Jonathan Van Gils

Realm — Founder · Product Designer · Web Developer

Realm is a creative operating system for musicians and their teams.

• Founding and designing the product end to end: product strategy, UX/UI, and identity.
• Building the web experience directly in code — an interactive three.js universe (JavaScript/HTML/CSS) developed with agentic tooling (Claude Code, VS Code).

Any Given Night — Lead Product Designer (Contract)

A platform giving Los Angeles music lovers a new way to discover and engage with live music.

• Owned the full UX process for a music-tech startup, from secondary research through wireframing, Figma prototyping, user testing, and usability testing, to engineering handoff.
• Designed and coded an interactive three.js navigation for the landing page (JavaScript/HTML/CSS), developed in VS Code with Claude Code.
• Built an intelligent venue-scouting bot on the Claude API that scrapes concert listings from venue sites and extracts event details from poster images, automating aggregation for the founding team.
• Delivered developer-ready handoff and collaborated directly with engineering through implementation.

Radiant Confidence Circle — UX Designer (Contract)

A Udemy-powered coaching community on Circle.so.

• Contracted to transform the community into a brand-identity-driven UI on Circle.so.
• Designed the brand's landing page and end-to-end community experience.

Tako Tomago — Artist · Producer · Graphic Designer

Independent wave / melodic bass music project spanning recording, performance, sound design, and visual design.

• Generated over 3 million streams across platforms, with label releases (incl. Liquid Ritual) and top-10 Beatport chart placements.
• Created all graphic design and visual identity for the project — release artwork, brand, and promotion.
• Performed live in Seattle, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
• Designed, produced, and sold vocal sample packs and monthly sound-pack subscriptions via Bandcamp and Patreon, handling all sound design and vocal production.

Apple — Specialist, The Grove

• Customer-facing Specialist at one of Apple's flagship Los Angeles retail locations, guiding customers to the right products and solutions.