Cristiano Rastelli
Design System Lead At HashiCorp (an IBM Company)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCristiano Rastelli is a design-system leader with 11+ years crafting scalable, multi-platform UI systems for consumer products, currently leading HashiCorp’s design system efforts within IBM after steering design systems at HashiCorp and Bumble. He combines deep front-end craftsmanship—especially Atomic Design, CSS architecture and style-guides—with hands-on engineering, having contributed front-end improvements to popular projects like Amazon’s style-dictionary. Cristiano has a strong track record building Cosmos, a multi-product design system used across Badoo and Bumble, and excels at aligning cross-functional teams (iOS, Android, web, design) to ship reusable components and automated token pipelines. A regular speaker, organizer and mentor in the tech community, he pairs practical performance and tooling optimizations with a long-standing passion for visual quality and developer experience. An early freelancer and former president of a meetup association, he brings both entrepreneurial initiative and institutional experience to system design and delivery.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Physics, Master's degree Physics at Università degli Studi di Trieste
Italian, English
Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
styled-components10
create-react-app10
react10
system-design9
build-system9
system9
build-tools8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
amzn/style-dictionary
Jul 2018 - Oct 2021
A build system for creating cross-platform styles.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Cristiano primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the project, focusing on improving the documentation, implementing a Create React App example, and enhancing the UI. They fixed cover height issues, added padding, and integrated styling using CSS and styled-components. The user also modified the build process for the CRA example, ensuring compatibility with the project's style dictionary.
stylestyleguidestylesdesign-toolsstyle-tokens
hashicorp/design-system
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Helios Design System
Contributions:2825 reviews, 2683 commits, 1139 PRs in 1 year 5 months
reactfeather-iconshelioshashicorpadobe-xd
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