Brian Alfaro
Principle Designer (Design Systems) at Thought To Life
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Alfaro is a seasoned design systems leader with over 15 years of multidisciplinary experience blending UX, visual design, accessibility, and front-end engineering. He has driven foundational pattern libraries and design operations at The Washington Post and now leads design systems work at Yahoo, translating strategic vision into reusable UI components, documentation, and tooling. Formally trained in architecture, Brian brings an architect’s rigor to product design—managing complex projects end-to-end and aligning stakeholders across product, engineering, and creative teams. As founder and Creative Director of Thought To Life, he directs a small team while shipping full-stack web and mobile products using Node, React, and modern front-end practices. He’s equally comfortable mentoring designers as he is writing production code, with a consistent focus on web accessibility and practical design operations. Known for pairing visual craft with technical fluency, Brian excels at turning brand and UX requirements into scalable systems that accelerate product delivery.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Architecture, Bachelor of Science, Architecture at Thomas Jefferson UniversityAssociate's degree, Architectural Technology/Technician, Associate's degree, Architectural Technology/Technician at Montgomery College
Github Skills (16)
static-site9
react8
animation8
zeplin8
radix-ui7
slp7
css7
wordpress7
svg7
figma6
javascript6
canvas5
draggable4
javascript-animation4
game-engine3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
washingtonpost/wpds-v0-docs
Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
Static site to host our v0 documentation around our design system.
Contributions:4 reviews, 203 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 7 months
static-sitewpds
washingtonpost/wpds-plugins
Sep 2021 - May 2022
WPDS Design Tools and Plugins for Figma, Zeplin, and more!
Contributions:60 commits, 3 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
figmazeplinwpds
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