Summary
Justin Belcher is a design-forward software engineer with 13 years of experience shaping products, design tooling, and developer collaboration at scale. As Staff Designer and Design Manager at Google Material Design (2015–2025), he led multi-disciplinary teams delivering advanced design tools, cross-device layout adaptation, animation automation, machine-readable design specifications, and code generation, including the Relay toolchain that connects Figma components to Jetpack Compose. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff – Design at /dev/agents, focused on building the future of agentic AI platforms. Earlier, as Head of Design at Pixate, he helped launch one of the industry’s first mobile prototyping tools with rich gestural interaction, which Google later acquired. Based in San Francisco and educated with a BS in Computer Science, Music, and Mathematics and an MS in CS/HCI from Virginia Tech, he blends hands-on design craft with production-grade software engineering.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech