Curriculum Vitae

Nicolle Koetzler Senior Product Designer & Design Engineer

Brazil (UTC-3) · Remote · Working with U.S. teams

Senior product designer and design engineer with 12+ years in digital design and 4+ years building production front ends. I take products from a short brief to a shipped build: information architecture, data model, visual design, and runnable React/Next.js + Tailwind code. Led a 20-person design and development team shipping websites and web apps for 40+ U.S. law firms.

Experience

  1. Freelance Product Designer & Design Engineer · Self-employed

    Jul 2026 – Present

    Remote · U.S. clients

    • Designing the product UI and session reports for inSession, an AI litigation-prep platform where attorneys rehearse with simulated judges, witnesses and juries.
    • Delivered UX audits, redesign proposals and website work for small U.S. businesses, including a law firm site and a leasing-page redesign for a mixed-use real estate development.

  2. Head of UX/UI Engineering · The Casely Group

    Oct 2023 – Oct 2026

    Miami, FL · Remote

    • Led a team of 20 designers and developers delivering websites, dashboards and web apps for 40+ U.S. law firms; owned prioritization, delivery and final visual quality.
    • Designed and built sites and web apps from concept to production (Figma to React + Tailwind), making the calls on page structure, information architecture and responsive behavior.
    • Built and maintained a design system in Figma and React + Tailwind, keeping design and code in sync and integrating with backend APIs and AI-powered workflows.
    • Introduced AI-assisted design-to-code workflows across the team, speeding up development and tightening the design–engineering handoff.
    • Primary contact for attorneys: turned client-acquisition and case-management needs into product requirements, flows and data structures.
    • Mentored designers and developers on connecting UX decisions with engineering execution.

  3. UX/UI Engineer · NefroAtual

    Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

    Toronto, Canada · Remote

    • Designed and built the website and app for a learning platform that prepares doctors for nephrology residency (React + Tailwind on web, React Native on mobile).
    • Owned front-end features end to end: components, application logic, layout and bug fixes across web and mobile.
    • Worked with physicians to understand study goals and shaped the study flows and content structure around them.

Skills

Design

  • Product & visual design
  • Typography & layout
  • Information architecture
  • User flows
  • Prototyping
  • Design systems
  • Responsive design
  • Figma
  • Photoshop

Front-end

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Vue
  • Astro
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Radix UI

Back-end & data

  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • GraphQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Prisma

AI-assisted development

  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Directing & reviewing coding agents
  • Prompt engineering
  • AI agents

Tools

  • GitHub
  • Docker
  • AWS
  • Cloudflare
  • Webflow
  • WordPress
  • Notion
  • Slack

Education

  1. Internet Systems · FIAP, São Paulo

    2023 – 2025

    UX/UI and product design, information architecture, front-end development (JavaScript, React, Node.js), cloud, databases and AI.

  2. Software Engineering Program · Driven Education, São Paulo

    2022 – 2023

    1,000+ hours of hands-on training; built 25+ projects with React, Node.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS and Prisma.

Languages

  • Portuguese Native
  • English Fluent (C2)
  • German Elementary (A2)
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