Amy Lam
Engineering Manager, Design Systems at Leopard.FYI
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmy Lam is a Design Engineer and engineering manager with 12+ years building front-end platforms, design systems, and accessible UX/DX across companies like HashiCorp, Fastly, and Adobe. She blends product-minded engineering with visual design sensibilities, often acting as a player-coach to scale component libraries and frontend infrastructure. Her open-source contributions include accessibility and developer-experience improvements to high-profile projects such as Docusaurus and Create React App, and UI work for HashiCorp’s Waypoint. Trained as a mechanical and industrial systems engineer (MIT BS, USC MS), she brings a systems-thinking approach to UI problems and cross-functional collaboration. Based in Salt Lake City, she pairs pragmatic technical leadership with a hands-on focus on developer tooling and documentation. Outside of work she recharges by gardening and skiing, reflecting a detail-oriented but adventurous temperament.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (22)
accessibility10
zero-configuration10
javascript10
css10
ui-design10
uid10
emberjs10
front-end-development10
ember10
html10
build-tools10
react10
documentation10
uitest9
ui-testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ember-learn/ember-website
Feb 2019 - Nov 2021
The emberjs.com website.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 42 commits, 77 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily contributed to the front-end of the Ember website. Their work involved updating templates, including removing outdated content and making modifications to the display of information. Specific tasks included making Twitter information optional on the team member page and adjusting the display of beta releases. They also made copy fixes and updated the index page.
emberjsember-addonember
hashicorp/waypoint
Jul 2021 - Dec 2022
A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 99 commits, 92 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Amy primarily contributed to the user interface aspects of the Waypoint project. They implemented and swapped UI components using the HashiCorp Design System (HDS), improving the visual consistency and user experience. They also added and modified Percy tests to capture UI snapshots, and removed Percy entirely in a later commit. Their work focused on Ember.js framework and integrating design system components.
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