Alex Mejias
Head Of Global Design Technology And Interactive Experience at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Mejias is a Head of Global Design Technology and Interactive Experience at Amazon with 18 years at the intersection of design and engineering and 11 years of formal industry experience. He blends creative product leadership, design ops, and engineering to deliver accessible, high-performance experiences—from AR/VR prototyping to GenAI creative tools and bar-raising ad campaigns. A hands-on technologist who led HPE’s Experience Studio and helped steward the open-source Grommet UI library, he pairs front-end component work with system-level design systems and developer tooling. Alex is known for mentoring cross-functional teams and pioneering accessibility and developer-first practices in large organizations. Outside work he channels the same curiosity that had him building his first PC at 12 into exploring new tech research and performance driving with his three daughters as frequent co-adventurers.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Graphic and Interactive Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) Graphic and Interactive Design at Savannah College of Art and DesignEdmund Burke School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (15)
accessibility10
component-development10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
grommet10
react10
html6
visual-studio-code6
css6
nodejs6
react-virtualized6
laravel6
memoization6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
grommet/grommet
Apr 2016 - Sep 2018
a react-based framework that provides accessibility, modularity, responsiveness, and theming in a tidy package
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits, 49 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of Grommet's React-based UI components. Their work involved adding new features like progress indicators to the Article component and implementing a new Hotspot component. They also addressed bugs and refactored existing components, such as updating the Axis and Pulse components, and ensuring correct display in the Search input for Safari browsers.
babelreactmodularityjavascripta11y
karatechops/grommet-docs
Aug 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:75 pushes, 20 branches in 3 months
http-frameworkproject-websitejavascriptgrommet
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