Emily Hiller
Staff Product Designer, Design Systems at Datadog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Hiller is a Staff Product Designer specializing in design systems with 13 years of experience building scalable, consistent UI at companies like GitHub, BuzzFeed, and now Datadog in New York. She has deep hands-on expertise implementing and documenting component libraries—contributing front-end code and Storybook integration to GitHub’s widely used Primer CSS design system. Emily moves fluidly between product design and engineering-facing systems, shaping both visual components and the infrastructure that makes them reusable across large teams. Known for stewarding design infrastructure and mentoring cross-functional teams, she combines practical UI development with product sensibility to reduce friction in product delivery. An experienced contributor to open-source design tooling, she brings a pragmatic focus on developer ergonomics as well as user-facing polish.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, BFA at University of the ArtsShawnee High School
Github Skills (12)
css10
system-design10
carbon-design-system10
sys10
storybook10
ui-components10
sass9
web-framework8
app-framework8
application-framework8
react8
javascript7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
primer/css
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Primer is GitHub's design system. This is the CSS implementation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:38 commits, 9 PRs, 32 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Emily primarily focused on developing and modifying UI components within the Primer CSS design system. Their work includes creating progress bar and tooltip elements, along with modifying existing button components. The user also integrated Storybook for component documentation, highlighting the user's focus on UI development and documentation within the project. They also seem to be contributing to merging branches.
primerreactsassprimer-csscss
emilybrick/bf-solid-kit
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 24 pushes in 8 months
scssbuzzfeedsolidset-up
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