Companies our team has worked with

Before Cosmic, our founder led projects and teams at agencies, consultancies and in-house teams across the following clients:

Capital One
Led a greenfield portfolio of identity and access management products, running a team of 10 engineers.
Y Combinator
Client lead for the Y Combinator relationship with Garry Tan, delivering design, UX and development projects he referred directly to the agency.
ID.me
Client lead for the DC-based identity company: led product strategy, ideation and Rails development teams to deliver working apps and sites for the founder/CEO and chief product officer.
U.S. News & World Report
Client lead for the front-end redesign and development, delivered through an agency.
GEICO
Multiple engagements: digital transformation for insurance underwriting, B2C lead generation and electronic records management.
AARP
Application modernization for the member records system, at a previous software consultancy.
Aramark
Worked directly with the CIO to ideate, plan, research, design and build a site and application for the facility operations and services business.
Dick's Sporting Goods
Sales lead who scoped, planned, staffed and delivered $10 million in software modernization across e-commerce, merchandising, loyalty, rewards and inventory systems, including IBM WebSphere modernization and iOS development.
Sysco
Ran discovery workshops, ideation and hackathon mentoring at an internal Sysco hackathon, which led to two core e-commerce modernization projects.
University of Pennsylvania
Client lead for the full redesign of upenn.edu, with the dean and head of communications as stakeholders.
Johns Hopkins SAIS
Client lead for the SAIS campus sites across its three locations (Washington, DC, Italy and China), with the dean and head of IT as stakeholders.
The Atlantic Philanthropies
Client lead for a site redesign telling the story of Chuck Feeney, the billionaire philanthropist whose giving while living inspired the Giving Pledge, with the head of communications as stakeholder.
Bethesda Softworks
Client lead for branded game sites, including the Quake relaunch and Fallout pages.
Khan Academy
Sal Khan's first outside vendor: cold-emailed Sal in 2010 offering design help as he formed his team, then worked with Sal, Ben Kamens and Jason Rosoff on the v1 designs.
Massachusetts General Hospital
Client lead for the hospital's site redesign, working with the head of communications, delivered through an agency.
General Electric
Client lead for UX optimization work on GE's design system.