Vetted Design Systems Professionals

“Product-minded frontend/UX leader with notable experience at CNBC, where they owned premium subscription and engagement flows from problem definition through production and post-launch iteration. They stand out for combining high-polish React implementation, Figma-driven systems thinking, and AI-assisted prototyping to quickly ship and refine conversion-focused experiences.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production ML/LLM systems: built a real-time FastAPI inference API on Kubernetes with strong reliability patterns (timeouts, idempotent retries, centralized error handling). Delivered AWS platforms using EKS + Lambda with GitHub Actions/Helm CI/CD and built Glue-based ETL from S3/Kafka into Snowflake with schema evolution and data-quality controls; also modernized legacy analytics/recommendation workflows into Python services with safe, feature-flagged cutovers.”

“Engineer with startup experience at a Series B company, where they worked through high ambiguity and personally led an observers feature for a video conferencing platform. They also bring B2B SaaS experience building feature-flagged, permission-sensitive products for customers ranging from startups to large enterprises, plus migration experience moving an acquired app from .NET into a React/Next.js ecosystem.”

Hardy Lou

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in front-end architecture and enterprise web apps

Santa Clara, CA10y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer with strong full-stack collaboration experience across TikTok and Rivian, owning complex internal platforms from concept to production. Stands out for combining product thinking with technical depth: led a high-impact reporting platform initiative that materially increased adoption and CSAT, and also incubated an AI lead-research agent from scratch without a PM.”

“Fintech engineer with high-ownership startup experience at Column, where they led a Go rewrite of a core banking API that cut transaction errors by 98% and increased throughput by 40%. Brings a rare mix of backend systems depth in compliance-sensitive money movement infrastructure and frontend platform experience building React design systems, with earlier experience at Meta on recommendation APIs and News Feed.”

Brian Paul

Screened

Junior Frontend Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and crypto products

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Frontend engineer with Coinbase experience building high-trust crypto product flows such as staking and asset wrapping, plus data-heavy verified pool visualizations. Stands out for scalable React/TypeScript architecture, clean data-transformation layers, and strong attention to maintainability, performance, and design-system consistency.”

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end ownership of Dell’s “Parts for Your Dell” multi-device shopping experience, using 30+ usability tests and A/B testing to drive a 28% conversion lift and 40% satisfaction increase. Experienced translating complex hardware compatibility logic into guided flows, building cross-viewport design systems, and collaborating closely with engineers on edge cases and component implementation; also prototyped gamified micro-interactions at upGrad and completed a GenZ-focused fintech capstone with PNC.”

“Marketing designer/creative lead who builds scalable Figma-based systems for high-volume growth and community creative. Led a Recurly campaign aligned to a brand refresh (including creative testing like light vs dark), and served as the sole designer for Grow Therapy’s inaugural “Grow Forward” summit producing a full suite of event assets plus modular community templates for ongoing programming.”

Shloka Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech full-stack development

San Francisco Bay Area, CA3y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience spanning early-stage startup work at Rundoo and a higher-trust fintech environment at Wealthfront. They’ve owned complex permission-based household/account experiences end-to-end in Next.js/React, with strong instincts around data flow, UI correctness, performance, and production pragmatism.”

“Built and shipped a production internal framework-adoption agent for design system leadership, using Temporal, Google ADK, and a Slack bot interface. They appear to be an early internal builder of agentic systems at their company, with practical experience in prompt/process design, lightweight orchestration, and reliability tradeoffs for real-world LLM workflows.”