Anna Gonzales
Senior Product Designer, Design Systems at Netflix
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnna Gonzales is a Senior Product Designer specializing in design systems with 11 years of experience shaping cohesive, accessible UI at scale. Based in Austin, she led IBM’s Carbon Design System as Design Principal—contributing not only design leadership but hands-on front-end work like color tokenization, theme accessibility, and website updates that improved visual consistency across major themes. Now at Netflix, she applies system thinking to the Hawkins Professional Design System, bridging visual craft and implementation. Her background in graphic design and long tenure at IBM give her a rare blend of typographic and visual rigor plus practical engineering collaboration. Notably, she pairs strategic system direction with commit-level contributions to open-source Carbon repos, showing she’s comfortable shipping both design and code.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Graphic Design, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Graphic Design, Graphic Design at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (15)
carbon-lang10
javascript10
scs10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
carbon-copy10
gatsby10
react10
sc10
color-theory9
css9
html8
ibm-cloud8
ibm-db28
ui-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon-website
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
The website for the Carbon Design System.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:588 reviews, 129 commits, 202 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Anna's contributions primarily focused on updating the Carbon Design System website. Their work involved modifying color token definitions and their usage throughout the codebase. They also updated documentation, component styles (e.g., Prism.css), and implemented code examples, along with UI updates. These changes suggest a focus on improving the website's visual appearance and ensuring consistency with the Carbon Design System's design language.
gatsbyreactcarbon-design-systemibmdesign-system
carbon-design-system/carbon
Feb 2019 - Apr 2022
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:313 reviews, 14 commits, 17 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Anna primarily contributed to the Carbon Design System's theme files. Their work involved creating and modifying color tokens for different themes (v9, g10, g90, g100, and white), adding new color tokens, and updating existing values to improve visual consistency and contrast. The commits demonstrate a focus on adjusting interactive and disabled states, and also include refactoring for better theme alignment. The changes directly impact the system's visual appearance and accessibility.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
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