Cristina Silva
Lead UX Engineer at Proof
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCristina Silva is a Lead UX Engineer in Boston with 11 years designing and building front-end experiences that bridge product strategy and production code. She has advanced from hands-on design and CSS work to leading UX engineering at Proof, shaping design systems and shipping user-tested interfaces in React and TypeScript. Her background spans startups, agency work, and in-house roles at GitHub and Teal, giving her fluency in product discovery, usability research, and front-end implementation. Cristina routinely mentors designers and engineers, runs design sprints, and turns qualitative user feedback into measurable interface improvements. Known for her practical craftsmanship—summed up on GitHub as "from slingin' pizza to slingin' css"—she pairs a maker’s humility with a knack for scalable UI patterns. She also teaches and has led student creative studios, reflecting a commitment to mentoring the next generation of designers and developers.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Northeastern UniversityFordham University
Github Skills (37)
product-design10
sprint10
agile10
ux-design9
devrel9
agile-development9
neat9
product-management8
rails8
ruby8
admin8
get-started7
accessibility7
ruby-on-rails7
bourbon7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ohaicristina/learning-react
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:33 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
ohaicristina/cristinasilvadotco_2017
Jul 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:92 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
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