Vetted Design Systems Professionals

Stella Zeng

Screened

Mid-Level Product Designer specializing in AI-powered UX and accessibility

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Product designer focused on complex, rules-heavy workflows, with recent end-to-end ownership of Casehero.ai (AI-assisted tooling for immigration lawyers) including interaction model, visual language, and a reusable design system. Uses deep field research (shadowing, live sessions) to simplify overwhelming experiences and reports ~70% reduction in manual effort/time after redesigns; also has accessibility-focused work on Captify for deaf and hard-of-hearing users.”

Todd List

Screened

Senior Creative Designer specializing in performance marketing and scalable visual systems

Warren, MI7y exp

“Marketing creative/designer with experience producing enterprise digital campaign assets (General Motors) and statewide public awareness campaigns (MDHHS, reaching 100K+ residents). Specializes in scalable, system-driven production—building tokenized Figma design systems and modular templates plus a fast CapCut workflow to ship high-volume, on-brand variants quickly with strong clarity and accessibility.”

Jinyao Ouyang

Screened

Mid-level Design Engineer specializing in product UX and front-end systems

Grand Rapids, MI4y exp

“Designer-engineer who independently rebuilt the Flexi-Casa ecommerce experience end-to-end as a headless Shopify/Next.js storefront. Stands out for combining UX, frontend implementation, analytics, and A/B testing in one role, using funnel analysis to identify conversion issues and ship data-informed IA and UI improvements.”

“Product designer-developer leading the modernization of One Shot Records from a legacy PHP storefront to a React/Next.js marketplace experience. Particularly interesting for combining UX, frontend engineering, and product strategy—he not only redesigned the mobile-heavy experience, but also proposed a shift from eBay-style sales to a barter-based marketplace model backed by AI validation and a multi-layer API/data architecture.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience revamping IPTV native TV apps (Android TV, Xfinity, LG, Samsung), building scalable, lazy-loaded home page and content experiences that remain stable as backend playlists change. Emphasizes component/modular architecture (including MVP on Android TV), strong quality practices (CI, unit tests, code reviews, manual device testing), and modern React+TypeScript state management using Zustand with clean separation of business logic from UI.”

“Frontend/platform-leaning engineer who owned a shared React component library (design-system style) adopted across multiple SPAs, with strong discipline around SemVer, deprecation strategy, and developer documentation. Also has backend/distributed-systems experience diagnosing and fixing a Kafka microservice race condition and has led prioritization/migration planning in an unstructured monolith-to-microservices environment (Centene).”

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end redesign experience on the Discover Mobile Banking App, focused on rebuilding interaction models and a WCAG 2.1-compliant visual system to improve accessibility outcomes (including Lighthouse score). Also redesigned a restaurant ordering/management SaaS (RestroZap), translating complex operational and configuration workflows into guided, non-technical user experiences through field research, progressive disclosure, and iterative prototyping in Figma.”

Michael Chaves

Screened

Senior Creative Technologist & Full-Stack UX Engineer specializing in Generative AI and XR

Los Altos, CA12y exp

“Design engineer/product designer who built an end-to-end creator + review/moderation system for a UGC platform, spanning automated checks, human QA, final review, and creator feedback. Comfortable working directly with HTML/CSS/TypeScript and component systems, using prototyping and field observation to reduce reviewer hesitation, improve consistency, and prevent creator errors upstream.”

“Co-founded filmboard.io, a creative collaboration platform for video producers, and owned end-to-end product design from user discovery through Figma prototyping and a scalable, accessibility-minded design system. Also contributed hands-on front-end work in a MERN stack, collaborating with engineers to ship designs and resolve UI/CSS implementation gaps, including workflows for editing embedded Vimeo videos and client-facing presentation views.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python microservices and AWS platforms, including a hybrid Lambda + ECS Fargate architecture managed with Terraform and CI/CD. Has hands-on reliability experience (JWT/OAuth, timeouts, retries, centralized error classification) and built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines consolidating PostgreSQL/RDS, MongoDB, and S3 sources into curated partitioned Parquet datasets. Demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (8 minutes to 25 seconds) and disciplined legacy-to-modern migrations with parity validation and UAT sign-off.”

“Frontend engineer in an insurance SaaS white-label environment who transformed a fragmented ecosystem of 100+ duplicated React repos into a scalable platform using versioned NPM libraries (CommonWeb/WorkflowWeb). Built a JSON-driven, multi-step quote and payment workflow in React+TypeScript with Redux-Saga for complex async orchestration and reliability (idempotency, retries, takeLatest). Delivered measurable impact: 35% bundle reduction, onboarding cut from weeks to days, and bug fixes propagated across clients in hours.”

“Senior designer with experience delivering premium, performance-oriented marketing creative for brands including BFGoodrich, Modelo, Corona, Coway, and HydraFacial. Builds scalable Figma design systems and modular template frameworks for high-volume multi-channel output (web, email, paid, decks, events), and also produces short-form CapCut videos optimized for major social platforms. Has worked fully remote since 2017 and has executed full Spanish-language adaptations of campaigns to expand audience reach.”

Jeffrey Ren

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React and Ruby on Rails SaaS

Henderson, NV4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who led an end-to-end rebuild of a service-agent case management app (React SPA + backend/DB updates) and added Datadog monitoring, improving agent throughput by ~1 case/hour and saving roughly $15K/month. Experienced in incremental legacy modernization (including moving a legacy React frontend toward a Rails-based approach) with heavy unit/E2E testing and strong cross-team stakeholder communication.”

Nehemiah Dias

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in design systems and real-time SaaS platforms

San Francisco, CA11y exp

“Full-stack product builder who has repeatedly taken end-to-end ownership in startup environments, including building PromoFlow solo and architecting the entire software backbone for Hard Drive. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous product needs into scalable systems, from real-time Firebase apps to shared component libraries and redesigned Postgres architectures, while also bridging non-technical founders, design, and engineering.”