Vetted Design Systems Professionals

Alireza Razinejad

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Senior Frontend Architect specializing in Angular, React, and FinTech web platforms

Yerevan, Armenia11y exp

“Fullstack engineer who has personally architected and implemented entire systems, including a clinic patient management platform and multi-tenant product capabilities. Stands out for combining domain-driven design with hexagonal architecture to keep fast-changing products maintainable, and for shipping customer-facing improvements that increased user satisfaction and helped drive revenue growth.”

“Frontend engineer with 5+ years building enterprise browser-based applications, especially Salesforce Experience Cloud portals in financial services. Stands out for combining reusable component architecture, browser-level performance debugging, and UX improvements for demanding advisor users, including reported 50% page-load gains and reduced support issues.”

“Built an AI-powered stylist / outfit recommendation product end to end, spanning React/TypeScript frontend, Postgres data modeling, serverless backend flows, and LLM-driven recommendation/explanation systems. Stands out for combining hands-on full-stack execution with strong product judgment around ambiguity, UX polish, reusable primitives, and AI trust/explainability.”

“Frontend lead on an SME CRM for a bank, building a scalable multi-country/multi-product React/Next.js platform with a config-driven onboarding workflow and multi-role permissions. Emphasizes quality and maintainability through CI gates, a full testing pyramid, and disciplined server-state caching with RTK Query, plus feature-flagged rollouts and data-driven iteration from pilot user feedback.”

“Software engineer with a graphic design/marketing background who led a 4-month U.S. Department of State Diplomacy Lab project delivering a proprietary React/Electron + Flask + PostgreSQL scheduling app, including OKTA SSO integration under strict government confidentiality constraints. Also has hands-on production web experience fixing a broken WordPress/Elementor content system by scripting automated recategorization and date corrections.”

Andrii Kasian

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React/TypeScript, architecture, and design systems

Remote11y exp

“Frontend engineer/lead with deep React + TypeScript experience who has built complex workflow-style interfaces (node/connection editor with debugging panel) and used RxJS to manage intricate event/state flows. Strong focus on scalable architecture (SOLID, separation of concerns), performance at scale (caching, pagination, virtualization), and reliability (memory leak investigation and cleanup), backed by disciplined code review and documentation practices.”

Gregory Koteles

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Director-level Art Director & Web Designer specializing in UX/UI, branding, and growth marketing

Los Angeles, CA26y exp

“Marketing-focused web and creative designer who ships conversion-oriented Shopify and WordPress redesigns, pairing premium UX/UI craft with practical SEO and measurement (metadata, analytics/KPI tracking, Search Console). Comfortable operating under strict brand guidelines (e.g., Microsoft/Disney) while iterating quickly with growth/product partners, and also produces lightweight, multi-format marketing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro.”

“Front-end engineer focused on sophisticated, high-stakes enterprise UIs in privacy computing and healthcare-related products. They combine deep browser-performance knowledge with TypeScript/React architecture, and can point to concrete impact like zero critical UI bugs, 40% faster configuration flows, and nearly 90% fewer configuration-related failures.”

“Senior motion designer/creative producer with 15 years of high-end motion, video, and photography experience, including 9 years at Inovalon building enterprise brand systems. Known for translating complex healthcare journeys into polished explainer content and for scalable, modular frameworks that empower large teams (300+ employees). Also integrates generative AI (Weavy + Figma) trained on brand guidelines and original photography to maintain brand consistency at high output volume.”

“Frontend engineer/product lead with experience building a Tableau-like data visualization dashboard at StradigiAI, including a scalable SQL-like query/filter approach for high-volume data. At LogMeIn/GoTo, migrated a TypeScript React product from Redux to React Query with shared state abstractions across web, Electron, and React Native, and helped leverage a design system to support a rapid company rebrand.”

“Product/UX designer with experience digitizing Penske trucking operations and Ridecell fleet lifecycle/workshop orchestration systems. Designs complex, high-liability industrial workflows using a state-driven interaction model and a calm, high-clarity visual language, backed by targeted field research with drivers and ops teams and strong collaboration with engineers (React/Tailwind, Storybook, code-linked prototypes).”

