Brandon Templar
Senior Manager, Product Design. Design Systems at Smartsheet
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Templar is a senior product design leader based in Washington, D.C., with a 15-year track record building and scaling design systems and shipping production-ready components across startups and enterprise teams. Currently leading Design Systems at Smartsheet after senior roles at Twilio and The Washington Post, he combines hands-on full-stack design and development with strategic team leadership. He runs his own consultancy, Brandon Templar Design, where he helps non-technical clients adopt CMS-driven workflows and provides training—evidence of a practical, user-focused approach to tooling and handoff. Known for iterating rapidly with data and qualitative research, he has deep experience refactoring CSS, enforcing brand standards, and improving developer-designer collaboration. Brandon’s background as a portrait photographer and print designer gives him an uncommon sensitivity to visual craft and storytelling within digital products.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Art; Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts Art; Graphic Design at University of Lynchburg
Github Skills (7)
checkout3
sdk2
unleash2
typescript2
javascript2
css1
fusion1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BHUNTERco/Gulp-Starter
Nov 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
brannytempy/brannytempy.github.io
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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