Justin Sawyer

I build the kind of software that fades into the background — interfaces that let educators, students, and product teams get on with their actual work. Most of that has happened at CollegeNET, where I led UI architecture for a college admissions platform serving 150 universities and architected a form engine that handled 10M API requests per day at peak.

More recently I've been designing AI-enabled features that augment rather than replace human judgment — a form generation tool that earned company-wide buy-in, a PDF-to-form converter, and a computer vision system mapping parking lots for public policy advocacy. I'm drawn to small teams where product judgment and frontend craft both matter.