UX/UI DESIGNER · TORONTO, ONTARIO

Rayan
Syed

a UX/UI designer based in Toronto, Ontario. I've spent the last few years as a Cloud Developer at BMO, and I'm now moving into UX/UI product design full-time.

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Selected
work

One professional case study, and two personal builds that keep the design muscle active.

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Marigold Instant Photobooth
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Marigold is a vintage-style instant photobooth I designed and built from scratch for weddings and corporate events. I modeled the aluminum frame in CAD first, then fabricated it in my garage using 8020 aluminum extrusion and wood — balancing a vintage look with the durability to handle multiple guests per event, survive repeated transport, and fit the camera and printer hardware I already had.

  • Frame — modeled in CAD first, then built from 8020 aluminum extrusion for a rigid, precise structure.
  • Finish — wood cladding and vintage-inspired detailing to hide the modern hardware inside.
  • Built to travel — sturdy enough for multiple guests per event, and designed to break down and move between bookings.
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Rayan Syed outdoors wearing a North Face jacket

About

I'm a UX/UI designer based in Toronto, Ontario, with an Honors Bachelor's in Computer Science from Sheridan College. I currently work as a Cloud Developer at BMO, building APIs on AWS — but my first real product design work happened back at Sheridan, prototyping and usability-testing a mobile app for a nonprofit client. Outside of work, I do photography, which is where a lot of my eye for composition and light actually comes from.

  • Real design process — usability testing, personas, and journey maps from client work, not just theory.
  • Full-stack fluency — years shipping production APIs on AWS, plus React and Swift.
  • A photographer's eye — composition, light, and framing from photography.

Résumé

Experience
Jul 2022 – Present
Cloud Developer
Bank of Montreal · Toronto, ON

Design and build APIs on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3) that handle customer data across the bank, working closely with solution architects and QA.

May 2021 – Aug 2021
Product Designer
Sheridan College · Oakville, ON

Prototyped a mobile app for Black Mentorship Inc. in Figma and Photoshop, running usability tests and building personas and journey maps.

Feb 2020 – Aug 2020
Software Developer Intern
Survalent Technology · Brampton, ON

Built Python automation to track customer support metrics via the Salesforce API, and helped stand up VMs for customers worldwide.

Education
Sept 2017 – Dec 2021
Honors B.Sc., Computer Science
Sheridan College

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada