About

I'm Joshua Sortino, a design director, startup advisor, investor, and photographer, currently living in Miami and New York.

You can read my opinions regarding design and tech via Twitter and my blog. I'm available for advisory roles, speaking engagements, and brand promotion opportunities. For availability, email me.

Design

I created my first website at 10 years old and have been building products and businesses ever since — for companies like the NFL, NBA, Aol, Pfizer, Disqus, Spring, Square, and Brex. Today I'm focused on Fintech, Blockchain, and AI user experiences.

My background in both engineering and design spans the full spectrum of product development. I believe AI has collapsed the distance between an idea and a shipped product, and I help design teams use that — moving quicker, testing faster, and prototyping more than was ever possible. It also widens what designers can own: shipping real code and changing the product directly, rather than hoping designs survive handoff.

Photography

My photography has been globally recognized by publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch, National Geographic Education, the World Economic Forum², Barron's, Yahoo Finance², Condé Nast Traveler, Amazon, Uber, Fast Company, Popular Science, The Hindu, Quartz, Adweek, Gartner, Big Think, CoinDesk, Parade, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Redfin, AFAR, Sunset Magazine, Backpacker², PureWow, Thought Catalog, GitLab, Buffer, SF Weekly, Marin County, Huffington Post, and HackerNoon.