Connor Mcsheffrey
Product Designer at Instagram
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Mcsheffrey is a Product Designer in New York with 13 years of experience designing consumer and developer-facing products across top tech companies. He’s shipped design work at Instagram, led Origami Studio design at Facebook, and driven growth and communications systems at Lyft and Credit Karma. His background spans hands-on front-end development to product design, giving him a strong craft sensibility for modular systems, landing pages, and design-led engineering workflows. Connor contributes to developer tooling and documentation—he improved React’s docs and experimented with live code examples—highlighting an interest in making complex interfaces easier to use. As a frequent contractor and in-house designer, he balances rapid prototyping with shipping production-ready components and design systems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic solutions that bridge brand, growth, and developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Business Management, Associate's degree, Business Management at Mesa Community College
Czech, English
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
website-development10
standard-library10
html10
c-library10
common-library10
website-design10
frontend10
react10
documentation10
ui-design9
declarative9
css8
gruntjs7
g7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/react
Sep 2013 - Nov 2013
The library for web and native user interfaces.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Connor primarily focused on modifying and generating documentation related to React tips and cookbook entries. They restructured documentation layouts and navigation, moving content into a new `/tips` structure and updating links. The user also worked on integrating live code examples within the documentation using ReactPlayground, though this feature was ultimately removed. These commits demonstrate a focus on improving the React documentation and user experience.
user-interfacereactjavascript-libraryjavascriptdeclarative
mcsheffrey/igember
Apr 2013 - Jul 2013
Contributions:35 commits in 2 months
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