Hey, I'm Ilonah (uh-law-nuh)

🔨 Designing for Reduced over-permissioning of agents and flows at GitLab
💭 Reading on The end of reading

Selected Work

I've helped teams ship enterprise tools that keep users secure and experiences they can trust.

Securing token credentials with fine-grained permissions
2025
GitLab
Enabling separation of duties across the platform
2024–25
GitLab
Modernizing user authentication with Passkeys
2024–25
GitLab
Driving growth through self service purchase
2022
Pantheon
Simplifying website domain management
2022
Pantheon

About Me

I spend my time outside of work making art with watercolor and futzing about with analog cameras.

DESIGN BACKGROUND

I enjoy working within complex systems, collaborating closely with teams to unwind technical concepts like permissions, identity, and governance into experiences that feel clear and usable.

Before design I spent years in Business Operations and Finance. That background gave me an instinct for the business logic underneath a product decision and the experience working through ambiguous problem spaces where the scope is still being defined and the solution has to hold up across an entire platform.

How I got here

I studied Business Finance at San Francisco State University then pivoted into technology working for high-growth startups in operations and monetization. In 2020, I recognized how monetization programs can only scale with product partnership and pivoted to Product Design. I'm currently at GitLab designing authorization and access control systems.

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