Vetted Design Systems Professionals

“Frontend engineer/lead who has owned end-to-end architecture for large customer-facing React/Next.js platforms, emphasizing strong API contracts (GraphQL + TypeScript codegen), automated quality guardrails, and performance as a feature. Built complex workflow UIs including a multi-step patient booking flow for New York’s largest healthcare provider and an admin dashboard handling 400,000+ USDA ingredient records, with disciplined state management, staged rollouts, and real-user monitoring.”

“Startup product designer with a CS background who operates at the intersection of UX, product strategy, and implementation. They have owned 0-to-1 design systems, led a research-backed pivot of Fluffle from a solo job tracker to a multiplayer productivity app, and specialize in trust-building UX for AI-native products while working closely enough with engineers to influence production quality.”

Briggs Clinard

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Mid-level Product Designer specializing in UX/UI for sports data and analytics

Brooklyn, NY5y exp

“Product Designer 2 with strong end-to-end ownership on Opta Graphics, a self-service platform for sports content creators. They combined client research, design systems rigor, and analytics-based iteration to launch core workflows like open canvas, brand kits, and a consolidated asset library, contributing to customer win-backs and new client onboarding.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong Next.js App Router/TypeScript experience who built production dataset search/filtering and data-heavy dashboards backed by Postgres. Demonstrates hands-on performance work across the stack (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, composite indexes, caching, React profiling/memoization) and has built durable, Temporal-like orchestrated data-processing workflows with idempotency and retry strategies in an early-stage startup environment (Gaia AI).”

“Product/UX designer with experience building an end-to-end AI campaign/session platform that converted an engineer-led, code-heavy workflow into a self-serve marketer product using a target/act/schedule interaction model, progressive disclosure, and real-time previews. Also redesigned monitoring for Informatica’s enterprise data platform after field research with data engineers, shifting the UI toward lifecycle views and failure-state observability.”

“Marketing creative/designer with a portfolio at https://billrodella.com who claims end-to-end ownership of design work. Mentions building a Figma design system for a major dental brand and producing lightweight marketing videos using Adobe Creative Cloud and Final Cut Pro; targets $125k+ base.”

Aakanksha Desai

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Kubernetes, and AI-powered apps

Scottsdale, Arizona2y exp

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer managing multiple customer service platforms end-to-end (requirements through deployment). Built an in-house Python monitoring/alerting solution for Salesforce-to-Java contact sync jobs (Snowflake dependencies) that increased uptime ~60%, and helped modernize delivery by moving the team from manual releases to automated Jenkins-based deployments while coordinating an Oracle EBS→Fusion transition with business/data/IT stakeholders.”

Ramyasree K

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Mid-level DevOps/Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS infrastructure automation

Boston, MA4y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience building a large-scale React + TypeScript administrative dashboard for an e-commerce platform, using Redux Toolkit plus TanStack Query to separate UI and server state. Emphasizes quality at scale through CI/CD automation, Jest/integration testing, and performance techniques like code splitting and caching, with experience coordinating integration across multiple teams.”

Clea Ramos

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Junior UX/UI Designer and Front-End Engineer specializing in accessible web products

Pennsylvania, USA4y exp

“UX/UI designer and frontend engineer with hands-on project leadership experience, including leading a 6-person engineering team to deliver an accessible video conferencing system for older adults in senior care. Particularly compelling for mission-driven or health-adjacent products: they combined stakeholder research, WCAG-minded design, frontend implementation, and post-launch testing to improve usability and cut system cost by 40%+.”

“Product designer at early-stage startup Pomu who combines user research, systems thinking, and hands-on implementation to shape product direction—not just screens. She helped redirect the core search experience from keyword-only to image-plus-keyword based on founder interviews, collaborated directly with ML engineering, and also codes polished front-end interactions on her own portfolio site.”

“Senior/Lead Frontend/Full-Stack engineer in Toronto with proven experience shipping high-stakes, real-time and regulated products across healthcare, legal/compliance, and fintech. Built a real-time compliance dashboard that survived a 400% data spike and a no-code workflow builder supporting 500+ nodes, with strong emphasis on performance engineering, type-safe architecture, and automated quality/rollout practices.”

Hiteksha Godhani

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud-native web apps

Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led customer-facing web products end-to-end, with strong emphasis on scalable component architecture, design systems, and automated quality gates (CI + unit/integration/E2E). Experienced building complex React+TypeScript dashboards with thoughtful state separation and shipping fast via feature flags/canary releases while monitoring and optimizing real-world performance issues.”

