Overview

At nMachine, I led product design for a new internal developer platform (IDP) built to help platform engineers orchestrate infrastructure as programmable software. I focused on defining the product’s conceptual structure, first-use experience, and reusable UI systems—shaping the foundation for future features and scale.

Laying the Foundation: The Projects That Mattered

System Model:

wOrganized around the activities taking place

What I did: I worked closely with engineering leadership to define the platform’s conceptual architecture:

• 0. Workspaces (Admin): The top-level container for teams, asset grouping, access control, and platform configuration.
• 1. Telemetry: Real-time observability across assets and resources, including health, deployment metrics, and usage data.
• 2. Computation Editor: An embedded code editing interface for writing, configuring, and deploying computation logic tied to assets.
• 3. Dashboards: Visualization layer for performance monitoring
• 4. Resources: Underlying infrastructure like compute, networking, and DNS that power Assets.

Why it mattered: This model gave structure to the platform’s UI, navigation, and permissions. It helped users form a clear mental model of how computation runs on infrastructure and provided the foundation for operability, visibility, and control.

0. Onboarding & Workspace Configuration

1. Telemetry Dashboard

2. Asset Management & Computation Editor