James Nash
Design System Engineer at Investec
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Nash is a Design System Engineer based in London with 15 years of experience building and scaling design systems and front-end architectures across finance, agency and product teams. He led design system strategy and operations at J.P. Morgan—helping Salt and the JPM UI Toolkit achieve broad adoption and measurable cost savings—and now drives design system work at Investec while editing the W3C Design Tokens format spec. Classically trained as a webmaster and originally a Symbian-era C++ engineer, he blends deep engineering craft with product thinking and hands-on UI polish. He has a track record of turning design patterns into scalable tooling, improving developer self-service and reducing support overhead through process and platform changes. Known for “slaying pixels,” he pairs a keen visual sensibility with pragmatic performance and accessibility improvements. His background in large enterprises and agency consulting gives him a rare ability to deliver both strategic design-system roadmaps and the code-level fixes that make them stick.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at German School Association - Deutsche Schule LondonMEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at University of Warwick
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Github Skills (52)
design-tokens10
parser10
fill10
serializer10
css10
specification10
eleventy9
metalsmith9
styles9
gravity9
svgr9
svg8
nunjucks8
sass8
gulp-plugin8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
c1rrus/cirrus.twiddles.com
Sep 2022 - Mar 2025
Cirrus's Realm - James Nash's personal website
Contributions:23 PRs, 30 pushes, 28 branches in 2 years 6 months
reactnextjsnashjames
cyberfinity/html-patterns
Apr 2017 - Apr 2023
HTML pattern library for Cyberfinity websites
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
cssfundamentalsstyleguideweb-developerpattern-library
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