David Menendez
Advisory Software Engineer at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Menendez is an Advisory Software Engineer with 11 years of front-end and full-stack experience, currently leading Carbon design work and Cloud Pak UI at IBM in Austin. He specializes in React, Node, SCSS, and building complex single-page applications for cloud and Kubernetes provisioning, analytics, and autoscaling experiences. As a core contributor to IBM’s widely used open-source Carbon Design System, he’s enhanced UI components like modals, buttons, and copy interactions to improve developer and user ergonomics. David combines hands-on implementation with technical leadership—driving product flows, instrumentation, and community growth such as expanding IBM Cloud’s public Slack from hundreds to thousands of active users. His background spans agency and enterprise roles, giving him a sharpened sense for user-focused design and pragmatic engineering. He often bridges design systems and telemetry to turn usage data into measurable UX improvements.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology at Florida State UniversityFlorida Gulf Coast University
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Github Skills (8)
javascript10
scs10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
sys10
react10
sc10
testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
carbon-design-system/carbon
Feb 2018 - Apr 2018
A design system built by IBM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 4 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:David contributed primarily to the UI components and styles within the Carbon Design System. They focused on adding and modifying modal and button components, including the implementation of "danger" flavors. Furthermore, the user made changes to the CodeSnippet component by adding functionality to support for CopyButton props. These modifications indicate a focus on enhancing the visual and functional aspects of the design system's UI elements.
reactjavascriptdesign-systemibmdesign-systems
davidmenendez/causeunknown
May 2020 - Oct 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
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