Chris Nager
Design Technology Manager, Design Systems at Carta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolChris Nager is a Design Technology Manager specializing in design systems, performance, and accessibility with 14 years of experience building front-end platforms and teams from startups to enterprise at companies like Carta, Air, IEX, and Salesforce. Based in Brooklyn, he leads globally distributed teams to create and maintain universal design systems and has shipped consumer-facing products such as CartaX and Air’s media asset management app. He blends hands-on engineering—authoring projects like the lightweight ungrid responsive CSS grid—with product-minded design, branding, and developer experience improvements. Known for improving DX and cross-platform consistency, he pairs TypeScript/React expertise with a strong accessibility and performance focus. He often operates at the intersection of design, engineering, and marketing, having created brand identities, CMS-driven sites, and mobile apps. Outside of work he documents and shares his craft at chrisnager.com, signaling a continual practice of public-facing engineering and design.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts, Graphic Design at Samford University
English
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Github Skills (5)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
documentation9
javascript3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chrisnager/ungrid
Feb 2014 - Apr 2020
ungrid - the simplest responsive css grid
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:108 commits, 4 PRs, 21 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on building the front-end components and documentation for a CSS grid system. Their contributions included creating the `ungrid.css` file, which defines the grid's responsive behavior. They also developed the `index.html` and `docs.css` files, creating the project's demo and documentation. Further, they updated both the HTML and CSS to improve the user interface and documentation.
grid-systemcss-gridgrid-layoutcsssimplest
chrisnager/cursors
Oct 2014 - Apr 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 3 pushes in 5 years 7 months
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