# Bernhard Schmidt

> Design Engineer / Design Technologist

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bernhard

I am a UI / UX Engineer specialized in front-end development and design systems. I thrive in an agile environment where I can collaborate with others on both design and development. I have worked with early stage startups as well as larger established companies.

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff UI / UX Engineer @ Lightmatter
Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Graphical User Interfaces 🌈

### Senior Design Engineer, Spectrum Design System @ Adobe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco / Denver
• Lead engineer managing 50+ automated UI-kits / sticker sheets for our Spectrum SVG system, Spectrums first code-based implementations to automate and scale our UI components, providing Adobe’s most comprehensive UI collection in variants, scale, themes and systems. 

  • Codebase is implemented in the XD and Figma plugin, crucial to enable hundreds of designers at Adobe to craft pixel perfect layouts with real-world components. 

  • Extensively tested new color palettes across all of Spectrum’s themes with the help of my implemented visual regression tool in the SVG-Generator project. 

• Worked closely together with our Spectrum designers in developing and testing our new UI components, went through countless design iterations and improvements.

• Contributed accessible and scalable front-end code to various component implementations and migrations in Spectrum-CSS, powering the visual appearance for Adobe’s popular open-source libraries Spectrum React and Spectrum Web Components.

### Senior Web Engineer @ Adobe
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco
• Built, maintained the Spectrum Icons page, the most visited feature page on our design system website, enabling thousands of designers to search and place our icons from our icon system.
 
• Implemented and iterated second most visited feature page: Color Palette, allowing for a code based representation of Spectrums color system, enabling our designers and engineers to quickly gain access to our up-to-date palettes.

### Staff UI / UX Engineer at AppDirect @ AppDirect
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Built, maintained, and evangelized AppDirect’s design system and component library base2.appdirect.com.
• Created hundreds of prototypes to assist in user research and stakeholder engagement, using low- to high-fidelity techniques and mobile solutions.
• Developed design tools and processes to empower product, design and engineering teams.
• Advised front-end engineers on UI implementation best practices.
• Contributed scalable front-end code to production codebases.

### Senior UI Engineer @ AppDirect
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Front End Engineer @ Luvocracy (acquired by Walmart Labs)
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Grew a social ecommerce site from hundred to hundreds of thousand of users by rapidly implementing various front-end solutions. 
• Launched a responsive framework to ensure mobile-web access with timesaving reusable components. 
• Developed an internal CMS with multiple data analytics tools for marketing outreach.
• Contributions lead to repeat investments from Kleiner Perkins and Google Ventures.

### Front End Engineer @ FontShop (acquired by Monotype)
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco / Berlin
• Developed front-end solutions around professional typography, web development, iOS app development and data analytics solutions for an online shopping and contribution system that resulted in increased sales. 
• Established the foundations for web and app fonts that changed an entire industry’s use of typography in mobile apps and typography licensing in web development.

### Front End Engineering Intern @ Wikia
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Contributed to a visual and technical redesign of the Wiki-platform "Oasis" with challenging front-end issues.
• Launched a highly scalable wiki-platform that lead to Wikia becoming one of the top US websites.

### Web Developer, Web Designer @ Big Tent Design, Inc. (acquired by Federated Media)
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Developed and designed front-end solutions for an online platform for offline community groups. 
• Implemented major redesigns, executed complex UI/ UX projects, and managed Big Tent’s public page.

### IT-Technician, Web Developer @ Computer Service Fiedler
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
•  Designed multiple projects in the web and print area and improved hard-and software management. • •  Represented the computer service in customer relations and sales management.

### Camp Counselor @ iD Tech Camps
Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 | Stanford University
Taught web design techniques and basics in Flash animation as a camp instructor at Stanford.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering in Media Technology - Digital Media
Hochschule Mittweida

### German Abitur in German and History, Computer Science
Europäisches Gymnasium Waldenburg


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/schmidtbernhard
- Portfolio: http://www.bernhard-schmidt.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-31