Diana Mounter
VP Of Design at AlphaSense
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarDiana Mounter is a seasoned design executive with 15 years of experience building design systems and leading cross-functional teams at scale, most recently serving as VP of Design at AlphaSense after a prolific tenure as Head of Design at GitHub. She specializes in design infrastructure, design operations, and product design, having shaped GitHub’s Primer design system and contributed front-end Storybook and React components used across the platform. Based in New York, Diana blends hands-on engineering fluency with strategic leadership, empowering teams of designers, researchers, and design engineers to deliver user-centric experiences for millions of developers. Her career arc—from early UX roles to directing global design programs—reflects a rare mix of technical craftsmanship, operational rigor, and people-first mentorship.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
storybook10
ui-components10
css10
styled-components10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
system10
component-library10
sys10
react10
sass9
html8
github-repos8
flexbox8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
primer/css
Jan 2017 - Mar 2019
Primer is GitHub's design system. This is the CSS implementation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 1 review, 338 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Diana primarily contributed to the Storybook setup for the Primer CSS design system. They integrated the Primer CSS library and added stories for various UI components, including buttons, typography, flash alerts, avatars, blankslates, box components, breadcrumbs and forms. The user also configured the Storybook environment, including webpack and Sass compilation, and refactored the navigation labels for clarity.
primerreactsassprimer-csscss
primer/react
Feb 2018 - Dec 2018
An implementation of GitHub's Primer Design System using React
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:93 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Diana primarily focused on building and implementing UI components for the Primer Design System using React. Their contributions include the creation of a basic theme file, as well as the implementation of core components like Page, Meta, CSS, Box, Heading, Text, Link, Button, Flex, Flash and UtilityBox. Moreover, they integrated the Compositor Kit for displaying the component library and added examples to demonstrate their usage and functionality within the Primer React framework.
primerreactprimer-designdesign-systemcomponent-library
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