David Pett is a Lead UI Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and building high-performance, accessible interfaces and design systems for enterprise and consumer brands. He bridges design and engineering, having served as both designer and developer to streamline collaboration and create consistent, themeable component ecosystems across web and native platforms. His work includes leading teams and shipping design systems at Marriott, Hilton, Target, and Twitter, and founding a digital agency where performance and scalability were core principles. David is fluent in TypeScript, React/React Native, and modern front-end tooling, and he prioritizes accessibility and predictable UX patterns to improve adoption. Based in Minneapolis, he combines hands-on implementation with architecture-level decisions, often shaping developer guidelines and deployment processes that scale across organizations.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Graphic Design at Southern Utah University
Contributions:11 commits, 20 PRs, 71 pushes in 2 years 2 months
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David Pett - Lead UI Engineer at Marriott International