Josh Compton is a Lead Frontend Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building design systems, developer tooling, and responsive React-based interfaces across startups and large enterprises. He specializes in design systems, accessibility, and monorepo tooling, pairing hands-on component library development (React/Next/Remix) with platform enablement to boost adoption and developer confidence. At Northwestern Mutual he led a ground-up redesign of a financial planning design system and later ran UI tools and enablement, and he now leads customer- and enterprise-facing dashboards at Cyphlens. Comfortable across the full stack with NodeJS and build tooling expertise (Webpack, monorepos, SCSS), he also teaches and mentors—running internal summits and producing engineering content. Based in Brooklyn, he balances pragmatic engineering leadership with a designer’s eye for UX and an affinity for beard-growing and strong coffee.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Professional Writing, Bachelor of Arts, Professional Writing at Michigan State University
Contributions:2 PRs, 35 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 1 month
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Josh Compton - Lead Frontend Software Engineer at Cyphlens