“Marketing/design creative with experience delivering high-polish brand and web work under complex conditions (including multiple acquisitions), driving measurable growth (2x traffic, +60% organic search, SEO gains across 50+ terms). Also designs product UI in Figma leveraging Material UI patterns and builds modular Instagram video templates in Adobe Premiere/After Effects for scalable content production.”

“Two-time founder and former CTO/CPO who has shipped and operated full-stack products solo, including a real-time community platform (Twitter/Slack-like) with Next.js/TypeScript, WebSockets, Redis, and strong post-launch analytics (PostHog/Sentry). Also built durable multi-step AI-agent workflows using Inngest with state machines, checkpointing, and validation gates, and has hands-on Postgres performance tuning experience validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“Full-stack product engineer in a high-growth startup environment who led a revenue- and retention-driving Loyalty Pass feature end-to-end using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, and Postgres. They pair strong frontend performance instincts with backend reliability work, including Stripe-based onboarding/billing refactors, idempotent workflows, and production observability.”

Shivashankar Galla

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Senior Technical Lead specializing in front-end architecture and micro frontends

Fremont, CA12y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who describes leading the end-to-end architecture of Albertsons' partner portal, consolidating fragmented vendor and merchant workflows into a single micro-frontend platform. He highlights significant business impact through a reported $20M/year savings, plus hands-on ownership across observability dashboards, BFF/GraphQL API design, and cross-functional architecture decisions.”

“Product leader with early-stage startup experience who has built product teams and worked on complex cross-border payments infrastructure at Navro. Also building an AI-native editorial side project, using Claude and automation to source scientific research, translate it for mainstream audiences, and streamline publishing end-to-end.”

“Marketing designer with hands-on experience delivering high-impact physical brand experiences, including end-to-end trade show booth/space design for Payactiv across 5+ events (booth layouts, walls, print collateral, and swag) with heavy cross-functional and vendor coordination. Also builds scalable Figma systems for frequent landing-page production and produces lightweight marketing videos in CapCut using templates, AI background removal, and platform-specific exports.”

“Frontend engineer focused on high-scale React + TypeScript dashboards, including an internal Instagram creator/agency analytics dashboard handling extremely large datasets (1–2TB) with virtualization and performance profiling to maintain ~60fps UX. Experienced in modern state management (Redux Toolkit/RTK Query), modularizing legacy codebases into shared component libraries (Storybook), and shipping fast with feature flags plus automated QA (Playwright/Selenium).”

“Marketing/brand designer with lead design experience on Aurelio's Pizza creative (including a responsive website redesign that improved mobile engagement and 'Order Now' clicks). Also contributed to maintaining and scaling a Figma design system at Cars, upgrading components for Auto Layout consistency and enabling high-volume, modular campaign production with strong async collaboration (Slack/Figma/Jira).”

“Marketing designer with experience across education (Perfection Learning), member benefits platforms (National Purchasing Partners), healthcare marketing (San Francisco Health Plan), and Autodesk—spanning high-polish print/digital creative, scalable Figma design systems, and rapid multi-channel video production. Known for building modular component/template libraries that enable high-volume output while maintaining brand consistency and clarity, and for collaborating effectively with growth/UA and product teams in remote async workflows.”

“Frontend-focused builder with startup and open-source experience, including a real estate management SaaS for homeowners that integrated AI document parsing, OCR, auto-tagging, and chatbot features. They also show strong product instincts through A/B testing, direct user interviews, and community-led design decisions that achieved roughly 90% acceptance.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Co-founder at Skarbe who built “Oskar,” an autonomous sales agent that handles inbound email, lead qualification, and automated follow-ups using a multi-agent architecture (OpenAI Agents SDK) with a human-in-the-loop learning phase for reliability. Also owned scaling and reliability of Gmail/Outlook sync, including a Node.js-to-Rails migration and incident response during a Product Hunt launch that generated hundreds of signups and a ~2M-email queue.”

Penny Asawadilockchai

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Mid-Level Product Designer specializing in human-centered UX/UI

Oakland, CA4y exp

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end experience building a borrower-facing intake platform that coordinates AI automation and human review across borrowers, loan officers, and processors. Emphasizes explicit system states, clear handoffs, and exception-based visibility to increase trust in high-stakes underwriting/document workflows, using Figma prototyping and close engineering collaboration to ship feasible, scalable interactions.”