Defined and executed on a long-term direction for design systems at Instacart–with the following highlights from 2024 to 2025:

Grew the design system team's size and impact

* Established team KPIs and success measures

* Expanded the size of the team by 3.5x

* Expanded the footprint of the design system's business coverage by 4x

Spearheaded Instacart's first ever design technologist practice

* Hired Instacart's first three design technologist roles

* Established the company's design technologist role definition and its core competencies

Dramatically increased component availability and usage within products

* Moved the percentage of coded components available on all platforms from 11% to 47%

* Increased the monthly average Figma component inserts by 197%

* Increased the percentage of Figma component inserts fully available in code from 54% to 76%

Streamlined support systems to increase efficiency

* Increased monthly average page views of team documentation by 223%

* Increased monthly average unique views of team documentation by 265%

* Decreased volume of Slack support messages by 7%

Improved overall internal sentiment of the design system

* Moved design overall sentiment by ~44 points in the first six months

* Increases in mobile engineering sentiment by ~4 points to achieve over 96% overall favorability

It's a long story.

Transitioned back into people management while continuing to own the vision of strategic direction of Gestalt.

Owned the vision and strategy for the Gestalt design system; leading to signficant increases in adoption and customer sentiment.

Highlights:

• 32% increase in designer sentiment of Gestalt compared to 2022.

• 11% increase in total Gestalt component instances in the web codebase compared to 2022.

• 28% increase in higher-order Gestalt component instances in the web codebase compared to 2022.

• 92% increase in Gestalt docs pageviews from 2022 to 2023.