Joe Karasek
Lead Design Engineer at Nike
Gladstone, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJoe Karasek is a Lead Design Engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable design systems and bridging design and engineering at scale. Currently leading Nike’s Design Systems team, he drives vision, architecture, and adoption across Podium, Consumer, and Enterprise systems used by hundreds of products. He’s known for turning component libraries, theming strategies, and token-driven APIs into measurable business value—enabling fast, branded experiences for events like the Olympics and World Cup. Joe pairs hands-on frontend architecture and tooling expertise with mentorship and governance to sustain global collaboration and thousands of contributions. He also explores the intersection of AI and design systems, prototyping workflows that accelerate quality and reduce cost while advising director-level leadership. His background in environmental science and field leadership gives him a systems-thinking perspective that shapes pragmatic, user-centered platform decisions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Environmental Management and Science, Master of Environmental Management and Science at Portland State UniversityBachelor of Science Environmental Science, Bachelor of Science Environmental Science at Washington University in St. LouisCertificate of Web-app Development Professional Software Development, Certificate of Web-app Development Professional Software Development at Epicodus
Czech, Polish, German, English
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Github Skills (66)
ui-components10
bem10
itcss10
atomic-design10
react-component10
visual-styles10
lit-html10
monorepo10
decoupling10
pattern-lab10
preact10
twig10
drupal10
lerna10
web-components10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
joekarasek/joes-gulp-tasks
Mar 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:59 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
joekarasek/mazes
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
buildsmazes
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