Jaclyn Sproat is a design-system-focused engineering manager with nine years of experience leading front-end teams and shipping polished, user-facing products across insurance, rental, and SaaS domains. Currently managing Design System Engineering at Workday, she blends hands-on React/TypeScript expertise with people leadership—coaching direct reports, establishing agile practices, and scaling shared component libraries. Her background includes creating a 300+ icon library, launching customer-impacting features that improved partner response rates, and stewarding mobile and web migrations. Trained in education and UX, she brings a user-centric lens to technical decisions and a knack for turning cross-functional collaboration into measurable product wins. Slightly caffeinated and organized, she pairs meticulous craftsmanship with practical delivery.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion, User Experience Design, Certificate of Completion, User Experience Design at General Assembly
Master’s Degree, Technology Integration Specialist, 4.0, Master’s Degree, Technology Integration Specialist, 4.0 at Southern New Hampshire University
Bachelor’s Degree, Elementary Education and Teaching, Bachelor’s Degree, Elementary Education and Teaching at Saint Anselm College
Master’s Degree, Computing in Education, Master’s Degree, Computing in Education at Teachers College of Columbia University
Contributions:63 PRs, 61 pushes, 16 branches in 16 days
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Jaclyn Sproat - Manager, Design System Engineering at Workday