Casey Hunt
Design Lead, Design Systems at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolCasey Hunt is a design systems leader with 13 years of hands-on experience bridging design and engineering, now leading Design Systems at Apple from Austin. He has a track record of architecting React-based systems, introducing design tokens, and driving migrations that cut maintenance overhead by up to 80% while improving designer and developer ergonomics. Casey couples technical leadership with people-first principles—mentorship, psychological safety, distributed decision-making, and inclusive collaboration form the core of his approach. He has led system builds and governance at companies ranging from Hudl and FireHydrant to Indeed and RetailMeNot, delivering measurable product and revenue impact. Notably, he has repeatedly combined design advocacy with developer-facing technical architecture to scale global, theme-ready systems. He brings a creative writing background and a pragmatic focus on humane workplace culture that boosts productivity as a byproduct.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA, English - Creative Writing, BA, English - Creative Writing at Western Michigan UniversityEmerge, Cohort 15, Emerge, Cohort 15 at Leadership Austin
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Github Skills (103)
chromatic10
modular9
react-component9
chakra-ui9
ui-components9
css-in-js9
component-library9
uikit9
lists9
development-tools9
react9
wai-aria9
swipe-gestures9
oocss8
chakra8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
firehydrant/design-system
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
FireHydrant flavored React component library, built using Chakra UI
Contributions:11 releases, 122 reviews, 130 PRs in 7 months
react-componentflavoredreactplayroomchakra-ui
caseymhunt/gifs
Jan 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
reactjsreactgifreaction
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