Brian Hinton
Accessibilty Lead at Friends of Figma, San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Hinton is an accessibility and design systems leader with 11+ years of experience building teams, tooling, and patterns that make digital products usable and inclusive. Currently leading accessibility at Superhuman and Grammarly while also stewarding the Figma community in San Francisco, he blends hands-on design craft with cross-functional program building. He has a track record of founding accessibility and internal tools teams, hiring and mentoring designers and developers, and operationalizing audits and workflows across large product portfolios. A Figma Community Advocate and former Product Design Manager, he pairs practical implementation (including custom React SVG libraries and CSS frameworks) with a talent for coordinating stakeholders across distributed organizations. Outside of work he’s an avid nature hiker and connector in the Tampa Bay and Bay Area design communities.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree Graphic Design, Associate’s Degree Graphic Design at State College of Florida-Manatee-Sarasota
Github Skills (89)
bash10
macos10
linux9
browser9
linux-distribution9
rethinkdb9
server9
termux9
invoice-template8
react-redux8
homebrew8
android8
static-site-generator8
styled-components7
electron-react7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
briannhinton/personal-site
Feb 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 3 months
briannhinton/data-sources
Dec 2017 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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