Adam Tirella
Senior UI Engineer, Calcite Design System at Esri
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Tirella is a Senior UI Engineer and interactive designer with 11 years of experience building cohesive, production-grade design systems and developer-facing component libraries. At Esri he designs, implements, and evangelizes the Calcite Design System—authoring web components, patterns, documentation, and purpose-built tools like Icon Search—while presenting the work at conferences. He combines hands-on front-end development (StencilJS, Lit, TypeScript, React, Gatsby) with product research and Figma-led design to translate complex requirements into consistent, reusable UI solutions. His background spans startups and product teams where he established composable UI standards for marketing sites, dashboards, and onboarding flows, and he brings a geography-and-policy-informed perspective from his University of Oregon studies to user-centered design.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Geography + Planning Public Policy and Management, Bachelor of Science (BS) Geography + Planning Public Policy and Management at University of Oregon
English
Github Skills (96)
component-library10
modular10
arcgis10
arcgis-online10
front-end-development10
monorepo10
gatsby10
typescript10
esri10
gatsbyjs10
accessibility10
css10
web-components10
graphql10
react10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
macandcheese/calcite-components
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
Web Components for the Calcite Design System. Built with Stencil JS.
Contributions:583 pushes, 379 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 4 months
web-componentsstencil-jswebcomponentsstencildesign-system
macandcheese/calcite-web
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Authoritative front-end development resources for Calcite design initiative. Includes extendable base components and styles, as well as a modular and efficient framework for ArcGIS properties.
Contributions:156 pushes, 95 branches in 1 year 5 months
arcgisfront-endcalcitebase-componentscss
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