2026 – Now
Founder & Lead Engineer
LandRoamer · Monument, CO
Founded, designed and built an off-road navigation app for iOS, Android, CarPlay and the web, from first sketch to the app stores.
Open to senior product design & product engineering roles
I take products from idea to shipped.
I’m Chris Sagherian, a product designer and full-stack engineer in Colorado with 15+ years of production software behind me. I design as I build, in working code, so every decision gets tested by how it actually works. Today I build AI-first.
15+ years
designing and shipping production web, SaaS and mobile software
8%
average conversion lift from A/B-tested landing pages at American Financing
10–15%
year-over-year online donation growth at VNA Texas
Solo
founder, designer and engineer of LandRoamer, live on iOS and Android
Selected work
Products I’ve designed, built and shipped
My own products, a national mortgage lender and a major nonprofit, plus two small AI builds you can try live.
2026 – now
LandRoamer
An off-road trail navigation and trip-planning app for iOS, Android, CarPlay and the web. I founded it, then designed and built it on my own: product, UX, native apps, backend, billing and release.
Launched on the App Store and Google Play in September 2026, with a growing community of off-road members.
Visit landroamer.io
2025 – 2026
Lattia
A free, multi-tenant fundraising platform for nonprofits: donation pages, storefronts and email campaigns, designed, built and run in production on my own.
Read the case study
2024 – 2025
American Financing
A national mortgage lender’s website redesign, a two-step landing-page funnel that lifted form submissions 8–18%, and a borrower portal you can read at a glance.
Read the case study
2014 – 2024
VNA Texas
Nine years owning digital for a major regional nonprofit: steady donation growth, a mobile rebuild of a checkout I wasn’t allowed to edit, and a volunteer platform built for one hand on a porch.
Read the case study
2025
LuxList
AI-native luxury real-estate search. Describe a home in one sentence; Claude turns it into a structured search, and results honestly separate exact matches from close ones.
Read the case study
2026
Loom
A design system that builds itself. Describe a component in plain language and Claude generates it live, using the brand’s tokens and the components you’ve already committed.
It runs through a small server-side proxy with per-visitor rate limits and a daily cap, so the API key never reaches the browser.
Try the live workspaceHow I work
A designer’s judgment, at AI-first speed
I work across the whole product: research, system, code and release. AI agents now do a lot of the typing. The decisions, the edge cases and the quality bar stay with me.
Find the real problem
Start with the people using it: their constraints, their context, and the edge cases a demo never shows.
Design in the build
I design in working code, not static mockups, so layouts, flows and edge cases get tested with real data from day one.
Build AI-first
Claude Code is my primary development workflow. I scope the work, direct the agent and review every change before it ships.
Verify, ship, listen
Type checks and build verification on every release, then real users, real feedback and the next iteration.
Working with AI
Most teams don’t struggle with AI. They struggle with how to use it.
Too little effort and you get shallow work you can’t ship. Maximum effort on everything burns time and budget. The skill is matching the effort to the project, so every token buys power, speed or quality where it counts. Slide to see how I’d set it.
AI effort
Medium
For everyday product work with clear requirements: building components and forms, wiring up APIs and data, and refactors with a defined scope. The balance point for speed, quality and cost.
Best for
- Components and forms
- API and data wiring
- Scoped refactors
Reasoning depthModerate
TurnaroundFast
Token useBalanced
Monument, Colorado
About
Hi, I’m Chris.
I’m a product designer and full-stack engineer with more than 15 years of shipping production software. I’m most useful where design and engineering meet: I research the problem, design the product as I build it, then launch it and support it.
Right now I’m the founder of LandRoamer, an off-road navigation app I designed and built on my own. Before that I built Lattia, a fundraising platform for nonprofits; led UX/UI at American Financing, a national mortgage lender; and spent nine years running every digital channel at VNA Texas.
The work I’m drawn to: hard product problems with real users, design systems that survive contact with engineering, and the edge cases other designers skip.
- Looking for
- Senior product design & product engineering roles
- Work style
- Remote, or relocation for the right team
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Experience
Where I’ve done the work
2025 – Now
Senior Product Designer & Full-Stack Engineer
Independent · Remote
Lattia, LuxList, Loom and contract work for VNA Texas. Design and engineering end to end: UX/UI, design systems, architecture and payments.
2024 – 2025
Lead UX/UI Designer
American Financing Corporation · Denver, CO
Led UX/UI, brand modernization and conversion optimization for a national mortgage lender, including the landing-page A/B testing program.
2014 – 2024
Digital Engagement Manager
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas · Dallas, TX
Owned web, email, donation campaigns, brand photography and video for a major regional nonprofit, reporting to senior leadership.
2018 – 2020
Creative Director
DFW Video Services · Dallas, TX
Ran a video production studio for corporate, commercial and event clients, including Microsoft and CBRE.
2012 – 2014
Director of Web Development
Z Group Communications
Led web design and development for agency clients, working directly with executive stakeholders to design, build and ship production websites.
Toolkit
What I work with
Product & UX design
- Figma (variables, tokens, libraries)
- Design systems
- Prototyping
- User research
- Usability testing
- Accessibility (WCAG)
- Information architecture
Mobile
- React Native
- Expo
- TypeScript
- CarPlay
- Offline-first apps
- Push notifications
- In-app subscriptions
- App Store & Google Play release
Web front end
- React 19
- TypeScript
- Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- Responsive design
- Mapbox GL JS
Back end & data
- PostgreSQL
- Supabase
- Node.js
- Cloudflare Workers
- PHP / Laravel
- MySQL
- Stripe Connect
- Amazon SES
AI
- Claude Code
- Anthropic API
- LLM pipelines
- Prompt design
- Serverless AI proxies
- Cursor
Growth & content
- A/B testing
- Conversion optimization
- Google Analytics 4
- SEO
- Email marketing
- Video & photography
Contact
Let’s build something good together.
I’m open to senior product design, product engineering and founding-engineer roles, remote or with relocation for the right team.