Hello! I’m Karen, I make complex systems feel simple.

With 9+ years of experience, I lead UX strategy and systems thinking to bring clarity to enterprise platforms through curiosity, structure, and deep collaboration.

Shaping today

Ongoing recent work at Amazon AWS - details coming soon

Amazon Lightsail

2024 - present

Led the design system migration for Amazon Lightsail, transforming complex cloud workflows into intuitive experiences to simplified cloud hosting for non-technical users. Developed pattern components to unify the console experience, resolve accessibility compliance issues, and preserve Lightsail’s distinct visual identity.

Design system migration
Complex workflow 
Accessibility 

Amazon CodeCatalyst

2022 - 2024

Led the UX strategy from zero to one for environment setup and deployment monitoring features in Amazon CodeCatalyst. The goal is helping developers easily configure their development environments and track deployment progress in one place.

Developer tool
System design
0 to 1 launch   

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