Vetted Design Systems Professionals

Emilie DeMun

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Senior Brand Designer specializing in multi-channel campaigns and visual identity systems

Seattle, WA12y exp

“Marketing creative/designer who helped lead the PopSockets brand refresh and owned the digital campaign rollout by translating new brand guidelines into scalable templates and a campaign guideline book. Built a collaborative Figma template system (design libraries + stakeholder feedback boards) to support high-volume output without quality drift, and uses Claude for structured ideation on partnership campaigns like Electric Picks x PopSockets.”

“Marketing motion/video creative with end-to-end ownership (storyboards, design, motion, edit) and a strong performance mindset (first-frame hooks, pacing, above-benchmark watch time). Built a scalable, compliance-safe Figma design system for a Merck vaccine website with locked components and medical/legal sign-offs, and produces high-volume multi-format social video via modular CapCut/After Effects templates in a fully remote, async workflow.”

“Frontend/UI lead with enterprise-scale experience on Verizon's vendor portal, a complex workflow system for fiber infrastructure contracts used by vendors, inspectors, and managers. He combines React micro-frontend architecture, TypeScript, and UX optimization to streamline demanding operational workflows, including reducing contract turnaround time from one week to two days and improving power-user efficiency with keyboard shortcuts and copy interactions.”

“Co-founder and employee #1 who built Reva, a vertically integrated conversational CRM for multifamily leasing and resident services, leading product, engineering, and design from inception through acquisition. Combines deep enterprise product leadership with early AI experience, including a pre-LLM chatbot that drove a 400% lift in lead conversion and prior edtech work where AI-enabled learning tools improved struggling students by a full letter grade on average.”

“Repeat early-stage startup CTO/first engineer who helped take Vettery from 0 to a $100M+ exit. Led product-oriented engineering with heavy investment in data science/ML, including a recommendations system and candidate evaluation model (90%+ predictive effectiveness), and scaled the modeling stack using parallel processing and Apache Airflow.”

“Data engineer in healthcare (HCA) who owned end-to-end Azure-based pipelines at very large scale (50M+ daily claims/patient records). Strong focus on reliability: schema-drift fail-fast validation, quarantine layers, and Python/SQL data quality checks that reduced issues ~25%, plus performance tuning in Databricks/PySpark and versioned serving in Synapse for downstream consumers.”

“Frontend-focused product engineer with strong React/TypeScript architecture depth who built a streaming AI chat demo at Cleanlab in just 2 weeks that became the centerpiece of every sales call. They combine real-time UX, API contract design, observability, and design-system ownership, and have also built high-density Kubernetes operational dashboards while stepping into product design when resources were limited.”

“Senior software developer with hands-on experience building real-time React + TypeScript dashboards and map-based visualization tools for large datasets. Stands out for practical frontend performance work in production, including memoization, virtualization, debouncing, lazy loading, and Google Maps optimization for thousands of records or points.”

Michael Zhu

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Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React and e-commerce UI

West Hollywood, CA5y exp

“Frontend engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who has shipped reusable CMS-driven UI architecture and improved production performance by eliminating inefficient per-component API calls. Particularly strong in maintainable component design, pagination/state management, and practical UX optimization using tools like Chrome DevTools and Theme UI.”

Yuanmu Li

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web applications

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“Full-stack product engineer in the health and wellness space who has owned prescription workflow features end to end, including React/TypeScript frontend work and GraphQL-backed API aggregation across messy downstream systems. Also shipped an internal OpenAI-powered support assistant with grounded context, structured outputs, validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards—showing strong practical judgment at the intersection of healthcare workflows and applied AI.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a reusable React component library (documented in Storybook) to standardize and speed up UI development across teams at Ikea, including a configurable, high-performance order list component. Also demonstrated end-to-end ownership in an unstructured environment at First Citizens Bank by defining API contracts and delivering backend services with caching and monitoring.”

Lucas Silbernagel

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Senior Front-End Software Engineer specializing in accessible, high-performance web apps

Toronto, Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who led the 2025 end-to-end launch of the Score Casino web platform, integrating a new regulated brand into an existing monorepo with scalable theming, Next.js routing changes, and supporting Docker/SRE deployment work. Emphasizes quality at scale through visual regression testing, Datadog/Bugsnag observability, and test-suite redesign (parameterized theme tests) that reduced CI flakiness; shipped the launch two months ahead of schedule while meeting GLI submission standards.”

