Elise Hein
Senior UI Engineer at Plain
Tallinn, Harju County, Estonia
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Top SchoolElise Hein is a Senior UI Engineer with 15 years of experience designing and building accessible, high-performance front-end systems for web and mobile products. She blends a full-stack foundation with a human-centered design education (MSc HCI, UCL) to focus on interaction-level quality—accessibility, performance, and consistent language—across multi-theme design systems and product families. Elise has led design system work for API-first banking products and shipped cross-platform clinical and consumer apps, pairing pragmatic engineering with thoughtful pattern documentation. She enjoys supporting both designers and engineers by improving developer docs, simplifying prototyping, and publishing higher-level design guidelines. Based in Tallinn, she brings a rare mix of hands-on implementation (from iOS to modern web) and systemic thinking that helps teams scale delightful, inclusive components.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Tallinn English CollegeBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science with Business and Management, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science with Business and Management at The University of ManchesterUniversity College London
English, Estonian
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Github Skills (105)
storybook10
ui-components10
testing10
animated10
isolation10
julian10
javascript10
locale10
html10
angular10
typescript10
colors10
vue10
svelte10
documentation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Pezmc/Bernie
Feb 2011 - Mar 2011
Contributions:387 commits in 1 month
elisehein/Pageturner
Oct 2012 - Feb 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 1 push in 8 years 5 months
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