Summary
John Macmenamin is a design systems leader and product-minded designer with 15+ years building cross-disciplinary teams, design systems, and user experiences for startups, Fortune 100s, and a FAANG organization. As founder of the Pegasus Design System—adopted by over 60,000 Figma users—and a former Design Architect at Facebook, he blends hands-on tooling knowledge (Figma, React, design tokens) with strategic product planning to simplify complex user journeys. He’s shipped coded component libraries, led global teams, and driven measurable outcomes like faster onboarding and accessibility improvements across large enterprises. Known for running community meetups and elevating design documentation into developer-ready systems, he pairs an engineer’s pragmatism with a marketer’s sense for adoption. Based in Alexandria, VA, he also has a history of founding agencies and shipping design-forward products that scale.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Graphic Design, Computer Science Graphic Design at Indian River State College