Brooke Yalof
Founding Design Engineer at Rillet
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrooke Yalof is a founding design engineer and full-stack interactive developer with nine years of experience blending front-end engineering, UX/UI design, and human-centered product thinking. She’s led design systems and UX foundations teams at MongoDB and built dashboard experiences at Stripe, demonstrating an ability to scale design and engineering practices across large product orgs. Now founding Rillet, she pairs hands-on coding with client-facing project management, branding, and digital marketing skills that help translate strategy into polished, usable products. Brooke’s background in journalism and intensive web development training gives her a rare combination of clear communication, empathy-driven design, and technical fluency. Colleagues describe her as a builder who bridges design and engineering while mentoring teams to ship consistent, accessible interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at The Spence SchoolTel Aviv UniversityFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Flatiron SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Journalism, Bachelor’s Degree, Journalism at Northwestern University
Github Skills (13)
emotion10
react-ui-kit10
mongodb10
react10
flatiron9
versioning8
sketch7
xmlhttprequest6
ajax5
fetch4
axios4
javascript2
http-client1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bruugey/design
May 2024 - May 2024
Skunkworks hub for .design refresh
Contributions:39 reviews, 3 PRs, 81 pushes in 10 days
mongodb/leafygreen-ui
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
LeafyGreen UI – LeafyGreen's React UI Kit
Contributions:1 release, 2342 reviews, 752 commits in 3 years 11 months
react-ui-kitui-kitdesign-systemreactemotion
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