables

Samsung Gear 2 and Android Wear (directed) Salesforce experiences.

Senior product designerProduct
Dreamforce UX IoT Design Shop

Hackathon booth and IoT design shop at Dreamforce 2014.

CreatorEvent
U.S. Patent 10,528,211

Simultaneous co-development of dashboard interfaces—collaborative, multi-user editing of analytics dashboards on cloud platforms.

InventorPatentExternal
Dreamforce 2015 — The Making of Salesforce Analytics

Talk on building Salesforce Analytics.

SpeakerSpeaking

Huge

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Client experience design

Two-month interaction design engagement in Brooklyn—brand, commerce, and platform work at scale.

Interaction designerClient

Freelance

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Wikibuy

Client work (acquired by Capital One).

Product designClient
Clever

Client work (Series B).

Product designClient

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