Mikel Garcia — CV

Mikel Garcia

Product Designer & Design Engineer

Berlin, Germany

Founding designer across every company I've joined, owning design foundations, end-to-end product design, and design systems built directly in code, while also driving brand and growth. I turn complex, technical products into simple, expressive interfaces, and ship them. Musician and lifelong tinkerer with creative tools.

Experience

Founding Designer & Head of Marketing

DIA

Sole designer: owned product and brand design end-to-end (app, Oracle Playground, site, sub-brand) and built an AI-ready design system in code.

Business Development

CoachHub

Business development and go-to-market.

Designer & Marketing

BlockState

Sole designer: brand, website, product UI and investor decks.

Design & Marketing (Intern)

AiServe Technologies

Designed brand, website and product UI for an early-stage AI product.

Marketing Analyst (Intern)

DHL Express Spain

First role: marketing analysis and business-development support.

Selected freelance & studio work

Padelko

Designed and built a full production platform (school, tournaments, courts, shop, accounting) with a design system in code. 1,000+ users and 10+ staff run it daily.

Traube

Cofounder. Scaled the design system into code to accelerate agentic coding, and built the web and mobile apps.

Volea

Product design and front-end for a sports-club management platform.

Venesburger

Website for a burger restaurant in the Basque Country.

Uncommon Club

Website for a members' experiences platform.

Education

OTH Regensburg

European Business, Administration & Management

Double diploma (EN / DE).

Cámara Bilbao University Business School

Business Marketing & Management

Skills

Product designUI/UXDesign systemsPrototypingBrandArt directionFigmaAI-assisted buildAbleton LivePremiere ProAfter Effects

Languages Spanish · Basque · English · German

Padelko

Digitising an entire padel business in Spain: school, tournaments, courts, shop, accounting and project management, on modern web rails.

Role

Design system & front-end

Year

2026

Site

padelko.com

What began as a pilot for one part of the operation grew into a single platform running the whole company: school, tournaments, courts, shop, accounting and more. Built between Q1 and Q2 2026, it prioritised speed and robustness over craft at the client’s request, running the day-to-day from tournaments (group stages to final brackets) to staff tasks and the analytics that keep the business moving. It was also my first project building an entire design system directly in code, with components, tokens and patterns living in the codebase rather than a design tool: a fast, consistent, agent-ready environment that’s quick to extend.

Padelko dashboard

Padelko court booking

Padelko school

Padelko tournament groups

Padelko tournament bracket

Padelko analytics

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