# Trevor McNaughton

> trvr.co — Personal site and portfolio of Trevor McNaughton, a product design leader based in Oakland, CA.

## About

Trevor McNaughton is a Principal Product Designer at MoonPay, where he leads design initiatives across MoonPay's product ecosystem. He joined MoonPay through the acquisition of Meso, a crypto payments startup he helped build from first commit as founding designer.

He has 14+ years of product design experience, two startups (both acquired), and a track record of shipping across payments, conversational AI, developer tools, and consumer mobile. He designs and builds — prototyping in production code, building internal tools, and bridging design and engineering.

## Career

- **MoonPay** (2022–present): Principal Product Designer. Leads design initiatives across MoonPay's product ecosystem. Shipped mobile app, headless ramps, Connect and Auth UI. Built AI-powered design workflows with Claude and MCP integrations, custom Figma plugins connected to frontend codebase.
- **Meso** (2021–2022): Founding Designer. Built product from zero to acquisition by MoonPay.
- **Apple / Siri** (2017–2021): Joined via acquisition of init.ai. Conversational design at 1B+ device scale.
- **init.ai** (2015–2017): Co-Founder & Head of Design. NLU platform for human conversation. Acquired by Apple.
- **Braintree / PayPal** (2013–2016): Senior Product Designer. Merchant experiences and developer integration flows.

## Key Skills

- Product design leadership, 0→1 and at scale
- Two-time founder, two acquisitions (init.ai → Apple, Meso → MoonPay)
- Designs and codes: production prototypes, internal tools, design system tooling
- AI-native practice: Claude workflows, MCP servers, Figma plugin development
- Domains: payments/fintech, conversational AI/NLP, developer tools, consumer mobile
- Team building through ambiguity: reorgs, acquisitions, rapid scaling

## MCP Server

Trevor's portfolio is also available as a remote MCP server for AI agents and tools:
- Endpoint: https://mcp.trvr.co/mcp
- Discovery: https://trvr.co/.well-known/mcp.json

## Links

- Site: https://trvr.co
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/trevormcnaughton
- GitHub: https://github.com/trevormcnaughton
- Email: trevor.mcnaughton@gmail.com