Andre Espinoza. UX designer and developer based in Austin. I work at the intersection of design, data, and automation — figuring out where user needs and system constraints actually meet, then building something there.
Real problems. Real solutions. Systems that keep running after I'm done with them.
I got annoyed that tracking grocery spending required manual entry. So I built a receipt-scanning PWA — Claude Vision reads the receipt, Supabase stores it, n8n moves the data. Went from idea to shipped in one sitting.
Guests were saying the same things every week. We just weren't tracking it. I built the system that changed that.
St. Edward's didn't have a way for students to find elective courses outside of office hours. We built one.
A honky-tonk that's been on South Lamar for 50+ years is getting squeezed out. I built a VR experience to preserve it before it disappears.
Comparative sentiment analysis across 50 restaurant reviews using custom GPT models. Qualitative data → operational recommendations.
Dating app mechanics applied to charitable giving. 5 months, collaborative, remote. The design challenge was ethics, not aesthetics.
The brand was right. The UX was getting in the way. Solo redesign across mobile and Smart TV with one constraint: nothing should feel out of place at a dealership.
I'm Andre Espinoza, a designer and developer from El Paso, now based in Austin. I grew up on the border — you learn early to navigate between languages, aesthetics, and contexts. That's become how I approach everything.
St. Edward's University, BA in UX Design (3.87 GPA). Post-grad at UT McCombs, UI/UX for Data-Driven Business. Currently at Holey Moley Golf Club building the operational reporting infrastructure from scratch.
I run a homelab. I go to a lot of shows. I believe in building things myself rather than outsourcing my identity to a template. Digital privacy matters to me — if it's free, you are the product. I try to live that.
If the workflow is broken, the interface doesn't matter. I work end-to-end, design to deployment.
Analytics tell you what happened. Research tells you why. I use both and I know the difference.
28 hours for CartLog. The version in my head was better. The version users have is real. I iterate from there.
Open to full-time UX, product, and AI-adjacent roles. Austin-based, available remote or in-person. If you're building something that needs a systems thinker, I want to hear about it.