Elle Kasai
Product Design Lead at IssueHunt
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolElle Kasai is a versatile software engineer and product designer with 13 years of experience building user-centered digital products and developer-friendly design systems across startups and education. With a rare blend of marketing, front-end development, and teaching experience, she consistently bridges design and engineering to deliver polished interfaces and maintainable UI components. She has led design strategy and shipped front-end work for open-source projects like Boost Note and created reusable design artifacts such as a resume generator and a company design system. Comfortable in small teams and cross-functional roles, Elle also brings hands-on localization and instructional experience, making her adept at translating user needs into scalable product solutions. Based in Matsuyama, Japan, she favors neat, minimal UI and a collaborative workflow that emphasizes continuous learning and measurable user impact.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BA Marketing, BA Marketing at Gakushuin Women's College
English, Japanese, Korean
Github Skills (17)
site-design10
css10
typescript10
styled-components10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
website-design10
react10
bootstrap9
electron9
jekyll9
bootstra9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ellekasai/resumecards
Dec 2014 - Oct 2017
[Unmaintained] A Markdown based resume generator. It looks great on mobile/desktop and can be saved as PDF.
Role in this project:
UI Designer
UI DesignerContributions:154 commits, 3 PRs, 149 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Elle primarily contributed to the visual design and layout of the resume generator. Their work involved modifying the HTML and CSS to include features such as a cover image, profile picture, and color themes. They also changed the position of elements and adjusted styles to improve the overall user interface. Furthermore, the user added and refined content within the cards, demonstrating a focus on presenting information in a clear and organized manner.
pdfgreatdesktopmarkdownresume-generator
BoostIO/BoostNote-App
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Boost Note is a document driven project management tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:364 commits, 78 PRs, 128 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Elle primarily worked on front-end components, specifically focusing on the "About Page" and other preferences modal screens. Their commits involved adding style functions, constants, and styling components with React and TypeScript. The contributions show a focus on UI development and component styling within the application's structure.
devops-teamdeveloper-toolsboostnotemanagement-toolvelocity
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