Ayesha Mazrana
Senior Design Technologist at Design Tokens W3C Community Group
Seattle, Washington, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAyesha Mazrana is a Senior Design Technologist with 11 years of experience building accessible, design-driven front-end systems for companies like Grammarly, Pinterest, Optimizely, and Salesforce. She specializes in design systems, accessibility, and component libraries, contributing to well-known open-source UI work such as Pinterest’s Gestalt where she improved accessibility, documentation, and typography. Based in Seattle with ties to Germany, she blends hands-on engineering and design empathy to prototype features, evolve standards, and scale component libraries across large products. As a W3C Design Tokens community editor and frequent collaborator with cross-functional teams, she brings both technical rigor and a community-oriented approach to design tooling. Ayesha also has a long-standing interest in mentoring and education, stemming from early work teaching CS to young students and running developer workshops for large audiences.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (10)
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uid10
carbon-design-system10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
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system-design10
react10
javascript9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/gestalt
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:777 reviews, 230 commits, 447 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ayesha contributed to the development of React UI components, specifically focusing on improving the usability and accessibility of the components. They added documentation, implemented a read-only mode, and updated examples to highlight new features. Their work included a significant refactor of typography sizes and contributions to the design system through the implementation of both major and minor visual changes.
reactlanguage-designjavascriptreact-ui-componentspinterest
ayeshakmaz/gestalt
Sep 2020 - Jul 2023
A set of React UI components that supports Pinterest’s design language
Contributions:651 pushes, 389 branches in 2 years 10 months
reactlanguage-designreact-ui-componentspinterestdesign-system
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