David Hamilton

Principal, Design Intelligence — Block

Designed GM's Tesla Supercharger onboarding across 3 apps.

Cadillac LYRIQ at Tesla Supercharger — shipped activation flow across myChevrolet, myGMC, myCadillac. 17,800 stations.

Rewrote GM's OTA update system from marketing to changelogs.

GM infotainment — versioned changelogs replaced marketing copy. Ships to every connected vehicle.

Rewrote GM's global privacy policy from legal to human.

Built the content design practice at GM. 23 people. 5 managers.

Led content design at Meta. L7. 3 managers. 19 ICs.

Directed Oklahoma's COVID vaccine campaign. #2 in the nation.

Wrote the messaging that won GE Aviation a $517M Army contract.

T901 first ground run on UH-60M Black Hawk — West Palm Beach, January 2025. GE won the $517M contract.

Now building AI-native design tooling at Block.

Nights, I built Open Primitive — 30 federal data domains,

Ed25519 signed, 33 MCP tools. The data layer of the agent internet.

GET /v1/water?zip=48201

{
  "domain": "water",
  "source": "EPA SDWIS",
  "confidence": 0.92,
  "proof": { "algorithm": "Ed25519" }
}

I believe the hardest design problems are structural, not visual.

I believe language is infrastructure.

I believe the internet is splitting in two and we are not ready.

Johns Hopkins — MA, Change Communications

Hope College — BA, Business and Politics