Summary
Adam Sivins is a senior design engineer and full-stack developer with two decades of experience building scalable, production web applications and design systems. He has run his own studio since 2004 while leading major design-engineering efforts at Microsoft, Cisco ThousandEyes, Verizon, and the Michigan Gaming Control Board, blending hands-on front-end engineering with design tooling and platform architecture. Adam’s work spans component libraries, Figma plugins, accessibility improvements, and real-time telemetry dashboards, regularly delivering measurable UI consistency and developer productivity gains. He is known for bridging design and engineering—shipping reusable components, CI/CD pipelines, and tooling that reduced visual inconsistencies and build times by substantial margins. Based in Grand Rapids, he brings a rare combination of boutique agency agility and enterprise-grade system design, with a background in multimedia visual communications informing his pragmatic, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience