• Led the systemic rollout of Dark Mode across multiple Atlassian products including Jira, Confluence, Trello, Atlas, and Bitbucket. This fulfilled the #1 customer-requested feature for Jira and #3 for Confluence.

• Conceptualized, defined, and delivered Atlassian Design System’s first version of a custom theming solution, which paves the way for customers to apply their own branding across all Atlassian products.

• Collaborated cross-functionally with engineers, designers, managers, and PgMs to define strategies, release plans, scope, and sequencing for key design system capabilities such as color and icon. These efforts created the necessary clarity in ambiguous situations.

• Co-led quarterly and sprint planning with the engineering lead for a team of 12 (including 4 designers).

• Prioritized tasks, managed workload, and tracked progress to ensure continuous alignment with strategic goals and timely delivery.

• Mentored and guided designers across Atlassian teams on strategically leveraging and adopting the Atlassian Design System. This fostered best practices and ensured consistent implementation of design standards across products.

• Revamped the Atlassian Design System’s color and elevation system to enable dark mode, enhance accessibility, and improve overall usability. The new color system achieved widespread adoption across Atlassian products, many exceeding 95% adoption.

• Wrote and published the first token documentation onto atlassian.design, empowering teams to self-serve information and accelerate migration to tokens.

• Co-developed the Atlassian Design System's values and principles, which has been used to guide and align decisions across the team.

• Managed and maintained Figma libraries so that Atlassian designers can create more consistently and efficiently.

23andMe is a consumer genetics and research company focused on helping people access, understand, and benefit from the human genome. Millions of customers worldwide have made discoveries about their ancestry and health through 23andMe’s 150+ personalized DNA reports.

• Led the design for growth initiatives such as funnel improvements, kit upgrades, and subscriptions

• Shipped significant, company-wide initiatives under tight time-frames, including launching a new subscription service. Delegated work when necessary to ensure all tasks were completed on time

• Led 23andMe’s design system design efforts and evangelized benefits to leadership and teams to gain buy-in and adoption. Coordinated with designers and developers across web, iOS, and Android to identify opportunities for improvements, create new styles and components, document changes, and update Figma libraries

• Participated in company-wide push to make the products and design system accessible. Delivered visual accessibility improvements for links, buttons, and form components

• Researched, planned, and migrated design system components and styles over from Sketch to Figma. Supported and trained various team members including developers on how to use Figma

• Partnered with product managers, designers, content strategists, developers, and marketing to brainstorm, get feedback, give feedback, and ensured new products, features, or fixes are user-centered, pixel-perfect, and on track to launch

• Navigated complexities around different platforms (desktop, iOS, Android, email, print) and medical regulations

Udacity's mission is to democratize education through the offering of higher education opportunities that are accessible, flexible, and economical. Virtually anyone on the planet with an internet connection and a commitment to self-empowerment through learning can come to Udacity, master a suite of job-ready skills, and pursue rewarding employment.

• Designed and shipped multiple consumer-facing products and admin tools from idea to launch, which formed the student help and community ecosystem. Students with access to Student Hub (Udacity’s student and mentor chat platform) were able to complete projects 20% faster

• Partnered closely with cross-functional team members such as designers, researchers, product managers, and developers at all stages of the process to brainstorm, research, collaborate, exchange feedback, and ship products. Advocated for products that were user-centered, on schedule, scalable, on brand, and high quality

• Defined, designed, and documented new UI components for Udacity’s design system with design system engineers and designers

• Crafted products and features for desktop, mobile web, iOS, and Android to ensure products were accessible to all students

• Refreshed legacy pages on website to reflect 2016 rebrand

• Designed landing pages and marketing campaigns that announced Nanodegree launches, product launches, special promotions, scholarship competitions