Meet the team: Nick Kyrkewood

What do you do at zeroheight?

I lead the Engineering team – making sure the team are happy and productive, working on how the team grows (hiring, but also how things change as we get bigger), plus making sure everyone in the team has opportunities to grow and develop. I also work with the team on making decisions around some of our longer-term choices – strategies for certain parts of our tech, for example.

What excites you most about the future of DesignOps?

That we’ve just scratched the surface – there’s so much we can do to make it easy for people designing and building products to work together, which ultimately means better-designed products become more and more common for everyone.

Favorite thing that zeroheight does?

That it massively lowers the barrier to entry to having a great design system – it’s super easy (and free!) to get started and have something useful up and running quickly.

Favorite thing at zeroheight?

Bit cheesy, but the people – it’s really impressive how our company values are so consistently exemplified by the fantastic team. It’s a really fun environment, and everyone’s looking out for each other – it’s super impressive!

What album, book, and luxury item would you take if you were marooned on a desert island?

Perhaps a bit of a rogue choice, but for the album Paul Oakenfold’s Bunkka. Answering this just made me stick it on, and Southern Sun’s blasting as a type

For the book, it’d be The Great Gatsby – so many powerful themes and definitely one to read and reread.

But none of that would be any good without a cup of tea, so the luxury item would have to be some kind of tea-making device – a Teasmade?

What would your self-portrait look like?

Funny you should ask – here’s one I did in 1993