# Gilmar Lira

> Design at Imprint

Location: Walnut Creek, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gilmar

## Work Experience
### Staff Product Designer @ Imprint
Jan 2025 – Present

### Lead Design Technologist @ Carta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Create cohesion and scalability by defining & implementing design patterns (React, TS)
• Ship next generation React UI components (React, styled-components, Sass, and CSS3)
• Evolve the design system through visual (rebranded), functional, and structural revamps

### Design Technology Manager @ Carta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Led the design system team of up to 8 Design Technologists and Frontend Engineers
• Decided the system’s roadmap and shipped components for forms, tables, and layout
• Drove system usage from 0 to ~93K React component instances in production

### Senior Product Designer @ Carta
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Idealized, built, and launched the ink design system, component library, and ink.carta.com portal
• Built Carta.com for the Carta rebrand launch away from eShares (HTML, Sass, JS)
• Scaled Sass/CSS codebase by restructuring & refactoring it with BEM methodology

### Product Designer @ Carta
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Reimagined main navigation and shipped production version in HTML, Sass, & JS
• Designed an MVP iOS app for startup employees to accept, track, & manage equity 
• Shipped UI/UX updates to core Carta products used by startups, law firms, & investment funds

### Visual Interface Design Intern @ Apple
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Cupertino, California
• Coded web templates for WWDC content for the developer.apple.com portal

### Visual Interface Design Intern @ Apple
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cupertino, California
• Produced the World Wide Developer Relations portal and Swift Blog (HTML, CSS)

### Apple Shop Specialist @ Apple
Jan 2008 – Jan 2011
• Managed the installation of branded Apple product areas within large retailers


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design
Academy of Art University

### Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Graphic Design
Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo

### Visual Communication in Design and Visual Communications, General
Panamericana . Escola de Arte e Design

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Physics
USP - Universidade de São Paulo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gilmar-lira
- Portfolio: http://www.lira.is

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Source: https://flows.cv/gilmar
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/gilmar/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-13