About Me

Design Systems

• Part of the team that started Klaviyo's design system.
• Designed and built several components from the ground up.
• Supported other teams in the use of the design system.

AI

• Centralized Klaviyo's design system documentation, optimizing it for MCP access and easy AI-powered updates.
• Explored avenues for code generation for Figma such as Code Connect and creating an early Figma MCP.
• Created org-wide skills for things such as reproducing screens in high-fidelity and doing visual verification of changes.
• Created and maintained Klaviyo's design system in Claude Design.

Tooling

• Created several Figma plugins, including one that centralized Klaviyo's design system components and extended basic Figma components.
• Created Figma-based automations such as to sync icons between Figma and the codebase, or to provide a status of the libraries in Figma.

Design

• Led the collaboration with McGraw Hill to redesign Proctorio's settings as part of the integration into the Connect platform.
• Redesigned the settings UI.
• Led the redesign of the company's branding, including a complete redesign of its website.
• Designed an iPhone app for test taking.

Research

• Planned and Conducted interview calls with client or partner institutions.
• Began structuring the company's research capabilities.

Development

• Built internal tools to improve collaboration between teams as well as my own team's efficiency
• Provided training for our internal front-end framework to software engineers.

Leadership

• Lead a multidisciplinary team of six designers & front-end devs.
• Led the hiring process for my team.

Design

• Built a design system from the ground up, including a component library in Figma as well as front-end components.
• Redesigned the test taker experience to build trust and decrease anxiety.
• Designed the company's originality verification UI.

Research

• Performed a UI inventory and heuristic analysis of the company's UIs.

Development

• Developed a front-end framework based on Web Components and documented it through Storybook.
• Worked with Deque Systems to correct accessibility issues.

Design

• Designed web applications in Figma to be used in different research projects.

Research

• Designed and facilitated in-person and remote interviews, co-creation workshops, and usability tests.
• Designed and implemented several large-scale, unmoderated studies in Amazon’s MTurk and Prolific
• Designed, conducted, and analyzed multiple experimental studies.
• Conducted remote interview studies with open-source project contributors.
• Published and presented papers at top-tier HCI venues.

Development

• Developed web applications to be used in research projects.
• Implemented a robot that moved autonomously on a cartesian plane projected on the floor.

Leadership

• Managed undergrad and masters students working on research projects.