AJ Matillano

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AJ is a Product Designer with 10 years of professional experience and a lifetime of interest in tech, arts, and design. She is currently working remotely in a London-based international company that aims to digitize the construction industry.

Prior to her current job, she had the opportunity to lead a growing team of Product Designers and UX Researcher in UBX, the innovations arm of the Unionbank of the Philippines. She makes sure that everyone in her team grows individually, feels safe to speak-up, owns one’s work, and supports one another.

Prior to being full-time in people management, she has designed digital products ranging from marketplace to FinTech applications for local companies and international clients from Malaysia, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, and Singapore.

She now uses her past experiences and lessons as a frequent guest speaker at schools and tech conferences. She shows the audiences a glimpse of the joys and challenges working in the tech industry with the hope of inspiring and educating them.

She's the designer behind the official “Eat Bulaga! Mobile App” of the Philippine’s longest-running noontime TV show, “Eat Bulaga!”. The app got 1 million downloads and was rated 4.5 stars by 22,000 users.

In HackTheClimate Manila 2015, she's part of the team that won the championship. Their app was a gamified eco-friendly bicycle app called "re/cycle". From then on, she became part of the Redwizard PH as a regular mentor. Because of this involvement, she got to mentor in different hackathon events around the Philippines like Ilo-ilo, Bicol, Cebu, and Tacloban.

She has always been fascinated with Arts, design, and computers since childhood and although she grew up on the island of Palawan, she was still able to get herself into the tech world, thanks to the internet, and started designing and building websites as early as 15 years old.

She holds both a diploma in Multimedia Arts and a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and was a consistent academic scholar during her studies for both courses. While studying IT at the University of the East, Manila, she was the Head of Multimedia Department of the R&D Unit and the VP for Publication of the COMputer Students SOciety. She also received various university awards by winning inter-school design competitions.