San Francisco. Available for projects

Design
Engineer.

I work at the intersection of design and engineering, building interfaces that feel inevitable. Currently helping teams ship production-quality UI at Studio.

Open to new work
Based in SF / Remote
6 years experience

Selected Work

Meridian Design System

2024

A complete token-based system for a 40-engineer product team. Built in Figma, implemented in React.

Design Systems

Arc Browser Onboarding

2024

Redesigned the onboarding flow, reducing time-to-value from 8 minutes to 90 seconds.

Product Design

Luma Event Platform

2023

Built the attendee-facing product, including animations, transitions, and a custom calendar component.

Frontend Engineering

Raycast Extensions

2023

A suite of productivity extensions used by 12,000+ developers daily.

Developer Tools

About

I spent the first years of my career on the design side, obsessing over type, spacing, and interaction. Then I learned to code and never looked back.

Now I sit in the gap between design and engineering, which is where most of the interesting problems live. I care about performance, accessibility, and the invisible details that make products feel right.

Previously at Vercel, Linear, and Luma. Building in public at @elenarivera.

Skills

Design SystemsMotion DesignReact / Next.jsTypeScriptFigmaFramerCSS / TailwindProduct Thinking

Writing

The case against card-based layouts

6 min readMar 2025

How I think about animation timing

4 min readJan 2025

Optical alignment vs grid alignment

5 min readNov 2024
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