# Joseph Le

> Engineering Manager @ Persona

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/josephle1

I started off as a design engineer building design systems but really I’m just a builder obsessively focused on crafting incredible product experiences.

Currently leading (and growing 👀) the Platform Experience team at Persona

## Work Experience
### Engineering Manager, Platform Experience @ Persona
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Platform UI, design systems, testing infrastructure, frontend leadership, AI tooling

### Design Engineer @ Persona
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Engineering owner of the Persona Design System
- Architecting and scaling the dashboard UI platform
- Frontend build and deployment pipelines (Vite)
- UI testing and automated QA

### Design Technologist @ Workday
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Pleasanton, California
Bridging the gap between design and development by empowering designers and researchers with systems and tools.
- Founding developer of Workday Canvas Design System. Contributed to CSS kit and React component library.
- Architected asset delivery pipeline for exporting, optimizing, and publishing icons to internal (Artifactory, Maven) and external (npm) destinations for iOS, Android, and web clients.
- Built font pipeline and delivery network to subset characters for international languages, enabling Workday to serve a global audience and unlock revenue.
- Managed several infrastructure as code stacks for AWS using the Serverless Framework.
- Built an in-house research tooling suite consisting of 3 full stack (AWS AppSync, AWS RDS, React, ElasticSearch) applications: participant database, video analysis (transcription and timeline highlighting), study library (searching).
- Created custom Figma plugins to fit niche designer needs

### Researcher @ UCSD Protolab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | La Jolla, CA

### Product Design Intern @ Workday
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pleasanton, CA
Designed interaction, wireframes, and mockups of core product components using Sketch. Created web and mobile prototypes and animations using Framer and Invision. Collaborated on cross-disciplinary teams with developers and product managers. Developed internal tools and applications using Node.js and Electron.

### Co-Founder @ Scouter
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | La Jolla, CA
Developed minimum viable product web interface in HTML/SASS/React/PHP. 
Conducted user interviews and observation of career fair interaction.
Tested and scaled product to 2000+ users consisting of students and university recruiters.

### Software Engineering Intern @ CBS Interactive
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California
Maintained Symfony2 PHP, JavaScript and SASS codebase serving thousands of daily active users. Refactored Node.js spam detection software to reduce server loads. Improved malicious traffic detection using Redis and memcached. Participated in regular sprints and release cycles.

### Co-Founder @ StudentHero
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Jose, CA
Performed user/market research and designed + built MVP using PHP, Laravel, and Bootstrap.

### Web Developer @ Swipe Development Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | san diego, california
Consulted about backend implementations for clients’ applications.
Collaborated with team members to quickly build application features.
Built and modified PHP and JavaScript web features for internal and client applications.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Achieve Internet: Building Innovative Open Source Digital Infrastructures
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater San Diego Area
Developed custom Drupal 7 modules and solutions.
Collaborated with a team of 3 to complete various projects and client requests.
Designed and modified Drupal themes with SASS.
Troubleshooted many internal software issues as well as clients' issues.

### System Administrator @ Serverminds
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Installed and optimize OpenVZ virtualization software.
Maintained Debian-based servers and server intranet.
Worked in collaboration with other system admins to ensure proper network operation.
Assisted customers with troubleshooting virtual servers.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Cognitive Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/josephnqle
- Portfolio: http://josephle.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-13