Rowan Hale

Available for selected product work

Rowan HaleProduct engineer building dependable tools

I turn complex product requirements into clear, resilient web experiences.

DisciplineProduct engineeringApproachClear, resilient systemsBased inBristol, UK

01 / Profile

Systems, products, and the people using them.

Portrait of Rowan Hale in a dark product-design studio.

My work sits between product thinking and front-end engineering. I care about systems that are understandable to the people who maintain them and considerate of the people who use them.

This fictional portfolio demonstrates the Signal template; names, organizations, and projects are invented.

02 / Selected work

Built with context, not just screenshots.

Unbranded offline field-capture kit arranged with a weather-safe case and paper map shapes
02Front-end engineer2025

Field Kit offline capture

Context

An offline-first field-note tool for community research teams.

Contribution

I simplified a fragile sync model and created recovery states that made interrupted uploads understandable without technical language.

  • Offline first
  • Research tools
Blank component-audit cards beside spacing markers and neutral material samples
03Systems consultant2024

Lattice component audit

Context

A measured rebuild of an aging interface library.

Contribution

The audit connected accessibility debt, duplicate patterns, and release risk to a phased component plan the team could maintain.

  • Design systems
  • Audit

03 / Working set

Tools and practices.

Engineering

  • TypeScript

Product

  • Design systems
  • Technical discovery

Quality

  • Accessibility
  • Web performance

04 / Experience

Where the work developed.

2023 — Present

Senior product engineer

Northstar Workshop (fictional)

Lead accessible product foundations and support a small cross-functional team.

2020 — 2023

Web engineer

Independent practice

Built focused tools for research, education, and early-stage product teams.

05 / Education

Foundations and continued learning.

2016 — 2020

BSc, Computing and Design

Westmere Institute (fictional)

Focused on human-computer interaction and software systems.

Let’s make the next useful thing.