Grant Blakeman
Staff Design Engineer at LinkedIn
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Blakeman is a Principal Design Engineer with 13 years of experience blending product design, frontend and backend engineering to create polished web experiences for startups and large enterprises. He leads cross-disciplinary efforts at LinkedIn building design systems and internal tooling that improve designer-engineer collaboration, prototype-to-production workflows, and AI-assisted product design. Trained in business and grounded in brand storytelling from an advertising background, he brings a big-picture, user-centered lens to technical problems. He has a track record of shipping practical engineering solutions—like on-demand media servers and privacy-aware Figma tooling—that cut costs and raised quality bars. Comfortable as an individual contributor or leader, he thrives at the intersection of craft, tooling, and workflow improvement.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Marketing, Bachelor's degree, Marketing at University of Colorado Boulder - Leeds School of BusinessMarketing/Marketing Management, General, Marketing/Marketing Management, General at Boston University Questrom School of Business
Github Skills (115)
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microsoft-translator-api10
ruby-on-rails10
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ruby9
omniauth9
wordpress-plugin9
react9
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typescript9
rails9
progressive-web-apps9
sketch-app9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
linkedinlabs/ds-figma-plugins
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Design Systems Productivity: Figma Tools
Contributions:21 releases, 119 reviews, 576 commits in 2 years 9 months
productivitysveltefigmaplugindesign-system
linkedinlabs/realish-figma
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Realish: A Figma plugin that makes it easy to create cohesive and consistent stories across your designs.
Contributions:35 releases, 110 reviews, 1568 commits in 3 years 2 months
randomizerfigma-pluginssveltecohesivefigma
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