Seismic Software
Senior Software Engineer - Front-End Architecture (Design Systems)
Apr. 2021 - Aug. 2026
- Drove adoption and evolution of a React design system serving ~400 engineers across 25 product teams, spanning 45+ components, design tokens, and complex UI systems including a data grid and rich text editor; provided architecture guidance and hands-on migration support for legacy applications.
- Led WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility efforts across the design system and consuming products, triaging findings from an independent third-party audit, partnering with engineering teams on remediation, and incorporating systemic fixes into shared components and APIs.
- Developed AI-ready design-system infrastructure using structured documentation, component metadata, examples, usage constraints, and linting/validation to help internal AI tooling select approved components and generate implementations aligned with established patterns.
- Reduced design-system build time by ~30% through parallelized CI jobs and caching; also improved package and runtime performance through dependency cleanup, package-size optimization, code splitting, and React rendering improvements.
- Built accessibility coverage tooling deployed across 100+ front-end repositories through an internal composite GitHub Action, using heuristic analysis of Evinced accessibility tests to establish an organization-wide a11y testing baseline and support VPAT/ACR readiness.
- Partnered with ~20 product designers to evolve the design language and component system, helping identify appropriate components for product experiences, define new reusable patterns, and adapt existing components as UX requirements changed.