I build design systems
that engineers actually want
to use.

Hi, I'm James — a Senior Design Technologist at Intuit, seven years in the messy middle of design and code. Before Intuit, I owned Simpson Strong-Tie's internal component registry end to end — 20+ applications, 10+ teams, one maintainer — and led the cross-framework migration that got them there.

My career, in figures

Seven years of design-system and frontend-platform work. Here's what I shipped, owned, and moved.

7+
Years building for the frontend
From design intern to platform architect.
20+
Applications running my system
Inside Simpson Strong-Tie, across product teams.
10+
Teams onboarded
With POCs, docs, and minimum-disruption migration plans.
500ms
Cut from render time
Framework benchmarks that steered the architecture.

Selected work

Seven years of design systems, component libraries, marketing sites and personal experiments. Hover any row for a preview, open any row to read more.

Selected projects, with role, stack, year and type
#Project / roleStackYearType
01SST Web Component Design SystemUX Engineerlitweb componentsjavascripttypescript2023Design System
02Larsa Web Component Design SystemDesigner & Developerlitweb componentsjavascriptstorybook2025Personal
03strongtie.com MigrationUX Engineernext.jsreactjavascriptserver-side rendering2023Platform
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Work & education

The short version. The PDF has the long one.

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Employment

  • Senior Design Technologist
    Intuit
    October 2026 – present
  • UX Engineer
    Simpson Strong-Tie
    February 2023 – October 2026
  • Lead Frontend Developer
    müv
    April 2020 – February 2023
  • Interactive Designer Intern
    müv
    September 2019 – April 2020

Education & recognition

  • Bachelor of Fine Arts
    Maryville University
    May, 2020, Cum Laude

Always shipping

GitHub activity, last 12 months — public and private. Component libraries, this site, side experiments. It comes in concentrated bursts rather than a daily streak.

This band always runs in the opposite tone

897 Contributions in the last year

Oct 2025 — Oct 2026
Contributions by month, Oct 2025 to Oct 2026
MonthContributionsActive days
Oct 20257813
Nov 20256113
Dec 20252716
Jan 20265010
Feb 2026579
Mar 202612119
Apr 202614415
May 20264311
Jun 20266011
Jul 2026349
Aug 2026797
Sep 202612215
Oct 2026212
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