Hetvi Shah

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React/Angular and Node.js

Toronto, Ontario6y exp

“Frontend lead who owned architecture and quality for TELUS’s Next Generation Sales Platform, building a modular React+TypeScript experience that scaled across wireline/wireless products and channels. Experienced in hardening UIs against unreliable backend integrations (API abstraction, retries/fallbacks, caching, logging) and delivering real-time dashboards via WebSockets, with strong CI/CD testing and blue-green release practices for high-stakes launches like Black Friday.”

“Founder of Business Online Strategic Solutions Digital Marketing, a 5-year bootstrapped digital marketing and web solutions startup serving small-to-mid-sized and enterprise clients. Focused on building scalable, performance-driven web experiences (web dev, UX/UI, CRO, marketing strategy) and is actively scaling capabilities in modern front-end development and AI-assisted workflows.”

“Built and owned full-stack features for a real-time pricing and inventory management platform at PDR Technologies, spanning React/TypeScript frontend architecture, Node.js APIs, and PostgreSQL-backed data flows. Stands out for driving a shift to micro-frontends with Nx and Webpack Module Federation, improving team independence and release speed while also delivering measurable frontend performance gains.”

“Long-tenured operations and technology leader from U.S. Luggage who grew from Director of IT into VP of Operations, ultimately managing roughly a third of the company across three brands. Brings unusual breadth spanning global IT, customer service, procurement, warehouse/3PL operations, and ERP transformation, with hands-on experience building an HP-facing extranet and coordinating complex international supply chain operations across the U.S., Taiwan, and China.”

Kyle Wilson

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Senior Technical Lead specializing in accessible, scalable web applications

Waterloo, Canada10y exp

“Frontend lead who shipped an enterprise social feed, insights dashboard, and a net-new communications platform using React + TypeScript. Known for building scalable quality practices with QA (including automated test suite alignment), introducing RTK Query org-wide, and managing phased, feature-flagged rollouts while coordinating closely with product/design and senior engineering stakeholders.”

“Product/UX designer with hands-on front-end implementation experience who has worked across both consumer and enterprise contexts, including a veterinary hospital funnel redesign and an AML fraud detection system. Stands out for tying UX decisions to measurable business outcomes, including a 17% reduction in dropoff after redesigning package selection and validating changes through usability testing.”

“Frontend engineer focused on marketing and analytics products, including a real-time multi-touch attribution dashboard. Uses Next.js (SSR/ISR) with React/TypeScript and Tailwind, and emphasizes quality at scale via automated testing, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), feature-flagged staged rollouts, and Mixpanel-driven iteration. Experienced modern state management patterns (React Query + Zustand) and performance tuning (code-splitting, dynamic imports, lazy loading).”

“Lead engineer/designer behind The Washington Post's internal live-tracker tooling and election coverage interfaces. They combine cloud architecture, frontend/data-viz craftsmanship, and close newsroom stakeholder collaboration to ship real-time, high-traffic journalism products that improved internal efficiency and supported major audience and subscriber outcomes.”

“Frontend-focused engineer at YTech Global with roughly 3.5 years on a logistics contract management platform, owning major pieces of architecture for micro frontends, real-time workflows, and operational dashboards. They describe building the first UI-based contract management experience for shippers and carriers, helping grow usage from 10,000 to 20,000 users while partnering closely with backend teams on API and WebSocket design.”

Nadia Elinbabi

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Senior Product and Systems Design Leader specializing in AI-enabled enterprise workflows

Charlotte, NC18y exp

“Former UX designer with 12 years in design who moved into product management and now leads complex AI-enabled retail experiences. Most notably, they championed Competitive Quote from an overlooked Hack Day prototype into a major initiative later valued at $300M over three years, combining strong product strategy, agentic UX thinking, and deep practical understanding of human-in-the-loop AI systems.”

“Product and UX leader with experience launching a new direct-to-consumer ecommerce channel inside an enterprise business and later optimizing it to double revenue and conversion. Also built early AI-assisted workflows in regulatory/risk software, with a strong emphasis on trust, human oversight, and adapting quickly to new domains through first-principles product thinking.”

“Product leader with 20 years of experience across startups and agencies, including leading the end-to-end rebuild of Filmik, an AI-enabled workflow platform for film and television production teams. Stands out for combining deep UX simplification instincts with human-centered AI thinking, using automation to reduce friction while preserving trust, control, and collaboration. Has also built and mentored globally distributed product, design, engineering, and delivery teams across multiple regions.”