Sanjana Akula

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

New York, NY5y exp

“Front-end engineer with experience at Optum and Wells Fargo maintaining internal React/Angular component libraries and design-system-aligned UI modules used across multiple apps. Known for stabilizing shared libraries via semantic versioning, Jest test automation, and high-quality documentation, plus measurable performance wins (≈40% faster dashboard loads) through profiling-driven React and API optimizations.”

Anirudh Venkatesh

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Mid-level XR/Unity Developer specializing in AR/VR and immersive applications

Riverside, CA5y exp

“Unity developer with hands-on experience across VR, AR, multiplayer, and AI-driven gameplay systems. They’ve owned end-to-end interaction architecture for VR cognitive testing focused on accessibility, integrated Gemini-based command systems into gameplay, and shipped cross-platform immersive applications spanning Magic Leap 2, iOS, and Photon-powered multiplayer experiences.”

“Marketing/visual designer with government/energy experience, including leading DOE infographic work translating highly technical industrial decarbonization content into clear, accessible narratives. Builds scalable template systems (infographics and InDesign fact sheets) for high-volume output, and produces social video content using Adobe Express with custom Illustrator iconography and Adobe Stock backgrounds.”

“UX designer (3 years) with a UI engineering background who has built an end-to-end accessible STEM learning experience for blind/visually impaired students, including a MathML-to-MathSpeak parsing solution and multimodal feedback (screen reader, braille keyboard, haptics). Also simplified an AI-driven scoring/onboarding workflow at Founderway.ai using progressive disclosure and iterative usability testing tied to measurable improvements.”

“Software engineer with experience at Wipro Technologies and Wells Fargo building React-based SPAs, reusable component libraries, and developer documentation. Demonstrated strong performance engineering (React.memo, list virtualization, code splitting) with reported >50% rendering-time improvement, plus hands-on production support by diagnosing API outages via monitoring/logs and implementing traffic/server fixes. Comfortable leading workstreams in fast-changing environments using Kanban and tight stakeholder feedback loops.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70% application-layer) who has shipped multi-tenant RBAC for a formerly single-tenant platform, cutting infrastructure costs by 50%. Built high-impact customer-facing features including analytics dashboards (40% retention lift) and a React/TypeScript scheduling grid that reduced navigation time by 60% and setup time by 80%, with solid AWS operations and Postgres performance tuning experience.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership in fast-moving environments: designed and shipped a pre-order/campaign inventory system (NestJS + Strapi + Datadog) that freed 34% warehouse space and reduced stock risk to ~5.7%. Also built rapid, high-impact logistics features (Spot Sales) that drove last-mile cost to ~0 in ~40 days, and has hands-on AWS/Terraform/CI-CD experience including deploying a global RAG system with Pinecone, Datadog, and PagerDuty.”

Indupriya gummadi

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React/Next.js web applications

Detroit, MI5y exp

“Software engineer with airline operations domain experience building real-time dashboards and internal tools for frontline ops and customer support. Strong in TypeScript/React performance optimization and backend/microservices reliability (RabbitMQ, DLQs, autoscaling, correlation IDs/observability), with a track record of shipping incrementally via feature flags and driving organic adoption through pilot-led iteration.”

Darshan Togadiya

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native web apps

Rancho Cucamonga, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer in an early-stage startup who built an EV charger monitoring and payments dashboard from scratch, owning UI/UX (Figma), React frontend, Node/Postgres APIs, and production deployment/ops (Firebase + AWS). Demonstrated measurable impact (40% fewer reconciliation errors) and strong reliability chops through multi-source energy/payment ingestion, idempotent pipelines, and CloudWatch-driven incident resolution.”

“Frontend engineer who led Bentley’s flagship design system from a greenfield codebase to adoption across every major Bentley product, emphasizing maintainability and high UX polish. Built complex React+TypeScript interfaces like a Figma/Photoshop-style layers tree, applying advanced performance techniques (skeleton-first loading, transitions, memoization, deferred rendering) and iterative feature-flagged rollouts driven by user feedback.”

Yuyin Sun

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Mid-level Product Designer specializing in AI agent UX and B2B SaaS platforms

Burlingame, CA5y exp

“Product designer at Felixphere working on a pivot from a SaaS marketplace to a SaaS management platform, designing end-to-end SaaS integrations and an AI concierge/agent experience. Drove a strategic shift from complex custom connectors to standardized connectors through user research and prototyping, aligning executives and reducing development effort; also shipped user-informed features like a contract/payment calendar to reduce operational friction for customers.”